30. 4. 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 118/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1116/81 of 28 April 1981 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2511/69 in respect of lemons and Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 in respect of lemons and preventive withdrawals of apples and THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commis- sion (1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia- ment (), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2511/69 of 9 December 1969 laying down special measures for improving the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit (*), as last amended by Regu- lation (EEC) No 1367/80 (5), extended the granting of financial compensation for the marketing of lemons until the end of the 1980/81 marketing year; Whereas these measures have encouraged the marketing of better quality products; whereas such a trend should be furthered by retaining these measures in the coming marketing year; whereas, therefore, when the reference price for lemons is calculated, account should not be taken of the transport costs as defined in Article 23 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables(®), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1367/80; Whereas Article 15a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that preventive withdrawals may be autho- (") OJ No C 75, 3. 4. 1981, p. 36. (?)) OJ No C 90, 21. 4. 1981, p. 101. (®) Opinion delivered on 2§ and 26 March 1981 (not yet published in the Official Journal). () OJ No L 318, 18. 12. 1969, p. 1. (®) OJ No L 140, 3. 6. 1980, p. 24. (6) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. rized for apples and pears where the market situation gives reason to fear a collapse of the market and heavy withdrawals and where producer prices fall below certain levels; whereas experience in the last two marketing years shows that the effectiveness of these preventive withdrawals would be improved if the deci- sion authorizing them could be taken solely on the basis of an examination of the market situation, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATICN : Article 1 In the second paragraph of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2511/69, ‘1 June 1981’ shall be replaced by ‘1 June 1982". Article 2 In Article 15a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, para- graph 1 shall be replaced by the following: ‘I.  As regards apples and pears, if examination of the market situation and particularly of the volume of production and the price levels shows the risk of a collapse of the market and of heavy withdrawals of one or both of the products concerned, it may be decided, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 33, that the Member States may authorize producers’ organiza- tions to withdraw, during the first months of the marketing year, a proportion of the products which comply with the minimum specifications of the quality standards in force. When a producers’ organization makes use of this authorization, it shall grant to member producers an indemnity, calculated on the basis of the with- drawal price referred to in Article 15, in respect of the quantities of products withdrawn.