11.5.90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L119/57 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1197/90 of 7 May 1990 laying down specific measures for the application of certain intervention thresholds in the fruit and vegetables sector for the 1990/91 marketing year 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 Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular Article 234 (3) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1), Having regard’ to the opinion of the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas Articles 16 (3a), 16a and 16b of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of the Council of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1193/90 (5); introduce mechanisms for intervention thresholds; whereas, as regards Portugal, the switchover to the second stage of accession in the fruit and vegetables sector takes place on 1 January 1991, i.e. during the 1990/91 marketing year for many products in the sector in question; whereas specific detailed rules should therefore- be adopted for the application of the abovementioned mechanisms; Whereas such specific detailed rules consist in fixing thresholds for the Community with the exception of Portugal on the one hand and for Portugal on-the other hand until 31 December 1990, and then thresholds for the Community as a whole for the period from 1 January 1991 to the end of the marketing years of the products in question; Whereas those thresholds should be fixed in accordance with the calculation methods already introduced, as the case may be, by=Article 16a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, by Regulation (EEC) No 2240/88 (%), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1521/89.(7), or by Regulation (EEC) No 1121/89 (8); Whereas, to -assess any overrun.in- the. abovementioned thresholds, the latter should be added to the quantities bought in, in view -of the incorporation of the Portuguese market from 1 January 1991, 1 (') O] No C 49;28. 2. 1990, p. 76. (2) O] No C 96, 17. 4. 1990. (?) OJNo C112,7. 5. 1990, p. 34. (4) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. (5) See page 43 of this Official Journal. (6) O] No L 198, 26. 7. 1988, p. 9. (7) O] No L 149, 1. 6. 1989, p. 1. (*) OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 21. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:.. Article 1 For the 1990/91 marketing year and for each product listed in Article 2, the following shall be fixed: 1. for the period from the beginning of the 1990/91 marketing year to 31 December 1990, — athreshold for the Community with the exception of Portugal, .. — -a threshold for Portugal; 2. for the period from 1 January 1991 to the end of the 1990/91 marketing year, a threshold for the Community. Article 2 1.  As regards the following products, the thresholds referred to in Article 1 shall bé fixed in accordance with the methods of calculation laid down: — for satsumas, clementines, mandarins and nectarines, in Article 16a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, — for peaches, oranges and lemons, in Articlel of Regulation (EEC) No 2240/88, — for apples, in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1121/89, : — for cauliflowers, in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1121/89. 2. As regards tomatoes, the thresholds referred to in : Article 1 shall be: — for the Community with the exception of Portugal, 574 500 ronnes, ' — for Portugal, 10 % of the-average production intended to be consumed fresh in the last five marketing years for which data are available. Article 3 Where the sum -of .the quantities of one of the products -referred to in Article 2 bought in in Portugal, on the one hand, and in the Community with the exception of Portugal, on the other hand, pursuant to Articles 15, 15a, 15b, 19 and 19a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 during the 1990/91 marketing year exceeds the sum of the intervention thresholds fixed for that product, for all or part of that