Traduction de «area under olive trees » (Anglais → Français) :

In 1998/99, there were approximately 4.5 million hectares under olive trees in the EU, i.e. 4% of usable agricultural, 44.5% of the total in Spain; the EU dominates world olive production, with harvests which constantly throughout the 1990s, particularly in Spain, reaching the unprecedented figure of 2.46 million tonnes of virgin olive oil in 2001/2002.

In 1998/99, there were approximately 4.5 million hectares under olive trees in the EU, i.e. 4% of usable agricultural, 44.5% of the total in Spain; the EU dominates world olive production, with harvests which constantly throughout the 1990s, particularly in Spain, reaching the unprecedented figure of 2.46 million tonnes of virgin olive oil in 2001/2002.

Only areas corresponding either to olives trees planted before 1 May 1998 or to replacing trees or covered by a programme approved by the Commission are eligible for production aid under the current scheme and should therefore be the only ones to be included under the single payment scheme as well as be eligible under the olive grove payment scheme.

Where a Member State makes use of the option provided for in Article 59, farmers may, by way of derogation from Article 51 and in accordance with this Article, also use the parcels declared according to Article 44(3) for the production of products referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 or in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and of potatoes other than those intended for the manufacture of potato starch for which aid is granted under Article 93 of this Regulation, except permanent crops, apart from hops or olive trees ...[+++] planted before 1 May 1998 or new olive trees replacing existing olive trees or olive trees within approved planting schemes and registered into a geographic information system".

Farmers may, by way of derogation from Article 51 and in accordance with the provisions of this Article, also use the parcels declared according to Article 44(3) for the production referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96, in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and potatoes other than those intended for the manufacture of potato starch for which aid is granted under Article 93 of this Regulation, except permanent crops, apart from hops or olive trees planted before 1 Ma ...[+++]y 1998 and, in Cyprus and Malta, before 31 December 2001, or new olive trees replacing existing olive trees or olive trees within approved planting schemes and registered into a geographic information system".

On the same basis, the Joint Research Centre estimated, in the OLISTAT and OLIAREA studies, the number of olive trees in the Community and the total surface area of olive-growing areas respectively.