Commission Regulation (EC) No 175/2002 of 30 January 2002 setting an aid supplement for tomatoes for processing for the 2001/02 marketing year and the aid for the 2002/03 marketing year under Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96
Date: 2002-01-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, fruit vegetable, production aid, vegetable product

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 175/2002

of 30 January 2002

setting an aid supplement for tomatoes for processing for the 2001/02 marketing year and the aid
for the 2002/03 marketing year under Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(6)

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the markets in
processed fruit and vegetable products (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1239/2001 (2), and in particular Article
6(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Article 2(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 449/
2001 of 2 March 2001 laying down detailed rules for
applying Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as regards
the aid scheme for products processed from fruit and
vegetables (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1343/
2001 (4), stipulates in particular that the Commission is
to publish the amount of aid for tomatoes after verifica-
tion of compliance with the thresholds fixed in Annex
III to Regulation (EC) No 2201/96.

The quantity of tomatoes covered by aid applications for
the 2001/02 marketing year as notified by the Member
States in accordance with Article 23(2)(a) of Regulation
(EC) No 449/2001 is above the Community threshold.

Article 5(3)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 lays down
that for the 2001/02 marketing year the aid fixed in
Article 4(2) of
that Regulation is to be reduced to
EUR 31,36/tonne and that a supplement is to be paid
after the end of the marketing year in the Member States
that have not exceeded their threshold by more than
10 %. Point (b) of that Article lays down that for the
2002/03 marketing year, the overrun of the processing
threshold is to be calculated on the basis of the quantity
supplied for processing with aid during the 2001/02
marketing year.

Spain has had recourse to Article 5(4) of Regulation (EC)
No 2201/96 for the 2001/02 marketing year and has
informed the Commission of the quantities of the two
sub-thresholds concerned in accordance with Article
23(1) of Regulation (EC) No 449/2001.

The aid to be applied for the 2001/02 and 2002/03
marketing years in the Member States that have not
exceeded their threshold is the amount fixed in Article
4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and the supplement
to be paid for the 2001/02 marketing year bridges the

difference between that amount and the amount referred
to in the second indent of Article 5(3)(a) of that Regula-
tion.

In the other Member States, the aid to be applied for the
2001/02 and 2002/03 marketing years is the amount
fixed in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96
reduced by the threshold overruns, or by the sub-
threshold overruns in the case of Spain, following the
distribution, in accordance with and the third subpara-
graph of Article 5(2) and the third subparagraph of
Article 5(4) of that Regulation, of the quantities or sub-
quantities still available and the supplement to be paid
for the 2001/02 marketing year bridges the difference
between that amount and the amount of aid referred to
in the second indent of Article 5(3)(a) of that Regulation.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Processed Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2001/02 marketing year the aid supplement
1.
referred to in the second indent of Article 5(3)(a) of Regulation
(EC) No 2201/96 shall be:

— EUR 3,14/tonne in Greece, France and Portugal,

— EUR 2,70/tonne in Italy,

— EUR 3,14/tonne in Spain for

tomatoes

intended for

processing into whole peeled tomatoes,

— EUR 0,10/tonne in Spain for

tomatoes

intended for

processing into other tomato products.

For the 2002/03 marketing year the aid referred to in

2.
Article 2 of the said Regulation shall be:

— EUR 34,50/tonne in Greece, France and Portugal,

— EUR 34,06/tonne in Italy,

— EUR 34,50/tonne in Spain for

tomatoes

intended for

processing into whole peeled tomatoes,

— EUR 31,46/tonne in Spain for

tomatoes

intended for

processing into other tomato products.

Article 2

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 171, 26.6.2001, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 64, 6.3.2001, p. 16.
(4) OJ L 181, 4.7.2001, p. 16.

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following 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, 30 January 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission