Commission Regulation (EC) No 210/2006 of  7 February 2006  fixing the aid for tomatoes for processing for the 2006/07 marketing year
Date: 2006-02-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, food processing, fruit vegetable, marketing, vegetable product

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Official Journal of the European Union

8.2.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 210/2006

of 7 February 2006

fixing the aid for tomatoes for processing for the 2006/07 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

the 2004/05 marketing year and the quantities for which
aid applications for the 2005/06 marketing year were
submitted.

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,

Whereas:

for

Article 3(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1535/2003 of 29 August 2003 laying down detailed
the implementation of Council Regulation
rules
(EC) No 2201/96 as
for
regards
products processed from fruit and vegetables (2) stipulates
that the Commission is to publish the amount of the aid
for tomatoes for processing before 31 January.

the aid scheme

(4)

The quantity of tomatoes processed under the aid scheme
to be considered when examining compliance with the
national and Community thresholds is 978 544 tonnes
above the Community threshold. In the case of those
Member States which have exceeded their processing
threshold, the aid for tomatoes for processing for the
thus be adjusted in
2006/07 marketing year must
relation to the level set in Article 4(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 2201/96,
in accordance with Article 5(2) and
(4) of that Regulation and Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 416/2004.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vege-
tables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

For the Member States of the Community as constituted
on 30 April 2004, compliance with the national and
Community thresholds for processing tomatoes referred
to in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 is
examined on the basis of the quantities aided in the
three preceding marketing years for which definitive
data are available for all the Member States in question.

Article 1

For the 2006/07 marketing year, the aid for tomatoes under
Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 shall be:

(a) EUR 34,50 per tonne in the Czech Republic, Greece, France,
Cyprus, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal, and Slovakia;

Pursuant to Article 4 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 accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Cyprus,
Poland,
to the European Union (3),
Slovenia
compliance with national and Community thresholds
for tomato processing in the case of the Member States
which acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004 is
examined on the basis of the quantities actually aided in

Latvia,
and Slovakia

Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,

(b) EUR 30,43 per tonne in Italy;

(c)

in Spain:

(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 Regu-

lation (EC) No 1663/2005 (OJ L 267, 12.10.2005, p. 22).

(3) OJ L 68, 6.3.2004, p. 12. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 550/2005 (OJ L 93, 12.4.2005, p. 3).

(i) EUR 34,50 per tonne for tomatoes for processing into

whole peeled tomatoes,

(ii) EUR 23,35 per tonne for tomatoes intended for other

processing.

(1)

(2)

(3)

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 7 February 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission