0805 20 90 | FRESH OR DRIED TANGELOS, ORTANIQUES, MALAQUINAS AND SIMILAR CITRUS HYBRIDS (EXCLUDING CLEMENTINES, MONREALES, SATSUMAS, MANDARINS, WILKINGS AND TANGERINES) |

Small-fruited citrus (mandarins, including tangerines and satsumas; clementines, wilkings and other similar hybrids of citrus fruits ).

Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 lays down Community processing thresholds for lemons, oranges and grapefruit separately, and for mandarins, clementines and satsumas, hereinafter referred to as "small citrus fruit", taken together.

Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2601/69 of 18 December 1969 laying down special measures to encourage the processing of mandarins, satsumas, clementines and oranges (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1123/89 (7), and Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/77 of 17 May 1977 laying down special measures to encourage the marketing of products processed from lemons (8), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1124/89 (9), financial compensation is granted to processors of such products subject to the payment to the producer of a minimum price; whereas it is difficult to establish the date of processing of each consignment ...[+++]; whereas, in order to ensure the uniform application of these arrangements, the operative event for entitlement to financial compensation should therefore occur on the first day of the marketing year for oranges, mandarins, satsumas and clementines and on 1 June and 1 December of each year for lemons; whereas, given the link between the financial compensation and the minimum price paid to the producer, the conversion rate to be applied to the latter must be the same as that applicable to the financial compensation;

- in the case of oranges, mandarins, clementines and satsumas delivered for processing into juice on 1 October of the current marketing year or, in the case of clementines and satsumas in tinned segments, during that marketing year,

1. Aid shall be granted in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 for measures to be carried out at the latest by 31 December 1976 within the framework of the plan referred to in Article 2, which are designed to: (a) replant existing plantations of orange and mandarin trees with other varieties of oranges or mandarins or other citrus fruit of the satsuma or clementine type with a view to adapting such plantations to suit consumer demand; (1)OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p. 586/64 (2)OJ No L 289, 29.11.1968, p. 1.