Commission Regulation (EC) No 1108/2004 of 11 June 2004 fixing the aid for pears for processing under Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 for the 2004/05 marketing year
Date: 2004-06-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, enlargement of the Union, fruit product, pip fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1108/2004

of 11 June 2004

fixing the aid for pears for processing under Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 for the 2004/05
marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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), and in particular
Article 6(1) thereof,

accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia
to the European Union (3) set the aid applicable in the
new Member States for pears for processing during
marketing year 2004/05.

(4)

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

Whereas:

For the 2004/05 marketing year the aid for pears provided for
in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 shall be:

(1)

(2)

Article 3(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1535/2003 of 29 August 2003 laying down detailed
for applying Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as
rules
regards the aid scheme for products processed from
fruit and vegetables (2) stipulates that the Commission is
to publish the amount of the aid for pears after verifying
compliance with the thresholds fixed in Annex III to
Regulation (EC) No 2201/96.

The average quantity of pears processed under the aid
scheme over the previous three marketing years is above
the Community threshold. The aid to be applied for the
2004/05 marketing year in Member States that have not
overrun their national threshold must therefore be the
in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No
amount
2201/96. In each of the other Member States that rate
must be reduced according to the individual threshold
overrun as adjusted by allocation of
the unprocessed
quantities as specified in the third subparagraph of
Article 5(2) of that Regulation.

set

(3)

Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 416/2004
of 5 March 2004 laying down transitional measures for
the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96
and Regulation (EC) No 1535/2003 by reason of the

— 159,33 per tonne in Greece,

— 130,09 per tonne in Spain,

— 161,70 per tonne in France,

— 119,71 per tonne in Italy,

— 161,70 per tonne in the Netherlands,

— 161,70 per tonne in Austria,

— 161,70 per tonne in Portugal.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 386/2004 (OJ L 64, 2.3.2004,
p. 25).

(2) OJ L 218, 30.8.2003, p. 14. Regulation as last amended by Regul-

ation (EC) No 444/2004 (OJ L 72, 11.3.2004, p. 54).

It shall apply for the 2004/05 marketing year.

(3) OJ L 68, 6.3.2004, p. 12.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 June 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission