L 30/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 5.2.98 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 293/98 of 4 February 1998 determining the operative events applicable to products in the fruit and veget- ables sector, to processed fruit and vegetable products and partly to live plants and floricultural products and to certain products listed in Annex II to the EC Treaty, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1445/93 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy ("), as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 150/95 (%), and in particular Article 6(2) thereof, Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 introduces new agri-monetary arrangements as from 1 January 1993; whereas, within the framework of that Regulation, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 of 30 April 1993 on detailed rules for determining and applying the agricultural conversion rates (%), as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1482/96 (*), determines the operative events for the agricultural conversion rates to apply after the transitional measures provided for in Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3820/92 (%), without prejudice to further details to be specified or to deroga- tions to be provided for, where appropriate, by regula- tions covering the product groups concerned on the basis of the criteria set out in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92; whereas the operative events for the agricultural conversion rates to apply after the transitional measures provided for in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3820/92 to products in the fruit and vegetables sector, processed fruit and vegetable products and to certain aid for live plants and floricultural products should accordingly be determined and grouped within a single regulation; Whereas new common organisations of markets were introduced by Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 (%), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2520/ 97 ("), for fruit and vegetables and by Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 (%), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2199/97 (%), for processed fruit and vegetable products; 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1. 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106. 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22. 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 22. 297, 21. 11. 1996, p. 1. 346, 17. 12. 1997, p. 41. 297, 21. 11. 1996, p. 29. 303, 6. 11. 1997, p. 1. > 000000000 S ST s St N ) e e |l onll onll enll enll enll onll enll onl 3 whereas the operative events determined by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1445/93 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3434/93 ('), should be adapted to this new situation, and the aforesaid Regulation (EEC) No 1445/93 should be repealed; Whereas Annexes I and II to Commission Regulation (EC) No 412/97 of 3 March 1997 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards the recognition of producer organisa- tions ('?), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1493/ 97 (%), determine, pursuant to Article 11(2)(a) of Regula- tion (EC) No 2200/96, the minimum volumes of market- able production required of recognised producer organ- isations; whereas these are annual volumes; whereas, pursuant to Article 6(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92, the operative event for the agricultural conversion rate for these volumes should be 1 January of the relevant year; Whereas Article 15(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 lays down the conditions in which Member States may set a maximum level for the supplement to the Community withdrawal compensation paid by the opera- tional funds; whereas the operative event applicable to the corresponding withdrawal compensation should be applied to the rate of conversion of this maximum level; Whereas in order to determine the Community financial assistance provided for in Article 15(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96, it is necessary to express in ecus the value of marketed production of producer organisations, the es- timated amount of operational funds, the actual financial contributions from member producers to operational funds and the expenditure on operational programmes as defined in Articles 7 and 9 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 411/97 of 3 March 1997 laying down detailed 142, 12. 6. 1993, p. 27. 314, 16. 12. 1993, p. 11. 62, 4. 3. 1997, p. 16. 202, 30. 7. 1997, p. 32. ECEE 0000 S onll ol onlll ol