CELEX: 32000R2234
Language: en
Date: 2000-10-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2234/2000 of 9 October 2000 fixing depreciation percentages to be applied when agricultural products are bought in, for the 2001 financial year

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32000R2234

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2234/2000 of 9 October 2000 fixing depreciation percentages to be applied when agricultural products are bought in, for the 2001 financial year  

Official Journal L 256 , 10/10/2000 P. 0011 - 0012

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2234/2000of 9 October 2000fixing depreciation percentages to be applied when agricultural products are bought in, for the 2001 financial yearTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1883/78 of 2 August 1978 laying down general rules for the financing of interventions by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1259/96(2), and in particular Article 8(1) thereof,Whereas:(1) Pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1883/78, systematic depreciation of public intervention agricultural products must take place when they are bought in. Accordingly the Commission determines the depreciation percentage for each product concerned before the beginning of each year. Such percentage shall not exceed the difference between the buying-in price and the foreseeable disposal price for each of these products.(2) Pursuant to Article 8(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1883/78, the Commission may, at its discretion, restrict depreciation at the time of buying in to a proportion of this depreciation percentage, but such proportion may not be less than 70 %. Coefficients to be applied also for the 2001 financial year by the intervention agencies to the monthly buying-in values of products should be fixed, to enable the agencies to establish the depreciation amounts.(3) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the EAGGF Committee,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:Article 1In respect of the product listed in the Annex, which, having been bought in by public intervention have entered store or been taken over by the intervention agencies between 1 October 2000 and 30 September 2001, the authorities shall depreciate their value to account for the difference between the buying-in prices and the foreseeable selling prices of the relevant products.Article 2To establish the amount of the depreciation, the intervention agencies shall apply to the values of the products bought in every month the coefficients set out in the Annex.The expenditure amounts determined in this way shall be notified to the Commission under the declarations established pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 296/96(3).Article 3This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.It shall apply from 1 October 2000 onwards.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 9 October 2000.For the CommissionFranz FischlerMember of the Commission(1) OJ L 216, 5.8.1978, p. 1.(2) OJ L 163, 2.7.1996, p. 10.(3) OJ L 39, 17.2.1996, p. 5.ANNEX"k" depreciation coefficients (Article 8(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1883/78) to be applied to the monthly buying-in values>TABLE>