CELEX: 51989PC0660(49)
Language: en
Date: 1990-01-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) LAYING DOWN SPECIFIC MEASURES FOR THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN INTERVENTION THRESHOLDS IN THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES SECTOR FOR THE 1990/91 MARKETING YEAR

No C 49/76                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                       28. 2. 90
                                                               Proposal for a                           ^
                                               COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No . . .
                                                                   of . . .
                    laying down specific measures for the application of certain intervention thresholds in the fruit
                                           and vegetables sector for the 1990/91 marketing year
                                                               (90/C 49/49)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                                                      Article 1
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,                                                                   For the 1990/91 marketing year and for each product listed
                                                                            in Article 2, the following shall be fixed:
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal,
                                                                            1. for the period from the beginning of the 1990/91
 and in particular Article 234 (3) thereof,
                                                                                marketing year to 31 December 1990,
                                                                                — a threshold for the Community with the exception of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                                    Portugal,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,                        — a threshold for Portugal;
                                                                            2. for the period from 1 January 1991 to the end of the
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social                         1990/91 marketing year, a threshold for the
Committee,                                                                      Community.
Whereas Articles 16 (3a), 16a and 16b of Council Regulation                                            Article 2
(EEC) No 1035/72 on the common organization of the
market in fruit and vegetables ( J ), as last amended by                    1.    As regards the following products, the thresholds
Regulation (EEC) No . . . (2), introduce mechanisms for                    provided for in Article 1 shall be fixed in accordance with the
intervention thresholds; whereas, as regards Portugal, the                 methods of calculation laid down:
switchover to the second stage of accession in the fruit and
vegetables sector takes place on 1 January 1991, i.e. during               — for satsumas, Clementines, mandarins and nectarines, in
the 1990/91 marketing years for many products in the sector                    Article 16a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72,
in question; whereas specific detailes rules should therefore              — for peaches, oranges and lemons, in Article 1 of
be adopted for the application of the abovementioned                            Regulation (EEC) No 2240/88,
mechanisms;
                                                                           — for apples, in         Article   1   of   Regulation   (EEC)
                                                                               No 1121/89,
Whereas such specific detailed rules consist in fixing
thresholds for the Community with the exception of Portugal                — for cauliflowers, in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC)
on the one hand and for Portugal on the other hand until 31                    No 1121/89.
December 1990, and then thresholds for the Community as a
whole for the period from 1 January 1991 to the end of the                 2.     As regards tomatoes, the thresholds provided for in
marketing years of the products in question;                               Article 1 shall be:
                                                                           — for the Community with the exception of Portugal,
Whereas those thresholds should be fixed in accordance with                    574 500 tonnes,
the calculation methods already introduced, as the case may
                                                                           — for Portugal, 10 % of the average production intended to
be, by Article 16a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, by
                                                                               be consumed fresh in the last five marketing years for
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2240/88 (3) or by Council
                                                                               which data are available.
Regulation (EEC) No 1121 / 89 (4) on the introduction of an
intervention threshold for apples and cauliflowers;
                                                                                                      Article 3
Whereas, to assess any overrun in the abovementioned
thresholds, the latter should be added to the quantities                   Where the sum of the quantities of one of the products
bought in in view of the incorporation of the Portuguese                   referred to in Article 2 bought in in Portugal on the one hand
market from 1 January 1991,                                                and in the Community with the exception of Portugal on the
                                                                           other hand pursuant to Articles 15, 15a, 15b, 19 and 19a
(J) OJNoL 118,20. 5. 1972, p. 1.                                           of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 during the 1990/91
(2) See page . . of this Official Journal.                                 marketing year exceeds the sum of the intervention
(3) OJNoL 198,26.7. 1988, p. 9.                                            thresholds fixed for that product, for all or part of that
(4) OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 21.                                       marketing year, the basic and buying-in prices fixed for that
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product for the 1991/92 marketing year shall be reduced by                                    Article 4
1 % for every:
—   3 100 tonnes for satsumas,                                      The provisions for applying this Regulation and in particular
—   8 100 tonnes for Clementines,                                   the thresholds shall be adopted in accordance with the
—   3 000 tonnes for mandarins,                                     procedure provided for in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC)
—   3 000 tonnes for nectarines,                                    No 1035/72.
—   23 000 tonnes for peaches,
—   37 700 tonnes for oranges,
—   11 200 tonnes for lemons,
                                                                                              Article 5
—   79 600 tonnes for apples,
—   18 700 tonnes for cauliflowers,
—   30 800 tonnes for tomatoes,                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                    following its publication in the Official Journal of the
by which the intervention threshold is exceeded.                    European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, . . .
                                                                                       For the Council