CELEX: 51988PC0284(02)
Language: en
Date: 1988-06-02
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2511/69 LAYING DOWN SPECIAL MEASURES FOR IMPROVING THE PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF COMMUNITY CITRUS FRUIT

N o C 182/12                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 12. 7. 88
3.    Advances in respect of work done may be made in                                         Article 7
accordance with the financing procedure adopted by
Greece and by reference to the state of progress of the             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
work referred to in Article 1 (3) (a).                              following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                    European Communities.
4.    Detailed rules for the application of this Article
shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
down in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70.                   directly applicable in all Member States.
                                                            ANNEX
                                                       Geographical scope
                                                      Prefectures of:
                                                     —    Akhaia
                                                     —    Magnisia
                                                     —    Ewia
                                                     —    Lakonia
                                                     —    Arkadia
                                                     —    Korinthia
                                                      —   Messinia
                                                      —   Fthiotida
                                                      —   Lesvos
                                                      —   Argolida
               Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2511/69 laying down
                  special measures for improving the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit
                                                      COM(88) 284 final
                               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 7 June 1988)
                                                         (88/C 182/07)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            programme approved        by    the Commission   on    21
                                                                     November 1983;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
 thereof,                                                            Whereas citrus plantations in certain regions of Greece
                                                                     were destroyed or seriously damaged by particularly
                                                                     severe and protracted frosts during the winter of
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  1986/87 which, to a large extent, have jeopardized the
                                                                     results obtained and the progress of the plan being
                                                                     implemented; whereas, accordingly, the re-establishment
 Having regard       to   the opinion   of    the  European
                                                                     of the plantations concerned should, subject to certain
 Parliament,
                                                                     conditions, be encouraged in order to ensure the survival
                                                                     of farming in the affected regions;
 Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) N o
 2511/69 ( l ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) N o
 3130/86 (2), Greece has implemented its plan laying                 Whereas such re-establishment should maintain quality
 down special measures for improving the production and              at a high level or improve it by using the best varieties
 marketing of citrus fruit in accordance with the                    available where the level of quality does not yet meet
                                                                     consumer requirements; whereas damaged plantations
                                                                     should therefore be re-established by means of
 0) OJ No L 318, 18. 12. 1969, p. 1.                                 conversion schemes where the varieties grown prior to
 (2) OJ No L 292, 16. 10. 1986, p. 5.                                the frosts did not meet consumer requirements;
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Whereas some Greek citrus growers were prevented by                        c) the aids referred to in the first subparagraph
the severe weather from starting the conversion and                             of paragraph 1 and in paragraph 3 may be
restructuring schemes already provided for in the plan                          granted for schemes for the re-establishment
approved by the Commission; whereas they should be                              of trees damaged by frost during the winter
given the opportunity, therefore, of making a start on                          of 1986/87 which are begun up to 31
those schemes at the appropriate time;                                          December 1990 in the case of citrus plan-
                                                                                tations whose varietal composition already
                                                                                satisfied consumer requirements before the
Whereas, since the frost destroyed a significant
                                                                                frost, where such re-establishment schemes
proportion of trees which had already been the subject
                                                                                are carried out by:
of conversion schemes or formed part of new plantations
which had already been established as a result of the                          — grubbing and replanting with the varieties
restructuring schemes, or which were the subject of                                 grown before the frost or other varieties
schemes in the course of being implemented, and of                                  of citrus fruit which meet consumer
grafts intended for the implementation of the plan, new                             requirements;
schemes must be started; whereas, consequently, the aids                       — cutting off the trunk or main or secondary
granted for those schemes must be adjusted to take                                  branches and top grafting of the varieties
account of the damage caused;                                                       grown before the frost or other varieties
                                                                                    of citrus fruit which meet consumer
Whereas, in order to remedy the situation thus created                              requirements.
by the frost, provision must be made for an emergency
scheme to run for a further period of two years and for
the subsequent amendment of the plan implemented in                             In addition, the aids relating to the measures
Greece,                                                                         referred to in paragraph 1 (d) may be granted
                                                                                to the extent necessary to carry out the re-
                                                                                establishment schemes.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                           5.     The aids for the schemes referred to in
                           Article 1                                       paragraph 4 shall be eligible under the EAGGF
Regulation (EEC) N o 2511/69 is hereby amended as                          only where the surface area of the citrus trees
follows:                                                                   damaged by frost represents 20 % at least of the
                                                                           area of the holding on which citrus trees were
                                                                           grown prior to the frost.'
1. Article 1 is amended as follows:
     (i) The following       subparagraph     is  added    to      2. Article 2 is amended as follows:
         paragraph 2:
         'However, the date referred to in the first
         subparagraph shall be deferred for two years as               (i) the beginning of the third         subparagraph     is
         regards the implementation of the provisions                      replaced by the following:
         contained in paragraph 4.'                                        'The Member States concerned shall, by 30 April
                                                                           1983 at the latest, and for the implementation of
    (ii) The following paragraphs are added:                               the provisions laid down in Article 1 (4), by 30
                                                                           September 1988 at the latest, draw up a plan . . . ' ;
         '4.   In Greece:
         (a) the aids referred to in the first subparagraph           (ii) the following subparagraph is inserted after the
             of paragraph 1 and in paragraph 3 may be                      fourth subparagraph: 'The plan drawn up in
             granted in respect of operations as referred to               accordance with the provisions of Article 1 (4)
             in paragraph 1 (a), (c) and (d) on which a                    and (5) shall specify in particular, in addition to
             start has been made up to 31 December 1990,                   the particulars referred to in the third and fourth
             where citrus plantations were damaged by                      subparagraphs, the location of the areas
             frost during the winter of 1986/87;                           particularly affected by the severe weather, the
                                                                           extent of the damage caused, the number of
         (b) in the case of citrus plantations which were                  holdings affected, the extent of the areas for
             the subject, up to the winter of 1986/87, of                  which aid may be granted for the schemes
             operations as referred to in paragraph 1 (a),                 referred to in Article 1 (4), including the varieties
             (c) and (d), the aids referred to in the first                cultivated on the plantations which are the subject
             subparagraph of paragraph 1 and in                            of those schemes, and the control measures for
             paragraph 3 may be granted again where such                   ensuring that the aids granted to citrus growers
             operations must be recommenced as a result                    whose plantations suffered damage as a result of
             of the winter frosts in question and up to 31                 the frost meet the requirements laid down in
             December 1990;                                                Article 1 (5).'
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3. The following point is added to Article 3 (1):                      (iii) in paragraph 4 the following is added to the first
                                                                              subparagraph:
   '(d) with respect to the work referred to in Article 1
         (4)(c):                                                              '. . . or of schemes as provided for in Article 1 (4)
                                                                              (c).'
         — to the re-establishment of citrus plantations
              damaged by frost, by maintaining the varietal
              composition of the plantations or by an               5. Article 5 is amended as follows:
              appropriate choice of other varieties adapted
              to consumer requirements,                                 (i) the following is added to the first indent of
         — to the rationalization of the means of                            paragraph 1:
              production, as provided for in the second                      '. . . and of the measures referred to in Article 1
              indent of paragraph 1 (a), where the level of                  (4) <c).'
              such rationalization is not yet satisfactory.'
                                                                       (ii) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
4. Article 4 is amended as follows:
                                                                             '2.      The Guidance Section of the EAGGF shall
     (i) in paragraph 1 the following subparagraph is                        reimburse Member States 50 % of the expen-
         inserted after the second subparagraph:                             diture arising from the measures referred to in
         'However, for the implementation of the                             Article 1 (1), from payment of the additional aid
         provisions of Article 1 (4) (a) and (b) the figure                  provided for in Article 1 (3) and from the
         given in the second indent of the first                             measures referred to in Article 1 (4) (c).'
         subparagraph is reduced to 20 %.'
    (ii) the following paragraph is inserted:                                                    Article 2
         '2a.     As regards the additional aid referred to
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
         in Article 1 (3) for the implementation of the
                                                                    following its publication in the Official Journal of the
         provisions contained in Article 1 (4) (c), the
                                                                    European Communities.
         conditions referred to in the first subparagraph of
         paragraph 1 shall apply, with the exception of the
         rate of 40 % referred to in the second indent of           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
         that subparagraph/                                         directly applicable in all Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) introducing an emergency common measure to aid
                                 the agricultural areas of the Regions of Valencia and Murcia
                                                        COM(88) 284 final
                                 (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 7 June 1988)
                                                           (88/C 182/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Whereas the flooding that occurred between 2 and 5
                                                                    November 1987 in the Regions of Murcia and Valencia
                                                                    destroyed or seriously damaged rural infrastructures and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               certain factors of agricultural production, including
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                    human habitations, in those regions;
thereof,
                                                                    Whereas the flooding damaged agricultural land, and in
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  some cases removed the topsoil;
                                                                    Whereas steps should be taken in the most seriously
Having regard         to  the   opinion   of   the   European       affected areas to promote and speed up the re-estab-
Parliament,                                                         lishment of damaged or destroyed investments;
Whereas, in order to attain the objectives of the common            Whereas the information supplied to the Commission by
agricultural policy laid down in Article 39 (1) (a) and (b)         the Spanish Government indicates that the extent and
of the Treaty, it is necessary to assist the structural             seriousness of the damage exceed the financial resources
improvement of farming in regions facing particularly               of the Regions concerned and of the Member State;
serious problems;                                                   whereas Community solidarity should consequently take