CELEX: 51988PC0120(51)
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-05
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 426/86 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN PRODUCTS PROCESSED FROM FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

No C 139/60                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  30. 5. 88
               Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 426/86 on the common
                          organization of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables
                                                         (88/C 139/51)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           should accordingly also be made, for such processed dried
                                                                   grapes, for the determination of an adequate percentage
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   taking account of quantities not to be processed,
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,                                      Article 1
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social            Regulation (EEC) No 426/86 is hereby amended as
Committee,                                                         follows:
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 426/              1. The following paragraph 2a is inserted in Article 3 :
86 (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3909/
87 (2), lays down a system of production aid applicable to             '2a. In the case of dried grapes of the Moscatel
certain varieties of dried grapes;                                     varieties, the contracts referred to in paragraph 1 shall
                                                                       in principle be concluded between recognized pro-
Whereas the disposal of dried grapes of the Moscatel                   ducers' groups or associations thereof and processors or
varieties is liable to be disturbed in Spain and Portugal by           processors' groups and associations thereof.'
competition from sultanas and currants qualifying for
production aid in the Community; whereas provision                 2. Article 6(2) is replaced by the following:
should accordingly be made for their inclusion in the
system of aid under the market organization for products               '2. In the case of sultanas, currants and dried grapes of
processed from fruit and vegetables;                                   the Moscatel varieties, the aid shall be paid only to
                                                                       processors who have not processed and subsequently do
Whereas, with a view to concentrating supply for the sound             not process for commercial purposes a quantity of dried
management of production, provision should accordingly                 grapes of those varieties equal to a percentage, to be
be made for contracts relating to the supply of the raw                determined, of the quantities purchased. Such quantities
material to be drawn up in principle between recognized                not processed shall not be eligible for aid.'
producers' groups or associations thereof and processors or
processors' groups or associations thereof;                        3. In part A of Annex I, 'ex 0806 20 Sultanas and currants'
                                                                       is replaced by 'ex 0806 20 Sultanas, currants and dried
Whereas account should also be taken, for dried grapes of              grapes of the Moscatel varieties'.
the Moscatel varieties, of commercial practices in force for
the other varieties of dried grapes qualifying for aid,                                       Article 2
according to which part of production must be discarded so
that the finished product is of satisfactory quality having        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
regard to its specific characteristics; whereas provision          following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                   European Communities.
0) OJ No L 49, 27. 2. 1986, p. 1.                                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
(2) OJ No L 370, 30. 12. 1987, p. 20.                              applicable in all Member States.