Commission Regulation (EC) No 2496/2001 of 19 December 2001 providing for compensation to producer organisations for tuna delivered to the processing industry between 1 January and 31 March 2001
Date: 2001-12-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fishery product, monetary compensatory amount, processing industry, producer organisation, quantitative restriction, sea fish

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2496/2001

of 19 December 2001

providing for compensation to producer organisations for tuna delivered to the processing
industry between 1 January and 31 March 2001

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17
December 1999 on the common organisation of the market in
fishery and aquaculture products (1), and in particular Article
27(6) thereof,

(7)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

The compensatory allowance provided for in Article 27
of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 is to be granted under
certain conditions to Community tuna producer organ-
isations for quantities of tuna delivered to the processing
industry during the calendar quarter for which prices
had been recorded, where both the average quarterly
selling price recorded on the Community market and the
import price plus any applicable countervailing charge
were lower than 87 % of the Community producer price
for the product concerned.

An examination of the situation on the Community
market has shown that between 1 January and 31 March
2001 both the average quarterly selling price and the
import price as referred to in Article 27 of Regulation
(EC) No 104/2000 for skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito
(Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) pelamis) were lower than 87 % of
the Community producer price in force, as laid down in
Council Regulation (EC) No 2764/2000 (2).

Entitlement to the compensatory allowance should be
determined on the basis of sales covered by invoices
bearing a date falling within the quarter concerned and
which have been used to calculate the average monthly
selling price referred to in Article 4 of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 142/98 (3).

The level of the compensation provided for in Article
27(2) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 may not in any
case exceed either the difference between the triggering
threshold and the average selling price of the product in
question on the Community market or a flat-rate
amount equivalent to 12 % of that threshold.

The quantities on which compensation as provided for
in Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 is
payable may under no circumstances exceed the limits
laid down in paragraph 3 of that Article for the quarter
concerned.

The quantities of
stripe-bellied bonito
skipjack or
Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) pelamis) sold and delivered to the
processing industry established in the customs territory
the Community were higher during the quarter
of

(1) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 321, 19.12.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 17, 22.1.1998, p. 8.

concerned than the quantities sold and delivered during
the same quarter of the three previous fishing years.
Since those quantities exceed the limit set in Article
27(3) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000, the total quant-
ities of
those products on which compensation is
payable should therefore be limited.

In accordance with the ceilings laid down in Article
27(4) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the purpose
of calculating the allowance to be granted to each
producer organisation,
the quantities on which the
allowance is payable should be allocated among the
producer organisations concerned in proportion to the
quantities produced by them in the same quarter of the
1998, 1999 and 2000 fishing years.

(8)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The compensatory allowance provided for in Article 27 of
Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 shall be granted for the period
from 1 January to 31 March 2001 in respect of the following
products:

Product

(EUR/tonne)

Maximum allowance in accordance
with the first and second indents of
Article 27(2) of Regulation (EC) No
104/2000

Skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito
(Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) pelamis)

10

Article 2

The total quantities on which the allowance for these

1.
species is payable shall be:

Skipjack or
pelamis):

stripe-bellied bonito (Euthynnus

(Katsuwonus)
10 423,829 tonnes.

The allocation of the total quantity among the producer
in the Annex

2.
organisations concerned shall be as set out
hereto.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 19 December 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Allocation among producer organisations of quantities of tuna on which the compensatory allowance is payable
for the period from 1 January to 31 March 2001 in accordance with Article 27(4) of Regulation (EC) No
104/2000, broken down by compensation percentage band

Skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito
(Euthynnus (Katsuwonus palamis)

Quantities 100 % of which is
eligible for compensation
(first indent of Article 27(4))

Quantities 50 % of which is
eligible for compensation
(second indent of Article 27(4))

(tonnes)

Total quantities on which
compensation is payable
(first and second indents of
Article 27(4))

Opagac

Optuc

OP 42 (Can.)

Orthongel

Apasa

Madeira

4 704,347

4 100,371

0

208,802

0

0

0

208,116

0

1 202,193

0

0

4 704,347

4 308,487

0

1 410,995

0

0

EU — Total

9 013,520

1 410,309

10 423,829