COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVIUNITIES 
C0M(94) 150 final 
:.:&.:• Brussels, 18.04.1994 
«IB 94/ 0067(CNS) 
ADDITIONAL REPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF THE 
MILK QUOTA SCHEME IN ITALY 
(presented by the Commission) 
Amended proposal for a 94/ 0067(CNS) 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 
amending Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 establishing an additional 
levy In the milk and milk products sector 
(presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 A (2) 
of the EC-Treaty) 
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ADDITIONAL REPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF THE 
MILK QUOTA SCHEME IN ITALY 
The Commission Indicated In paragraph 14 of Its report (COM (94) 64 
final), adopted on 2 March, that the checks on the individual 
quotas allocated to milk producers in Italy had to be finalised by 
the end of March, following which the quotas to be allocated to 
producers for the start of the 1994/95 marketing year could be 
notified. 
The report also stressed (paragraph 27) that the overall amount of 
quotas originally allocated for 1993/94 (12.1 ml'l I ion tonnes) had 
already been reduced by 0.6 ni 11 ion tonnes as a result of the 
Initial checks. 
As promised, the Italian authorities sent the Commission on 
22 March last the definitive results of the checks carried out on 
production in 1988/89, 1991/92 and 1993/94 in respect of each 
producer to whom quotas had originally been allocated (165 000 in 
all). 
The results for each item were checked in detail by the EAGGF 
departments, first of all In Brussels and then in Rome. It should 
be recalled that the authorities in Rome, with the assistance of 
Financial Control, had carried out on several occasions during 1993 
checks on the producers to ensure that the checks made by AIMA were 
properly done. 
The figures on the basis of which a decision can now be taken, and 
the interpretation thereof, were jointly agreed in Brussels on 
11 April by the Italian Minister for Agriculture and the Member of 
the Commission with responsibility for Agriculture. 
The position, in short, is as follows: 
(i) The quantity that can be allocated to producers in the 
forthcoming 1994/95 marketing year, In accordance with the 
Italian law on the application of quotas, amounts to 9 632 030 
tonnes (of which 455 389 tonnes for direct sales). 
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This figure, compared to the initial quota allocation (11 472 
million tonnes) reflects the reductions made as a result of 
abandoning dairy farming, programmes for buying back quotas 
and the restrictions imposed by Italian law. 
(II) The severity of the Italian law - only those producers able to 
furnish the inspectors with documented fiscal proof of their 
supplies and/or sales could apply for a quota and only for the 
quantities thus confirmed - has debarred a number of producers 
from obtaining a quota or, even where producers have received 
one, part of their production. 
To these producers can be added others not recorded by UNALAT 
and who have thus not been allocated quotas, although they may 
perhaps be eligible. 
This further production could amount to between 5 and 10% of 
the quotas, i.e. between 500 000 and 1 million tonnes. 
Legal proceedings have already started in some 3 000 cases 
and others will most likely follow when the quotas for the 
1994/95 marketing year are allocated. The Italian Government 
will have to face this Issue. 
4. The Commission notes that Italy has taken the expected steps to 
apply quotas in the milk sector and notes that the checks carried 
out by Italy and confirmed by the EAGGF now allow the position to 
be seen in a new light. The Commission accordingly proposes that 
the Council should approve for 1994/95 an overall guaranteed 
quantity of 9 632 030 tonnes increased by a specific reserve of 
298.030 tonnes*1> with a view to allocating where necessary the 
reference quantities to producers who have started legal 
proceedings against the national administration as a result of 
their reference quantities being withdrawn. The allocation will be 
made with the agreement of the Commission and Insofar as Judgments 
In the said proceedings find for the producers. 
(1) Giving a total quantity of 9.930.060 tonnes. 
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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVIUNITIES 
Amended proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 
amending Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 establishing an additional 
levy In the milk and milk products sector 
(presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 A (2) 
of the EC-Treaty) 
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
On 24 March 1994, the Commission transmitted to the Council a proposal for a 
Regulation intended in particular to amend the amount of the guaranteed 
total quantities In the milk and milk products sector with effect from 
1 Apr!I 1994. 
The Commission subsequently adopted a Regulation concerning a technical 
adjustment to those quantities to take account of changes In marketing 
methods which occurred during the 1993/94 period and these adjustments, 
applicable from 1 April 1993, should be taken Into account when the amount 
of the total quantities Is fixed with effect from 1 April 1994. 
Account also needs to be taken of the results of the exhaustive checks which 
have just been completed in Italy by Increasing for 1994/95 the Commission's 
initial proposal In respect of the guaranteed total quantity for deliveries 
by an amount which Includes a specific reserve to be used under certain 
cond i 11ons. 
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94/ 0067(CMS) 
Amended proposai tTor a l ' 
(EC! COUNCIL REGULATION 
amending Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 establishing an additional 
levy In the milk and milk products 3Cctor 
The Commission transmitted to the Council the proposal referred to above 
on 24 March 1994. 
Commission Regulation (EC) No 647/94, published In Official Journal No L 80, 
adjusted the guaranteed total quantities fixed in Article 3 of Council 
regulation (QIC) No 3950/92 with effect from 1 April 1993. In addition, 
account needs to be taken of the exhaustive checks that have just been 
completed in Italy. The Commission's initial proposal mu3t therefore be 
amended as foi lows: 
(i) in the second recital the words "of tne latter two MemDer states" are 
replaced by the words "the three Member Statee" and the worde "in the 
case of Greece" are replaced by "In the case or Italy and Greece". 
(2) The fourth recital Is replaced by Hie following: 
"Whcrcao the checlcs carried out in Italy have covered all milk 
producers, thereby enabling the guaranteed total auantity grant«d for 
1003/94 to be justifiably increased for 1994/9 5; whereas, however, part 
or this increase, i.e. 298 030 tonnes, should be held in reserve with a 
view to allocating where appropriate reference quantities to producers 
once certain conditions have been fulfilled:" 
(Ea> In the fifth recital, in Lhe lail phrase of the sentence the figure of 
"550 000 tonnes" is replaced by THP figure of M9D0 000 tonnes" 
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(3) in Article 1 of the proposal: 
the table In Article 3(2)(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 is 
replaced by the following: 
(tonnes) 
Member States Deliveries Direct sales 
Belgium 3 066 337 244 094 
Denmark 4 454 459 889 
Germany*1> 27 764 778 100 038 
Greece 625 985 4 528 
Spain 5 200 000 366 950 
France 23 637 283 598 515 
Ireland 5 233 805 11 959 
Italy 9 212 190 717 870 
Luxembourg 268 098 951 
Netherlands 10 983 195 91 497 
Portugal 1 804 881 67 580 
United Kingdom 14 247 283 342 764 
(1) 6 244 566 tonnes of which for deliveries to purchasers 
established on the territory of the new Lander and 8 801 tonnes 
of which for direct sales in the new Lander." 
Article 3(2)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 is replaced by the 
fol lowing: 
"For the period 1 April 1994 to 31 March 1995 and subsequent 
periods: 
(tonnes) 
Member States Deliveries Direct sales 
Belgium 3 035 674 241 653 
Denmark 4 409 914 880 
Germany*1> 27 487 130 99 038 
Greece 619 725 4 483 
Spain 5 148 000 363 281 
France 23 400 910 592 530 
Ireland 5 181 467 11 839 
Italy 9 120 068 710 691 
Luxembourg 265 417 941 
Netherlands 10 873 363 90 582 
Portugal 1 786 832 66 904 
United Kingdom 14 104 810 339 336 
(1) 6 182 120 tonnes of which for deliveries to purchasers 
established on the territory of the new Lender and 8 713 tonnes 
of which for direct sales In the new Lender." 
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The Increase in the total guaranteed quantities for deliveries for 
1993/94 shall be granted in the case of Spain and carried over in the 
case of Greece and Italy for the period 1994/95. The total guaranteed 
quantity in respect of deliveries in Italy shall include a reserve of 
298 030 tonnes with a view to allocating, where necessary and with 
the agreement of the Commission, reference quantities to producers 
who have Instituted legal proceedings against the national 
authorities as a result of having their reference quantities 
withdrawn and who win their case. Before the period 1995/96, the 
Commission will send the Council a report accompanied by proposals on 
whether the increase in the case of Greece and the size of the 
increase in the case of Italy should be continued in 1995/96 and 
subsequent years." 
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