Commission Regulation (EC) No 2595/2001 of 28 December 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 690/2001 on special support measures in the beef sector
Date: 2001-12-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, beef, carcase, health legislation, market support, purchase price

29.12.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 345/33

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2595/2001

of 28 December 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 690/2001 on special support measures in the beef sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2345/2001 (2), and in particular Article 38(2),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2001 of 3 April
2001 on special market support measures in the beef
sector (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2155/
2001 (4), has provided for a purchase scheme, through a
tendering procedure, of carcases from certain categories
of animals over 30 months. In the expectation that the
market difficulties which justified the said Regulation
would have been resolved by the end of the year 2001,
Annex III to that Regulation lays down that the last
tender was to be held on 10 December 2001.

Although the market situation for categories B and E
have improved satisfactorily, the situation for cows of
category D is still extremely serious. Furthermore, a
substantial number of cows which for reasons linked to
the beef crisis were not slaughtered in 2001 is expected
to be brought to the market in the first quarter of 2002.
In order to avoid a further collapse of the market for
cow meat,
it is necessary to provide an appropriate
support by way of a continuation for no more than
three more months of the purchase scheme laid down in
Regulation (EC) No 690/2001 with purchases not
exceeding 40 000 tonnes.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Beef and Veal,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 690/2001 is amended as follows:

1. In Article 1(1) the following subparagraph is added:

‘However:
— as from the 17th partial

invitation to tender on 7
January 2002 Member States shall not buy carcases or
half-carcases of categories B and E,

— total purchases under tenders held in 2002 may not

exceed 40 000 tonnes.’

2. In Article 12, second subparagraph, the words ‘until 31

December’ are deleted.

3. In Annex I the heading of the second column of trigger
prices is replaced by ‘1 July 2001 to 31 March 2002’.

4. In Annex III the following dates are added:

‘7 January 2002
21 January 2002
11 February 2002
25 February 2002
11 March 2002.’

Article 2

(3)

Due to the urgency of the measures this Regulation
should enter into force immediately.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 December 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 315, 1.12.2001, p. 29.
(3) OJ L 95, 5.4.2001, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 289, 6.11.2001, p. 4.