COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1368/1999

of 25 June 1999

fixing additional aid for tomato concentrates and their derivatives for the 1998/99 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the markets in processed fruit and vegetable products(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2199/97(2), and in particular Article 4(9) thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1518/98(3) set for the 1998/99 marketing year the minimum price and the amount of production aid for processed tomato products;

(2) Whereas Article 4(10) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 lays down that the aid set for tomato concentrates and their derivatives is to be reduced by 5,37 % so as not to exceed overall expenditure following the increase in French and Portuguese quotas for concentrates; whereas additional aid may be paid after the marketing year if the increase in French and Portuguese quotas is not entirely used up;

(3) Whereas, in accordance with Article 17(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 504/97(4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 702/1999(5), the Member States sent the Commission detailes of the quantities of tomatoes processed within quota and in excess of the quota; whereas the French and Portuguese quotas for concentrates were not entirely used up in the 1998/99 marketing year; whereas, therefore, additional aid supplementary to that set for tomato concentrates and their derivatives in Regulation (EC) No 1518/98 should be paid to processors who have submitted aid applications in accordance with Article 11(4) of Regulation (EC) No 504/97;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. For the 1998/99 marketing year, the additional aid for tomato concentrate, juice and flakes as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 4(10) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.

2. The agency referred to in Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 504/97 shall pay processors the additional aid fixed by this Regulation on the basis of aid applications submitted in accordance with that Article.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 25 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.

(2) OJ L 303, 6.11.1997, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 200, 16.7.1998, p. 29.

(4) OJ L 78, 20.3.1997, p. 14.

(5) OJ L 89, 1.4.1999, p. 26.

ANNEX

SUPPLEMENT TO PRODUCTION AID

1998/1999 marketing year

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