Commission Regulation (EC) No 104/2007 of 2 February 2007 fixing the aid for tomatoes for processing for the 2007/08 marketing year
Date: 2007-02-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, food processing, fruit vegetable, marketing, production aid

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 104/2007

of 2 February 2007

fixing the aid for tomatoes for processing for the 2007/08 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and
Romania,

(4)

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania,
and in particular Article 41 thereof,

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,

(5)

Whereas:

for

Article 3(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1535/2003 of 29 August 2003 laying down detailed
rules
the implementation of Council Regulation
for
regards
(EC) No 2201/96 as
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

Commission Regulation (EC) No 416/2004 of 5 March
2004 laying down transitional measures for the appli-
cation of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and Regu-
lation (EC) No 1535/2003 by reason of the accession of
the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania,
Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the
European Union (3).

The quantity of tomatoes processed under the aid scheme
to be considered when examining compliance with the
national and Community thresholds is 1 705 561 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
2007/08 marketing year must
thus be adjusted in
relation to the level set in Article 4(2) of Regulation
in accordance with Article 5(2) and
(EC) No 2201/96,
(4) of that Regulation and Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 416/2004.

to Bulgaria

The mechanism for examining compliance with the
national processing thresholds provided for in Article 5
of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 is not
immediately
applicable
and Romania. Transitional
measures for its application should therefore be laid
down. For
for which
the 2007/08 marketing year,
there are no data which can be used to examine
compliance with the national and Community thresholds
for processing tomatoes in those Member States, and as a
precautionary measure, provision should be made for a
prior reduction in the aid,
the
thresholds have not been exceeded at the end of that
marketing year.

to be reimbursed if

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.

(6)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the Member States which joined the Union on 1 May
2004, compliance with the national and Community
thresholds for processing tomatoes is examined on the
basis of the quantities actually aided during the 2004/05
and 2005/06 marketing years and of the quantities for
which aid applications were submitted for the 2006/07
in accordance with Article 4 of
marketing year,

For the 2007/08 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;

(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).

(b) EUR 27,76 per tonne in Italy;

(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).

(1)

(2)

(3)

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(c)

in Spain:

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

whole peeled tomatoes,

(ii) EUR 12,75 per tonne for tomatoes intended for other

processing;

(d) EUR 25,88 per tonne in Bulgaria and Romania.

Article 2

1.
If the Community threshold is not exceeded during exam-
ination of compliance with the threshold for the 2007/08
marketing year, an additional amount equivalent to 25 % of
the aid fixed in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96
shall be paid in Bulgaria and Romania after the 2007/08
marketing year.

If the Community threshold is exceeded, or if it is not
2.
exceeded or exceeded by less than 25 % in Bulgaria or Romania,
an additional amount shall be paid in those Member States after
the 2007/08 marketing year.

The additional amount referred to in paragraph 1 shall be fixed
on the basis of
the actual amount by which the national
threshold concerned is exceeded, up to a maximum of 25 %
of the aid fixed in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96.

3.
Examination of compliance with the national processing
thresholds for Bulgaria and Romania shall be based, for the
2007/08 marketing year, on the quantities for which aid appli-
cations are submitted for the 2007/08 marketing year.

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 2 February 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission