COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1581/93 of 23 June 1993 setting for the 1993/94 marketing year the threshold prices and monthly increases for certain categories of flour, groats and meal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the market in cereals (1), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

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 (2), and in particular Article 9 (1) thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1580/93 of 23 June 1993 setting standard qualities for certain cereals and categories of flour, groats and meal and the threshold prices for those categories of products (3);

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 sets the target and threshold prices for cereals for the 1993/94 marketing year;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92, the threshold prices for wheat, meslin and rye flour and groats and meal of wheat must be set according to the rules and for the standard qualities laid down in Articles 6 to 9 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1580/93;

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1330/93 (5), establishes the list of prices and amounts in the cereals sector which are affected by the reducing coefficient of 1,013088 fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1331/93 (6), with effect from the commencement of the 1993/94 marketing year, under the arrangements for automatically dismantling negative monetary gaps; whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 provides for the resulting reduction in prices and amounts to be specified for each sector concerned and the value of these reduced prices and amounts to be fixed; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 fixes the intervention, target and threshold prices for cereals and the minimum price for potato starch for an indefinite period;

Whereas the reducing coefficient should be applied to the threshold prices for cereal flour, groats and meal and, for the sake of clarity, it should be incorporated directly into the calculation;

Whereas the calculations effected pursuant to these rules produce the prices indicated below;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Without prejudice to the last subparagraph of Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92, for the 1993/94 marketing year, the threshold prices for the products, with the exception of malt, referred to in Article 1 (c) of the said Regulation shall be fixed as follows:

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Article 2

The following monthly increases shall be applied to the prices indicated in Article 1:

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Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 July 1993.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 June 1993.

For the Commission

René STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21.

(2) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.

(3) See page 14 of this Official Journal.

(4) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 29.

(5) OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 113.

(6) OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 114.