CELEX: 31976R1779
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1779/76 of 20 July 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1930/75 laying down special provisions applicable to trade in tomato concentrates between the Community as originally constituted and the new Member States

No L 199 /8                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               24. 7. 76
                                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1779/76
                                                    of 20 July 1976
               amending Regulation (EEC) No 1930/75 laying down special provisions appli­
               cable to trade in tomato concentrates between the Community as originally
                                       constituted and the new Member States
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                    Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,                                                       In Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1930/75, the
                                                               words 'and peeled tomatoes' shall be inserted after
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,             ' tomato concentrates'.
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­
ment ('),                                                                                Article 2
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1 930/75 (2) established           Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1930/75 is hereby
a system of compensatory amounts between the                   amended to read as follows :
Community as originally constituted and the new
Member States ;                                                      Article 4
Whereas, despite the introduction of that system , it                1 . The compensatory amount for tomato
has not been possible for the Community as originally               concentrates shall be equal to 50 % of the export
constituted to maintain its former volume of consign­               refund referred to in Article 1 . The compensatory
ments to the new Member States ; whereas this state of              amount shall be reduced in two stages.
affairs results from a widening of the difference
between non-member countries' offer prices and the                  The two reductions shall be such as to reduce the
Community cost price ; whereas the compensatory                     level of the compensatory amounts to 25 % and
amounts should therefore be increased in order to                   0 % respectively of the said refunds and shall be
protect the competitive position on the markets of the              made on 1 July 1977 and 1 January 1978 .
new Member States of producers in the Community as
originally constituted ;                                            When the first reduction is made, the compensa­
                                                                    tory amount, based on the level of the export
Whereas, as a result of market trends in recent years,              refunds, shall in no case be fixed at a level such as
large stocks of Community-produced peeled tomatoes                  to allow exportation to the new Member States at a
still remain to be disposed of ; whereas at the end of              price below the special minimum price referred to
the present marketing year Community stocks of                      in Article 2 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
about 200 000 metric tons may well have to be carried                1927/75 of 22 July 1975 concerning the system of
over ; whereas offer prices on the market of the three              trade   with   third  countries   in the  market   in
new Member States are lower than the price obtaining                products processed from fruit and vegetables ( J).
on markets in the Community as originally consti­
tuted ; whereas, since the markets of the new Member                2. The compensatory amount for peeled toma­
States are an important traditional outlet for Commu­               toes shall be equal to 25 % of the export refund
nity peeled tomatoes, this difference in prices could                referred to in Article 1 . The compensatory amount
harm the competitive position on those markets of                   shall be reduced in two stages.
producers in the Community as originally consti­
                                                                    The two reductions shall be such as to reduce the
tuted ;
                                                                     level of the compensatory amounts to 12-50 %
Whereas, under these circumstances, the system of                   and 0 % respectively of the said refunds and shall
compensatory amounts should be extended to apply                    be made on 1 July 1977 and 1 January 1978 .
to peeled tomatoes to safeguard the competitive posi­
tion of the said producers ; whereas those amounts              (•) OJ No L 198, 29. 7. 1975, p. 7.'
should be fixed at a level such as to facilitate the sale
of peeled tomatoes on the markets of the new
                                                                                         Article 3
Member States,
(') Opinion delivered on 8 July 1976 (not yet published in      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
    the Official Journal)                                       publication in the Official Journal of the European       ■
(2) OJ No L 198 , 29 . 7. 1975, p. 15.                           Communities.                                             i
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 20 July 1976.
                                                                     For the Council
                                                                       The President
                                                               A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE