12. 6. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 142/27 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1445/93 of 11 June 1993 determining the operative events applicable to products in the fruit and ~ vegetables sector, to processed fruit and vegetable products and partly to live plants and floricultural products THE COMMISSION OF THE BUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic 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 (), 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 (¥ 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 regulations 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 agricul- tural 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 accord- - ingly be determined and grouped within a single regula- tion ; Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 should apply in connection with the countervailing charge and export refund provided for in Title IV of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vege- tables (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 746/93 (), in connection with the minimum import price, the countervailing charge and the refund provided for in Title II of Council Regulation (EEC) No 426/86 of 24 February 1986 on the common organization of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables (%), () OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. ‘() OJ No L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106. () OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 22. () OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. % OJ No L 77, 31. 3. 1993, p. 14. (9 OJ No L 49, 27. 2. 1986, p. 1. as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1569/92 ("), in connection with the minimum import prices for certain soft fruits originating in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic- and Slovakia provided for in Article 1 of - Council Regulation (EEC) No 1333/92 (), and in connec- tion with the additional amount fixed in ecus in Article 2 (1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1796/81 of 30 June 1981 on measures applicable to imports of preserved cultivated mushrooms (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1122/92 ('), Whereas the fourth indent of Article 10 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 provides that, in the case of withdra- wals of products in the fruit and vegetables sector, the operative event for the agricultural conversion rate is to occur on the first day of the month in which the with- drawal takes place ; whereas that rule should apply not only to withdrawals pursuant to Articles 15, 15a and 15b of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 but also, because related or similar operations are involved, to the maximum sorting and packing costs defrayed in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2103/90 (') for apples and citrus fruit distributed free, and to buying-in pursuant to Articles 19 and 19a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72; whereas Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 may be applied to aid towards the cost of trans- port of fruit and vegetables distributed- free provided for, pursuant to Article 21  of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2276/92 (*); Whereas there is provision for a system of aid for proces- sing citrus fruit in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2601/69 of 18 December 1969 laying down special measures to encourage the processing of mandarins, satsumas, clemen- tines and oranges (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3848/89 (*4), and in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/77 of 17 May 1977 laying down special measures to encourage the marketing of products processed from lemons ('), as last amended by Regulation () OJ No L 166, 20. 6. 1992, p. 5. () OJ No L 145, 27. 5. 1992, p. 3. () OJ No L 183, 4. 7. 1981, p. 1. - (™ OJ No L 117, 1. 5. 1992, p. 98. (") O] No L 191, 24. 7. 1990, p. 19. (%).0J No L 220, 5. 8. 1992, p. 22. (") OJ No L 324, 27. 12. 1969, p. 21. () OJ No L 374, 22. 12. 1989, p. 6. (") OJ No L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 3.