Commission Regulation (EC) No 2149/2002 of 2 December 2002 on the payment of a supplement to the advances on the compensatory aid in the banana sector for 2002
Date: 2002-12-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU production, aid to agriculture, marketing, tropical fruit

3.12.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 326/11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2149/2002

of 2 December 2002

on the payment of a supplement to the advances on the compensatory aid in the banana sector for
2002

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in
bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2587/
2001 (2), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

No 1858/93. This supplementary payment should be
conditional on the lodging of a security in accordance
with Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93.

(4)

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 471/2001 (4), lays down
detailed rules for applying Regulation (EEC) No 404/93
as regards the aid scheme to compensate for loss of
income from marketing in the banana sector. Article 4
of that Regulation lays down the conditions for paying
the advances on the compensatory aid.

The unit amount of each advance on the aid to be deter-
mined subsequently for 2002 was set at EUR 19,85 per
100 kilograms in Commission Regulation (EC) No 932/
2002 of 31 May 2002 fixing the compensatory aid for
bananas produced and marketed in the Community in
2001, the time limit for payment of the balance of the
aid and the unit value of the advances for 2002 (5).

To take account of the difficult financial situation in
which Community banana producers find themselves as
a result of the marked deterioration of the Community
market, provision should be made for the payment of a
supplement to the advances to be paid for the quantities
marketed in the Community from 1 January to 31
October 2002, without prejudice to the level of compen-
satory aid to be set subsequently under Article 12 of
Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 and under Regulation (EEC)

Article 1

shall pay a supplement

Producer Member States
to the
advances on the compensatory aid provided for in Article 12
of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93, for 2002, of EUR 2,84 per
100 kilograms, for the quantities marketed in the Community
from 1 January to 31 October 2002.

The supplement to the advances shall be paid for marketed
quantities for which applications for advances on the compen-
satory aid have been made for 2002.

Applications for payment of the supplement to the advance
shall be accompanied by proof that a security of EUR 1,42 per
100 kilograms has been lodged.

Payment shall be made within two months of the entry into
force of this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following its publication 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, 2 December 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 170, 13.7.1993, p. 5.
(4) OJ L 67, 9.3.2001, p. 52.
(5) OJ L 144, 1.6.2002, p. 20.