Commission Regulation (EC) No 239/2007 of 6 March 2007 laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the requirements for communications in the banana sector
Date: 2007-03-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural production, common organisation of markets, disclosure of information, marketing, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 239/2007

of 6 March 2007

laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the
requirements for communications in the banana sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Article 1

1. Member States shall communicate to the Commission in
respect of each reporting period the following:

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in
bananas (1), and in particular Article 29a thereof,

(a)

the quantity of bananas produced in the Community which
are marketed:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The common organisation of the market in bananas has
been substantially amended with effect from 1 January
2007 by Council Regulation (EC) No 2013/2006 of 19
December 2006 amending Regulations (EEC) No 404/93,
(EC) No 1782/2003 and (EC) No 247/2006 as regards
the banana sector.

it

communication of

such information by

In particular the rules dealing with the compensatory aid
For monitoring the
scheme have been abolished.
operation of
is however
the banana market,
necessary for the Commission to continue to receive
information on the production and marketing of
bananas produced in the Community. Rules covering
the
the
Member States should be laid down. Such communi-
cations
should be comparable with the information
communicated under the previous regime, whilst at the
far as possible. The
same time being simplified as
provisions on such communications set out in Article
2(1)(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2014/2005
of 9 December 2005 on licences under the arrangements
for importing bananas into the Community in respect of
bananas released into free circulation at the common
customs tariff rate of duty (2) being superseded, should
therefore be deleted. Regulation (EC) No 2014/2005
should therefore be amended.

(i) in their region of production;

(ii) outside their region of production;

(b) the average selling prices on local markets of green bananas
produced in the Community which are marketed in their
region of production;

(c)

the average selling prices for green bananas at the stage of
delivery at first port of unloading (goods not unloaded) in
respect of bananas produced in the Community which are
marketed in the Community outside
region of
production;

their

(d) forecasts of the data referred to in point (a), (b) and (c) for

the two subsequent reporting periods.

2.

The regions of production shall be:

(a)

the Canary Islands;

(b) Guadeloupe;

(c) Martinique;

(3)

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

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2013/2006 (OJ L 384, 29.12.2006, p. 13).

(2) OJ L 324, 10.12.2005, p. 3. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 566/2006 (OJ L 99, 7.4.2006, p. 6).

(d) Madeira, the Azores and the Algarve;

(e) Crete and Lakonia;

(f) Cyprus.

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3.

The reporting periods for a calendar year shall be:

The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be sent

4.
via the electronic system indicated by the Commission.

(a)

January to April inclusive;

(b) May to August inclusive;

(c) September to December inclusive.

Article 2

Point (d) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2014/2005 is
deleted.

The communications for each reporting period shall be made at
the latest by the 15th day of the second month following the
reporting period.

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

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 6 March 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission