CELEX: 31970R0942
Language: en
Date: 1970-05-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 942/70 of the Commission of 25 May 1970 authorizing France to impose certain additional conditions for the grant of premiums for grubbing pear trees and peach trees

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                               REGULATION (EEC) No 942/70 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 25 May 1970
                authorising France to impose certain additional conditions for the grant of premiums for
                                            grubbing pear trees and peach trees
  THE    COMMISSION       OF   THE    EUROPEAN      COM­          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  MUNITIES,
                                                                                          Article 1
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
  European Economic Community ;
                                                                  1 . As far as pear trees and peach trees are
                                                                  concerned, the French Government is hereby
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    authorised to restrict the granting of the grubbing
 2517/691 of 9 December 1969 laying down certain                 premium referred to in Article 1 of Council
 measures for reorganising Community fruit                       Regulation (EEC) No 2517/69 and granted in
 production, and in particular Article 5 thereof;                 accordance      with  the conditions   laid  down     in
                                                                 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2637/692 to trees
                                                                 producing the following varieties of fruit :
 Whereas, in application of Article 5 of Regulation
 (EEC) No 2517/69, the French Government has                     — for pear trees, the Dr. Jules Guyot variety, and
 requested authorisation to restrict, under certain             — for peach trees, the May Flower and Elberta
 conditions, the granting of the premium for grubbing                 varieties .
 trees to pear trees of the Dr. Jules Guyot variety and
 to peach trees of the May Flower and Elberta                    2.     However, the premium must be granted for
 varieties, it being understood however that in certain          grubbing trees of varieties excluded therefrom by
 cases the premium will be granted for grubbing trees            paragraph 1 :
 of other varieties; whereas the varieties covered by
 this request are varieties which have either caused             ( a) where they are planted either in alternate lines or
 disturbances on the market and led to products being                 in alternation in a line of pear trees of the Dr.
 withdrawn in pursuance of Article 6 of Regulation                    Jules Guyot variety or of peach trees of the May
 No     159/66/EEC     or   are    some    of   the  least            Flower and Elberta varieties and provided they
 highly-valued varieties and as such are likely to cause              represent less than 50% of the trees on the area
 such disturbances ; whereas, since the measures in                   to be grubbed ; and
question make it possible to remedy the quantitative
 and qualitative imbalance of production, the French            (b) where, in an orchard of an area less than 5 ha,
Government should be authorised to adopt these                        — they represent less than 50% of the total area
measures ;                                                                of the apple, pear and peach orchard, and
                                                                      — they are grubbed at the same time as all
Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and                            apple, pear and peach trees in that orchard.
Vegetables has not issued an Opinion within the time
limit set by its Chairman ;
                                                                                          Article 2
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
1 OJ No L 318, 18.12.1969, p. 15.                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
2 OJ No L 327, 30.12.1969, p. 21 .                              the European Communities.
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    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
    States .
    Done at Brussels, 25 May 1970 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                        The President
                                                                           Jean REY