31968R0988

30 Official Journal of the European Communities

NoL 169/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 18.7.68

REGULATION (EEC) No 988/68 OF THE COUNCIL of 15 July 1968 on the financing of intervention expenditure and refunds in respect of fruit and vegetables

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , responsibility by the Fund should be limited to compen­ sation granted for products withdrawn from the market Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European which have been put to those uses : Economic Community : Whereas , in order to calculate the amount reimbursed by Having regard to Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC 1 the Fund in respect of compensation granted by Member of 5 February 1964 on the conditions for granting aid States to producer organizations in pursuance of from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guaran­ Article 6 (2) of Regulation No 159/66/EEC, account tee Fund , and in particular Articles 2 ( 1 ) and 5 ( 2) should be taken of the total amount of receipts , if any, thereof; obtained by such organizations by means of the products withdrawn from the market ; Having regard to the proposal from the Commission : Whereas , since the fourth subparagraph of Article 12(4) Whereas, in order to apply the method known as the of Regulation No 159/66/EEC provides for the calcula­ basic products method referred to in Article 2 of Regula­ tion of refunds for Member States other than the Italian tion No 17/64/EEC to the reimbursement of the re­ Republic , detailed rules should be laid down for reim­ funds on exports to third countries for the period 1 Janu­ bursing the expenditure borne by that Member State: ary to 30 June 1967. the basic products for the market in fruit and vegetables should be determined : Whereas , since refunds calculated at a flat rate should not exceed the actual expenditure borne by Member Whereas in this market the import charge is calculated States , the factors involved in calculating the actual ex­ for all products according to individual criteria and not penditure' should be determined. in relation to the import charge for another product : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas , pursuant to Article 12(2) of Council Regula­ tion No 159/66/EEC 2 of 25 October 1966 laying down additional provisions for the common organization of A rticle 1 the market in fruit - and vegetables , the actions arising For the purposes of the common organization of the from the application of Articles 6 and 7 of that Regula­ market in fruit and vegetables each of the products listed tion are interventions on the domestic market the aim in Annexes II and III to Regulation No 159/66/EEC and (operation of which is identical with that of refunds shall be considered to be a basic product . on exports to third countries within the meaning of Article 5(1) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC ; A rticle 2 Whereas, in accordance witlvArticle 5 ( 2) of Regulation The financial compensation provided for in Article 6 of No 17/64/EEC. detailed rules should be laid down for Regulation No 159/66/EEC shall be borne by the granting aid from the Guarantee Section of the Fund for Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guid­ those interventions which have been the financial respon­ ance and Guarantee Fund only : sibility of the Community since 1 January 1967: - in so far as the products benefiting from such compen­ Whereas the uses which may be made of products which sation are put to one of the uses described in the Member States have agreed to buy in must be deter­ provisions adopted in pursuance of Article 7 ( 4) of the mined in accordance with Article 7 ( 4) of Regulation No abovementioned Regulation : 159/66/EEC ; whereas the benefits of the assumption of - up to the amount resulting from application of the withdrawal price to the quantity of products with­ drawn from the market , that amount being reduced by the total net amount of receipts , if any. obtained by 1 OJ No 34.27.2 . 1964 . p. 586/64. 2 OJ No 192,27.10.1966 . p. 3286/ 66 . means of those products .

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A rticle 3 A rticle 4 Up to an amount of 40 million units of account per ac­ Under the terms of the fifth subparagraph of Article counting period, the amount of the refund of expenditure 12(4) of Regulation No 1'59/66/ EEC . 'actual expendi­ borne by the Italian Republic for the operations provided ture borne by Member States means : for in Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation No 159/66/EEC - the amount of financial compensation granted to pro­ shall be determined according to the same method as ducer organizations , calculated in accordancc with that laid down for the other Member States in the fourth the provisions of Article 6 of Regulation No 159/66/ and fifth subparagraphs of Article 12(4) of that Regula­ EEC . and Article 2 of this Regulation : tion , the buying-in price to be taken into account for cal­ culating such amount being that fixed by the Italian - the sums assigned to payment for products bought in Republic in accordance with the provisions of Article 8 accordance with Article 7 of Regulation No 159/66/ of that Regulation . EEC . less the net amount of receipts, if any. obtained by means of those..products.

A rticle 5 If. for the same accounting period , the expenditure borne by the Italian Republic for the operations provided for in The bodies responsible in each Member State for pay Article 6 and 7 of Regulation No 159/66/EEC results ment of the intervention expenditure arising from the in the reimbursement of an amount of more than 40 mil­ application of Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation No 159/66/ lion units of account , and if the amount of the expendi­ EEC shall be obliged to keep until 30 June of the year ture of the five other Member States to be reimbursed following that during which the Commission decided on remains at less than 20 million units of account , the aid from the Guarantee Section of the Fund : reimbursement of the additional expenditure borne by - proof of the required inspections for quantity and the Italian Republic shall be effected , within the limits of quality : the available portion of the 20 million units of account : in accordancc with the terms laid down for the other - proof of the use made of the products which were the Member States in the fourth and fifth subparagraphs of subject of interventions within the meaning of Articles Article 1 2 ( 4) of the abovementioned Regulation . 6 and 7 of that Regulation .

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

Done at Brussels . 15JuIv 1%S .

For the Council The President G.SHDATI