CELEX: 31968R0988
Language: en
Date: 1968-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 988/68 of the Council of 15 July 1968 on the financing of intervention expenditure and refunds in respect of fruit and vegetables

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NoL 169/8                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                    18.7.68
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 988/68 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                         of 15 July 1968
                   on the financing of intervention expenditure and refunds in respect of fruit and vegetables
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            responsibility by the Fund should be limited to compen­
                                                                    sation granted for products withdrawn from the market
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              which have been put to those uses :
Economic Community :
                                                                    Whereas , in order to calculate the amount reimbursed by
Having regard to Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC 1                  the Fund in respect of compensation granted by Member
of 5 February 1964 on the conditions for granting aid               States to producer organizations in pursuance of
from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guaran­                 Article 6 (2) of Regulation No 159/66/EEC, account
tee Fund, and in particular Articles 2 ( 1 ) and 5 (2)              should be taken of the total amount of receipts, if any,
thereof;
                                                                    obtained by such organizations by means of the products
                                                                    withdrawn from the market ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission :
                                                                    Whereas, since the fourth subparagraph of Article 12(4)
Whereas, in order to apply the method known as the                  of Regulation No 159/66/EEC provides for the calcula­
basic products method referred to in Article 2 of Regula­           tion of refunds for Member States other than the Italian
tion No 17/64/EEC to the reimbursement of the re­                   Republic , detailed rules should be laid down for reim­
funds on exports to third countries for the period 1 Janu­          bursing the expenditure borne by that Member State:
ary to 30 June 1967. the basic products for the market in
fruit and vegetables should be determined :                          Whereas , since refunds calculated at a flat rate should
                                                                    not exceed the actual expenditure borne by Member
Whereas in this market the import charge is calculated              States , the factors involved in calculating the actual ex­
for all products according to individual criteria and not           penditure' should be determined.
in relation to the import charge for another product :
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12(2) of Council Regula­
tion No 159/66/EEC 2 of 25 October 1966 laying down
additional provisions for the common organization of                                          A rticle 1
the market in fruit - and vegetables , the actions arising          For the purposes of the common organization of the
from the application of Articles 6 and 7 of that Regula­            market in fruit and vegetables each of the products listed
tion are interventions on the domestic market the aim
                                                                    in Annexes II and III to Regulation No 159/66/EEC
and (operation of which is identical with that of refunds           shall be considered to be a basic product .
on exports to third countries within the meaning of
Article 5(1) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC ;
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Whereas, in accordance witlvArticle 5 ( 2) of Regulation
No 17/64/EEC. detailed rules should be laid down for                The financial compensation provided for in Article 6 of
granting aid from the Guarantee Section of the Fund for              Regulation No 159/66/EEC shall be borne by the
those interventions which have been the financial respon­           Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guid­
sibility of the Community since 1 January 1967:                     ance and Guarantee Fund only :
                                                                    - in so far as the products benefiting from such compen­
Whereas the uses which may be made of products which                    sation are put to one of the uses described in the
Member States have agreed to buy in must be deter­                      provisions adopted in pursuance of Article 7 (4) of the
mined in accordance with Article 7 ( 4) of Regulation No                abovementioned Regulation :
 159/66/EEC ; whereas the benefits of the assumption of             - up to the amount resulting from application of the
                                                                        withdrawal price to the quantity of products with­
                                                                        drawn from the market, that amount being reduced by
1 OJ No 34.27.2. 1964. p. 586/64.                                       the total net amount of receipts , if any. obtained by
2 OJ No 192,27.10.1966. p. 3286/66.                                     means of those products .
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Up to an amount of 40 million units of account per ac­              Under the terms of the fifth subparagraph of Article
counting period, the amount of the refund of expenditure             12(4) of Regulation No 1'59/66/EEC. 'actual expendi­
borne by the Italian Republic for the operations provided           ture borne by Member States means :
for in Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation No 159/66/EEC                 - the amount of financial compensation granted to pro­
shall be determined according to the same method as                     ducer organizations , calculated in accordancc with
that laid down for the other Member States in the fourth
                                                                        the provisions of Article 6 of Regulation No 159/66/
and fifth subparagraphs of Article 12(4) of that Regula­                 EEC . and Article 2 of this Regulation :
tion , the buying-in price to be taken into account for cal­
culating such amount being that fixed by the Italian                - the sums assigned to payment for products bought in
Republic in accordance with the provisions of Article 8                accordance with Article 7 of Regulation No 159/66/
of that Regulation.                                                      EEC . less the net amount of receipts, if any. obtained
                                                                       by means of those..products.
If. for the same accounting period , the expenditure borne                                     A rticle 5
by the Italian Republic for the operations provided for in          The bodies responsible in each Member State for pay
Article 6 and 7 of Regulation No 159/66/EEC results                 ment of the intervention expenditure arising from the
in the reimbursement of an amount of more than 40 mil­              application of Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation No 159/66/
lion units of account, and if the amount of the expendi­            EEC shall be obliged to keep until 30 June of the year
ture of the five other Member States to be reimbursed               following that during which the Commission decided on
remains at less than 20 million units of account, the               aid from the Guarantee Section of the Fund :
reimbursement of the additional expenditure borne by
the Italian Republic shall be effected , within the limits of       - proof of the required inspections for quantity and
the available portion of the 20 million units of account:               quality :
in accordancc with the terms laid down for the other                - proof of the use made of the products which were the
Member States in the fourth and fifth subparagraphs of                  subject of interventions within the meaning of Articles
Article 1 2 (4) of the abovementioned Regulation.                       6 and 7 of that Regulation .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States­
               Done at Brussels . 15JuIv 1%S .
                                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                                    The President
                                                                                                     G.SHDATI