Commission Regulation (EC) No 1152/1999 of 1 June 1999 fixing the intervention threshold for lemons for the 1999/2000 marketing year

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1152/1999
of 1 June 1999
fixing the intervention threshold for lemons for the 1999/2000 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 857/1999(2), and in particular Article 27(1) and (2) thereof,
(1) Whereas Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 provides for an intervention threshold to be fixed if the market in a product listed in Annex II is suffering or is at risk of suffering from widespread structural imbalances giving or liable to give rise to too large a volume of withdrawals; whereas such a development might cause budget problems for the Community;
(2) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1068/98(3) has fixed an intervention threshold for lemons for the 1998/1999 marketing year; whereas the conditions laid down by the abovementioned Article 27 have been met for this product; whereas an intervention threshold must therefore be set for lemons for the 1999/2000 marketing year;
(3) Whereas the intervention threshold for each product has to be fixed on the basis of a percentage of the average production intended for consumption in the natural state over the last five marketing years for which data are available; whereas the period to be taken into account for assessing the overrun of the intervention threshold must also be established for this product;
(4) Whereas, under the abovementioned Article 27, an overrun of the intervention threshold gives rise to a reduction in the Community withdrawal compensation in the marketing year following the overrun; whereas the implications of this overrun for the product in question should be determined and a reduction proportional to the size of the overrun should be fixed, up to a certain percentage;
(5) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables,