CELEX: 31996R0980
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-31 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 980/96 of 31 May 1996 reducing the basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers and lemons for June 1996 as a result of the overrun in the intervention thresholds fixed for the 1995/96 marketing year

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                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 980/96
                                                          of 31 May 1996
                      reducing the basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers and lemons for June
                      1996 as a result of the overrun in the intervention thresholds fixed for the
                                                      1995/96 marketing year
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       overruns in the intervention thresholds amounting to
                                                                      21 933 tonnes of cauliflowers and 121 402 tonnes of
                                                                      lemons;
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
    Community,                                                        Whereas it ensues from the foregoing that the basic and
                                                                      buying-in prices for cauliflowers and lemons fixed by
                                                                      Council Regulation (EC) No 944/96 Q for the 1996/97
                                                                      marketing year must be reduced by 1 % in the case of
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72              cauliflowers and 10 % in the case of lemons;
   of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the
   market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
   Commission Regulation (EC) No 1363/95 (2), and in par­             in accordance with the opinion of the Management
   ticular Article 16b (4) thereof,                                   Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
   Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1111 /95 (3)
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   fixes the intervention thresholds for the 1995/96 mar­
   keting year at 63 800 tonnes for cauliflowers and 361 600
   tonnes for lemons;
                                                                                              Article 1
                                                                     The basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers and
  Whereas, pursuant to Article 16a (1 ) of Regulation (EEC)          lemons for the period 1 to 30 June 1996 as fixed by
   No 1035/72 and Article 2 (1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC)         Regulation (EC) No 944/96 are hereby reduced by 1 % in
   No 2240/88 of 19 July 1988 fixing, for peaches, lemons            the case of cauliflowers and 10 % in the case of lemons
  and oranges, the rules for applying Article 1 6b of Regula­        and shall be as follows:
  tion (EEC) No 1035/72 on the common organization of
  the market in fruit and vegetables (4), as last amended by                                                         (ECU/100 kg)
  Regulation (EC) No 1327/95 (% and Article 2 (2) and (3)
  of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1121 /89 of 27 April                                              Basic price   Buying-in price
  1989 on the introduction of an intervention threshold for
  apples and cauliflowers (% as last amended by Regulation
  (EC) No 1327/95, where intervention measures taken
  during a marketing year in respect of cauliflowers and            Cauliflowers                     29,35            12,72
  lemons relate to quantities in excess of the intervention
                                                                    Lemons                           46,14            27,08
 thresholds fixed for those products for that marketing
 year, the basic and buying-in prices fixed for those
 products for the following marketing year are to be
 reduced by 1 % for each 20 200 tonnes by which the
 threshold is exceeded in the case of cauliflowers and              These prices refer respectively to :
  11 200 tonnes in the case of lemons;
                                                                    — packed trimmed cauliflowers of quality class I,
                                                                    — packed lemons of quality class I, size 53 to 62 milli­
                                                                        metres .
 Whereas, according to information provided by the
 Member States, intervention measures taken in the
 Community in respect of the 1995/96 marketing year                 These prices do not reflect the cost of the packaging in
 involved 85 733       tonnes of cauliflowers and 483 002           which the product is presented.
tonnes of lemons; whereas the Commission has recorded
                                                                                             Article 2
(')  OJ  No L   118,  20. 5. 1972, p. 1.
(2   OJ  No L   132,  16. 6. 1995, p. 8.
(3)  OJ  No L   111 , 18. 5. 1995, p. 9.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1996.
(<)  OJ  No L   198,  26. 7. 1988, p. 9.
0    OJ  No L  128 ,  13. 6. 1995, p. 8.
M OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 21 .                                 0 OJ No L 129, 30. 5. 1996, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 31 May 1996.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission