(1) The fisheries sector in the outermost regions of the Community is facing difficulties, and in particular additional costs incurred in the production and marketing of certain fishery products due to the particular handicaps recognised by Article 299(2) of the Treaty, and resulting in part from the costs incurred in transport to continental Europe.

This delegation noted a constant downgrading of the market with regard to the higher quantities of apples stored, especially at the beginning of the marketing year, and to the increasingly difficult market outlets.

The Austrian delegation, supported by the Czech, French, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Italian and Belgian delegations, informed the Council of serious and lasting difficulties on the cereals market, caused in particular by the exceptional cereals harvest in Europe this year and the surpluses this had generated, the constant evolution of the parity between the euro and the dollar, and the insufficient storage capacities available to a number of countries, and of the particular case of landlocked countries without access to the sea and unable to sell their production easily without incurring high transport costs (5489/05).

The still lengthy periods between needs assessment and project realisation, as well as the complicated payment systems, are two examples of the difficulties identified.

The Group V varieties are proving very difficult to market and action to support the abandonment of these crops has been reinforced.

More recently, in its "Memorandum on the adjustment of the market organization for cereals" (COM(85)700 final of 14 November 1985), it pointed to the difficulties in the disposal of stocks of cereals, in particular as cattle feed.