CELEX: 51973PC2061
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-06
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION establishing a system of production aids for tinned pineapple, processed from fresh pineapples (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                 ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
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 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY I^IORANKJM
                    On 19 June 1973 "the Council of Ministers worked out a
compronise which provided for the establishment of a trade arrangement with
third countries in respect of products processed from fruit and vegetables .
Provision was made for a free trade system and protective measures ( floor
prices , minimum prices ) for certain sensitive products .
                    However , the floor price system was not adopted for tinned
pineapple . The reasons for this were the low production of Martinique and the
structural nature of the difference between cost prices in the Community and
cost prices in third countries .
                    In order to maintain this economic activity in Martinique
and to ensure normal retail prices , an agreoment in principle on financial
compensation for the production of tinned   pineapple was drawn up . The Council
has adopted this agreement .
                    The proposal for a Regulation annexed deals with the
establishment of this system of production aids .
            imlicqtions for the_ I5A.GCF
 On the basis of the difference between world prices and Community prices
total aid to be granted by the EAGGF would amount to 2.000.000 units of
 account per year . It is expected to become stabilized at around 2.503*000
units of account , with a production ceiling of 12.000 t of preserved pine­
 apple .
 ---pagebreak---                        PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
establishing a system of production aids for tinned pineapple , processed
                          from fresh pineapples
                           THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES :
                           Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
                           European Economic Community , and in particular
                           Article 43 and 227 thereof |
                           Having regard to the proposal from the Commission}
                           Having regard to the Opinion of the European
                           Parliament ;
Whereas , "because of the special conditions affecting the Community market
in tinned pineapple , and in particular because of the need for the industry
to maintain prices that are competitive in relation to the prices fixed by
the main producing third countries , a system of production aids should be
established so that tinned pineapple may be produced at a lower price than
that which would result if the producers of fresh pineapples were paid a
remunerative price ;
Whereas , because of the importance of pineapple production to the economy
of the French Overseas Departments , the provisions concerning the Guarantee
Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund should be
applied in respect of those Departments :
                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 1
                  With effect from the 1974/75 marketing year there shall bo
established a system of production aids for tinned pineapple falling within
sub-heading 20,06 B of the Common Customs Tariff and processed from fresh
pineapples harvested in the Community .
 ---pagebreak--- Article 2
                      Production aids shc.ll be granted by the Member State on
whose territory the production of tinned pineapple takes place#
Article 3
1.                    Production aids shall be paid only to processors who
undertake to pay the pineapple producers at least a minimi: price .
2.                    That minimum price shall be calculated in such a way as
to ensure a fair income for the pineapple producers .
Article 4
1.                    The following shall be taken into account when the pro­
duction aids are fixed :
a) the minimum price to be paid to the producer ,
b ) the prices of tinned pineapple on the world market and the foreseeable
    trends in those prices ,
2.                    The Council , 8,cting on a proposal from the Commission in
accordance with the voting procedure provided for by Article 43 ( 2 ) of the
Treaty , shall fix every year in good time before the start of the marketiiig
year :
a) the . level of the minimum price to be paid to the producers ,
b ) the amount of the production aids for tinned pineapple .
Article 5
                      Production aids shall be paid to processors on their
application and on their furnishing proof :
- that they have produced the quantity of tinned pineapple indicated in their
   application ,
- that they have paid the producer a sum at least equal to the minimum price
   referred to above for the pineapples used in the production of tinned pine­
   apple ,.
- that the. pineapples used in tho production of tinned pineapple originated
   in the Community .
 ---pagebreak---  Article 6
                                                             3.
                      Detailed rulos for implementing this Regulation shall "be
 a opted in accordance with the procedure provided for in Artiole 15 of Re­
 taliation (EEC) Mo 865/68^ of 28 June 1968 on the common organization of
 the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables.
                      The provisions of Article 40 ( 4 ) of the Treaty and the
 provisions adopted pursuant thereto shall as regards the Guarantee Section
 cf the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund apply to the French
 Overseas Departments in respect of tinned pineapple .
Artide 0
                      This Regulation shall come into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
 directly applicable in all Member States .
                                            Done at Brussels ,
                                            For the Council
                                            The President
(l ) OJ Ho L 153, 1.7.1968 , p. 8