Commission Regulation (EC) No 2183/98 of 9 October 1998 fixing the intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines for the 1998/99 marketing year

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2183/98 of 9 October 1998 fixing the intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines for the 1998/99 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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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 amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2520/97 (2), and in particular Article 27(1) and (2) thereof,
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 at risk of suffering from 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;
Whereas the conditions laid down in the abovementioned Article 27 are met for certain products and intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines should therefore be fixed;
Whereas this intervention threshold for each of those products should be fixed on the basis of a percentage of the average production intended for consumption in the fresh state over the last five marketing years for which data are available; whereas the period to be taken into account for assessing the over-run of the intervention threshold must also be established for each product in question;
Whereas, under the abovementioned Article 27, an over-run of the intervention threshold gives rise to a reduction in the Community withdrawal compensation in the marketing year following the over-run; whereas the implications of this over-run for each of the products in question should be determined and a reduction proportional to the size of the over-run should be fixed, up to a certain percentage;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,