No C 260/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 13. 10. 89 
Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the 
common organization of the market in cereals 
COM(89) 449 final 
(Submitted by the Commission on 27 September 1989) 
(89/C 260/04) 
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 proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion the Economic and Social 
Committee, 
Whereas Article 4b of the abovementioned Regulation 
provides for the payment of the maximum additional 
levy at the beginning of the marketing year and, where 
appropriate, for its reimbursement in full or in part 
depending on the definitive harvest recorded; 
Whereas the abovementioned arrangements lead to 
uncertainty and administrative complications throughout 
a substantial part of the marketing year; whereas they 
should accordingly be replaced by arrangements which, 
while providing for the application from the beginning of 
the marketing year of the highest level of the additional 
levy, enable the levy actually due for the marketing year 
in question to be determined quickly and sums collected 
in excess to be reimbursed; 
Whereas such arrangements may be established by 
making the levy applicable to the marketing year in 
question and the level of reimbursements to be made 
dependent on a provisional determination of the harvest 
to be made before 1 September; 
Whereas, however, in the framwork of such 
arrangements, the stabilizing effect desired could not be 
achieved without applying during the following 
marketing year corrective percentages arising from the 
definitive recording of the harvest to be made before 1 
March; whereas, in order to ensure that the objectives 
sought are achieved, the contemplated corrections must 
relate to the basic co-responsibility levy, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 is hereby amended as 
follows: 
1. Article 4b (4) is replaced by the following: 
'4. For the purposes of applying this Article, each 
year the Commission shall establish: 
— provisionally, before 1 September, whether or not 
the cereal production from the current marketing 
year has exceeded the maximum guaranteed 
quantity fixed for that marketing year; such deter­
mination shall result in the consequences referred 
to in paragraph 2 of this Article for the current 
marketing year, 
— definitively, before 1 March, whether or not the 
cereal production from the current marketing year 
has exceeded the maximum guaranteed quantity 
fixed for that marketing year; such determination 
shall result in the consequences referred to in 
paragraph 3 of this Article and, where appro­
priate, to an adjustment of the co-responsibility 
levy as referred to in Article 4, and applicable for 
the following marketing year. The amount of that 
adjustment shall, within a limit of 3 %, be equal 
to the difference expressed as a percentage 
between the determination referred to in the first 
indent and that referred to in this indent, to be 
applied to the intervention price applicable to 
breadmaking common wheat at the beginning of 
the preceding marketing year.' 
2. Article 4b (5) is replaced by the following: 
'5. Detailed rules for the application of this Article 
and in particular the amount of the additional levy 
and any adjustment as provided for in the second 
indent of paragraph 4 shall be adopted in accordance 
with the procedure laid down in Article 26.' 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of 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.