Commission Regulation (EC) No 2899/2000

of 21 December 2000

fixing the standard values to be used in calculating the financial compensation and the advance pertaining thereto in respect of fishery products withdrawn from the market during the 2001 fishing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products(1), and in particular Article 21(8) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 provides for financial compensation to be paid to producer organisations which intervene, on certain conditions, in the products listed in Annex I (A) and (B) to that Regulation. The amount of such financial compensation should be reduced by standard values in the case of products intended for purposes other than human consumption.

(2) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1501/83 of 9 June 1983 on the disposal of certain fishery products which have been the subject of measures to stabilise the market(2) specifies the ways in which the products withdrawn from the market must be disposed of. The value of such products should be fixed at a standard level for each of these modes of disposal, taking into account the average revenues which may be obtained from such disposal in the various Member States.

(3) On the basis of relevant information affecting these values, they should be fixed for the 2001 fishing year as shown in the Annex hereto.

(4) Under Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2509/2000 of 15 November 2000 setting detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 as regards financial compensation on certain fishery products(3), special rules provide that, where a producer organisation or one of its members puts its products up for sale in a Member State other than the country in which it is recognised, the body responsible for granting the financial compensation must be informed. This body is the one in the Member State in which the producer organisation is recognised. The standard value deductible should therefore be the value applied in that Member State.

(5) The above provisions apply equally to advances on financial compensation as provided for in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2509/2000.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In the 2001 fishing year, the standard values to be used in calculating financial compensation and associated advances for products withdrawn from the market by producer organisations, intended for purposes other than human consumption, are hereby fixed as set out in the Annex hereto for each of the uses indicated.

Article 2

The standard value to be deducted from financial compensation and associated advances shall be that applied in the Member State in which the producer organisation is recognised.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2000.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.

(2) OJ L 152, 10.6.1983, p. 22.

(3) OJ L 289, 16.11.2000, p. 11.

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