CELEX: 51976PC0581
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-10
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EEC) N° 2511/69 laying down special measures for improving the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                         COM(76) 581 final.
                                         Brussels . 10 November 1976.
                  PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
 amending Regulation (EEC ) Kb 2511/69 laying down special measures for
    improving the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit *
             ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 COM ( 76) 581 final *
 ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 1.            Regulation ( EEC No 2511 /69 lays down special measures for
 improving the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit .
               With respect to production , the Regulation mainly provides aid
 for replanting existing orange and mandarin groves with other varieties in
 renponoo to consumer demand .
               This aid io supplemented for the email holdings (a phenomenon which
concerns almost exclusively the Italian restructuration plan) by special additional
aid to offset part of the losses resulting from replanting.
 2.            After one year of application of the reconvertion plan it has "been obser­
ved that the 5 hectares limit stipulated in the first indent of Article 4 ( 1 ) of the
 abovementioned Regulation tend3 to deny aid to growers who cultivate a larger
 area with much marginal land in an extensive manner and derive less income from:
  it    than is obtained from 2 hectares of orange and mandarin groves .
               The condition in the second indent of Article 4 » that the income
 obtained by the grower from the holding shall not exceed the income derived
 from 2 hectares cf orange and mandarin trees is now totally inadequate , totally-
  inadequate , thus the minimum revenue from a holding must bo increased to compenr-
  sate for the increase in the c03t of living.             Consequently , it has
 become ensential to extend the limit so that growers for whom the need for
 additional aid has become all the more acute duo to their precarious economio
 situation are not denied aid and do not abandon the work of replanting.
               The condition laid down in the third indent of Article 4 (0 "that
 " at least half the area used for growing orange and mandarin trees is replanted
 at one time M also needs to be amended .
 3.             In view of the above the Commission proposes to amend the criteria
 laid down in Article 4 of Council Regulation No 2511 /69       9 December 19^9 »
 by aboliuhing the restrictions in the first indent of paragraph 1 , by replacing
 in the second indent the income derived from 2 hectares of orange and mandarin
 trees by the income derived from 4 hectares , and lastly in the third indent by
 changing 5 &?° of the area to 40% of the area under orange and mandarin "treor*.
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            Adoption of this a/nendment would not entail any extra charge on
the Community budget and would enable the objective to be achieved in
accordance with the spirit of the Regulation.
 ---pagebreak---                PROPOSAL FOR COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
amending Regulation ( EEC ) NO 2511 /69         DOWN special measures for improving
the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit
                                      THE COUNCIL OF T1IE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
                                      Having regard to tho Treaty establishing "the
                                      European Economic Community , and in particular
                                      Article 43 thereof ,
                                      Having regard to tho proposal from the Commission ,
                                      Having regard to the Opinion of the European
                                      Parliament ,
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 251T-/69 °f 9 December 19^9 laying down
special measures for improving the production and marketing of Community
citrus fruit       as last a/iiended by Regulation (EEC ) No 793/76^ \ provides
for additional aid to email growers to offset part of the loss of income
entailed by replanting ;
Whereas experience has shown that the conditions for granting this additional aid
unduly limit the number of its recipients ;
Whereas in order to take better account of the sp.ecial situation of holdings in
certain regions of the Community and of         "trend of non-agricultural incomes
compared with agricultural incomes and to enable certain growers with low incomes
to receive the aid , the conditions for granting this additional aid should be relaxed ,
                                                                                 -A
 1 ) OJ No 318 , 18.12.1969 , p. 1
 2 ) OJ No 93 , 8.4.1976 . p. 1
 ---pagebreak---                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION »
Article 1
                                           t
         The first subparagraph of Article 4 ( 1 ) is hereby amended to read
as follows) :
"The aid referred to in Article 1 ( 2 ) shajLl be paid to growors for whom
oranges and mandarins are their main orop , on condition that :
– the income derived from their holding does not exceed
  the inoome derived from four hectares of orange and mandarin trees ,
– at le£«3t 40% of the area used for growing orange and mandarin trees is
  replanted at one time ,
– an area of at least 20 ares is replanted ."
Article 2
        This Regulation shall enter into foroe on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities •
        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and direotly
applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,                           For the Council
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                                FINANCIAL                STAT ECVîS i'JT                             1, jarjc.nirt.rw ^wwaww
        1 . mir.iTT uns: coiicavrf.D                     Article 893
         2 . action « p rOpo0od Council Regulation modifying Regulation 2511/ 69/SSC coacorain/?
                          production and marketing improvements in tho Citrus Fruit Sector .
         3 . ixo AI. liAM          «
                                        Article 43 of tho Treaty establishing tho iiuropoan Econoaio Community
        4 . objectives « To oaso tho conditions laid down in Artiolo 4 of Regulation 2511/69 to
                           onablo hotter ugo to bo               made of tho complementary aid-.
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     1 . ri'iio Complementary Aid is fixed by Regulation 2^1/ 6^/EEO
              "3 1000 u.a . per ha . for orange groves .
                       1200 u.a. per ha. for mandarin groves .
 ]?•           ft in estimated that the ratio of oranro groves to mandarin groves is 4^1
 'i                                                                                                                                                   *
 ' 3•         'i'.iorc ia prevision in the Regulation to reduce tho premium for the reconversion
 I            °£ roxxed variety plantations , this reduction is in relation to the percentage of
S             or tho urca roplahtod .
 ---pagebreak--- 4 * The estimated costs are calculated as follows#
                                       Ha .     Premium '    Total Cost
- Replanting                        6000        5200         31,2 HUA
- Regrafting total area             4000        5200         20 ,8 KUA
- no grafting partial area          3650        3000        10,95 IaJA
                                   13650                     63 ÏWA
 5« Tho worlc is to bo completed "before the 31 Decccioor 1973 and it
      has been assumed, that it will "bo divided equally botweon 1977
      and 1970 * Tho premium is paid in 5 equal annual instalments .
                          1978        Total               FEOGA Reimbursemont
                  1977
 1977             6,3                    6,3
                  6,3      6,3         12,6                       3,15
 1978
                  6,3      6,3         12,6                       6,3
 1979
                  6,3      6,3          12,6                      6,3
 1930
                  6,3      6,3          Î2,6                      6,3
 1981
                           6,3           6,3                      6,3
 1982
                                                                  3,15
 1983
                                                                 31,5 MUA
 6 . The original estimates evaluated the area to "benefit as 21,370 ha.
      and tho cost to EB0GA was estimates as 48,3 KUC . It can therefore
      bo stated that tho easing of the conditions in Article 4 will not
       cause inoreased expenditure over the original estimate .