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►B COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)No 738/93
of 17 March 1993
amending the transitional measures governing common organization of the market as provided for
by Regulation (EEC)No 3653/90
(OJ L 77, 31.3.1993, p. 1)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Council Regulation (EC) No 823/2001 of 24 April 2001 L 120 2 28.4.2001
NB: This consolidated version contains references to the European unit of account and/or the ecu, which from 1 January 1999
should be understood as references to the euro — Council Regulation (EEC) No 3308/80 (OJ L 345, 20.12.1980, p. 1) andCouncil Regulation (EC) No 1103/97 (OJ L 162, 19.6.1997, p. 1).
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)No 738/93
of 17 March 1993
amending the transitional measures governing common organiza-
tion of the market as provided for by Regulation (EEC)No 3653/90
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European EconomicCommunity,
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,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(
1),
Whereas the achievement of the Single Market requires the removal of
all barriers to trade, not only between the Member States of theCommunity as constituted on 31 December 1985 but also, to the greatestpossible extent, between those Member States and Spain and Portugal;
Whereas this will mean abolition for the supplementary trade
mechanism applicable to cereals and rice, and where cereals areconcerned makes it appropriate, in order to enable Portuguese farmers tomeet increased competition for the other Member States, to reduce overa longer period the aid provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No3653/90 of 11 December 1990 introducing transitional measures
governing the common organization of the market in cereals and rice
in Portugal(
2);
Whereas, under the reform of the common agricultural policy, provision
was made for a reduction in intervention prices by Council Regulation
(EEC) No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the
market in cereals(3); whereas the resulting loss of income is
compensated for by direct support on a per hectare basis introducedby Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 of 30 June 1992 establishing asupport system for producers of certain arable crops(
4); whereas the
method of calculating Portuguese aid should be adapted so as to avoid a
double compensation;
Whereas accession compensatory amounts are due to be applied in trade
in rice between Portugal and the other Member States until the end ofthe 1994/95 marketing year since Regulation (EEC) No 3653/90
provides for the price of the said product to be aligned on the common
price only with effect from that date;
Whereas price alignment for this product can be brought forward and all
accession compenstory amounts can therefore be abolished on that date
if the loss of earnings of Portuguese rice producers is offset by a similar
aid scheme to that already provided for cereals by Regulation (EEC) No3653/90; whereas the arrangements provided for in that Regulationshould therefore be amended accordingly;
Whereas to offset the difficulties that elimination of the supplementary
trade mechanism for rice would otherwise involve for Portugueseproducers the initial amount of the said aid should be set at more thanthe simple price difference of ECU 17,45 per tonne and it should bemade degressive to the end of the 1997/98 marketing year;
Whereas, at the same time, the fixed components applicable to products
processed from cereals and rice until 31 December 1999 at the latestpursuant to the abovementioned Regulation should be abolished;whereas, in the case of most products, following attainment of thesingle market the difficulties and cost of the monitoring required in1993R0738 — EN — 01.06.2001 — 001.001 — 2
(1) OJ No C 21, 25. 1. 1993.
(2) OJ No L 362, 27. 12. 1990, p. 28.
(3) OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21.
(4) OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 12. Regulation as amended by Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 2467/92 (OJ No L 246, 27. 8. 1992, p. 1).
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connection with the components would be out of proportion to their size
and they will not in fact be really necessary to protect the processingindustry in Portugal; whereas any difficulties that this may engender in
the rice sector, particularly sensitive in Portugal, can be resolved within
the framework of the transitional measures laid down;
Whereas this dismantling of the fixed components makes it appropriate
to abolish the variations indicated in Article 287 (2) of the Act ofAccession,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. Notwithstanding Articles 2, 3 and 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 3653/
90:
(a) the aid specified in Article 3 of that Regulation
— shall be granted to the end of the 2002/03 marketing year,
— shall be for each marketing year, fixed as set out in the Annex;
(b) the common intervention price for paddy rice shall apply in
Portugal;
(c) aid shall be granted to producers of paddy rice for the 1992/93,
1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97 and 1997/98 marketing years.
This aid, to which Article 5 and the first paragraph of Article 10shall apply, shall be:
— fixed at ECU 25 per tonne for the 1992/93 marketing year,
— reduced by 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3 and 1/2 for the 1993/94, 1994/95,
1995/96, 1996/97 and 1997/98 marketing years respectively;
(d) the fixed components in respect of the products referred to in Article
286 (3) of the Act of Accession are abolished.
2. The variations indicated in Article 287 (2) of the Act Accession are
also abolished.
Article 2
The measures needed to ensure a smooth transition from the
arrangements provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 3653/90 to thoseprovided for in this Regulation, particularly in respect of compensation
for stocks of rice in Portugal on 31 March 1993, shall be adopted in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation(EEC) No 2727/75(
1) or Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76(2).
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States.1993R0738 — EN — 01.06.2001 — 001.001 — 3
(1) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1738/92 (OJ No L 180, 1. 7. 1990, p. 1).
(2) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 7. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 674/
92 (OJ No L 73, 19. 3. 92, p. 7).
ANNEX
Aid to Portuguese cereal producers
(ECU/tonne)
1993/1994 1994/1995 1995/1996 1996/1997 1997/1998 1998/1999 1999/2000 2000/2001 2001/2002 2002/2003
Common wheat 97,97 89,58 81,00 72,25 63,26 54,02 44,46 34,51 ►M141,13◄ 12,81
Maize 52,33 47,09 41,86 36,63 31,40 26,16 20,93 15,70 ►M118,72◄ 5,23
Tritical, barley, rye 66,26 59,64 53,01 46,38 39,76 33,13 26,51 19,88 ►M123,69◄ 6,63
Grain sorghum 45,48 40,93 36,39 31,84 27,29 22,74 18,19 13,64 ►M116,25◄ 4,55▼B1993R0738 — EN — 01.06.2001 — 001.001 — 4