CELEX: 31963D0641
Language: en
Date: 1963-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23 October 1963 on the abolition of aid granted in respect of the transport in France of certain fruit and vegetable products

Official Journal of the European Communities                                     3
 2800/63                   OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                      30.1 1.63
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                 of 23 October 1963
               on the abolition of aid granted in respect of the transport in France of certain fruit and
                                                  vegetable products
                                                     (63/641 /EEC)
                                            (Only the French text is authentic)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  delays and overlappings in the harvesting periods in
COMMUNITIES ,                                                   different regions of France due to abnormal weather
                                                                conditions, and on the other hand abundant crops;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community, and in particular Article              Whereas the French Government has also drawn
92 and the first subparagraph of Article 93 (2)                 attention to *he existence in another Member State
thereof;                                                        of tariff measures having equivalent effect;
Having regard to Article 7 of Regulation No 231 on              Whereas the facts mentioned by the French Govern­
the progressive establishment of a common organiza­             ment are not such as to fulfil the conditions laid
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables;                     down for the derogations listed in Article 92 (2) and
                                                                 (3) of the Treaty and such derogations have not,
Having given the parties concerned notice to submit             moreover, been invoked by the French Government;
their comments :
                                                                Whereas this aid is accordingly incompatible with
                            \
                                                                the common market under the terms of Article 92 of
Whereas the French Government, in its letters of 10
July and 5 and 12 August 1963 , notified the Com­               the Treaty;
mission of its decision to reimburse up to 50 % of              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the costs incurred in the transport (by SNCF and
STEF) to the frontier of exports of cauliflowers, new                                  Article 1
carrots, melons, peaches, plums, summer pears and
table grapes ;                                                  The French Republic shall, not later than 8 Novem­
                                                                ber 1963, abolish the partial reimbursement from
                                                                State funds of the costs incurred in the transport
Whereas reimbursements relating to exports to other              (by SNCF and STEF) to the French frontier of cauli­
Member States constitute aid within the meaning of              flowers, carrots, melons, peaches, plums, summer
Article 92 of the Treaty, since French exporters can            pears and table grapes, where such reimbursement
thereby offer the abovementioned products at the                is granted in respect of exports of those products to
frontier of other Member States at a lower price                other Member States .
than that which would be the case in the absence of
such aid;                                                                              Article 2
                                                                This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
Whereas, in this respect, such aid distorts competition
on the markets of other Member States and is preju­             Done at Brussels, 23 October 1963 .
dicial to trade between Member States;
                                                                                  By the Commission
Whereas the French Government gave as the grounds                                   The President
for such aid, on the one hand certain contractions,                               Walter HALLSTEIN
                                                                              \ .
1 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 965/62.