CELEX: 51983PC0665
Language: en
Date: 1983-11-15
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1035/72 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

No C 324/6                       Official Journal of the European Communities                              29.11. 83
                                                         II
                                                 (Preparatory Acts)
                                           COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 on the
                             common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables
                                                COM(83) 665 final
                        (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 18 November 1983)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                  permitted to grant exemptions to cover situations
COMMUNITIES;                                                 which may arise on their territory,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 43 thereof,
                                                                                      Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,           Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 is hereby amended as
                                                             follows:
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parl-
iament,                                                      1. The following subparagraph is hereby added to
                                                                Article 3 (1):
Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 O , as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                 'Member States may exempt from the requirement
No . . . defines inter alia the circumstances under             to comply with quality standards or with certain of
which fruit and vegetables marketed within a Member             the provisions thereof:
State are exempt from quality standards;
                                                                — products displayed or offered for sale, sold,
Whereas this exemption covers products marketed by                  delivered or marketed in any other manner by
the grower on wholesale markets situated in the                     the grower on wholesale markets, in particular
production area and products consigned from                         on producer markets, situated in the
wholesale markets to preparation and packing                        production area,
stations or storage stations situated in the same
production area; whereas, however, Member States                — products consigned from wholesale markets to
may adopt more restrictive national provisions;                     preparation and packing stations or storage
                                                                    stations situated in the same production area.'
Whereas experience has shown that the above
exemption means that large quantities of fruit and           2. Article 3 (2) (c) is deleted.
vegetables do not have to comply with standards;
whereas such a situation is contrary to the objectives
pursued by the Community rules on quality                                             Article 2
standards; whereas, to overcome this difficulty, the
products in question should be required to comply           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1984.
with the standards but Member States should be
                                                            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
O OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1.                            directly applicable in all Member States.