1. 2. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 24/19 
II 
(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 
on the common organization of the market in cereals (') 
COM(90) 4 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to Article 149(2) of the EEC Treaty on 
18 January 1990) 
(90/C 24/14) 
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 of the Economic and 
Social Committee, 
Whereas Article 4b of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on 
the common organization of the market in cereals (2), as 
last amended by Regulation (ECC) No 3707/89 (J), 
provides for the payment of the maximum additional 
co-responsibility 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 
administrative complications throughout a substantial 
part of the marketing year; whereas they should 
acccordingly be replaced by arrangements which, while 
maintaining application of the levy during the same 
marketing year, enable the abovementioned difficulties to 
be avoided by deferring to the following marketing year 
some of the consequences of the determination of the 
level of production of a given marketing year; whereas 
that objective may be achieved by setting an additional 
co-responsibility levy equal to 1,5 % of the intervention 
price for common wheat which, after the first marketing 
year of application will be adjusted if necessary to take 
account of the percentage by which the production of 
the previous marketing year exceeds the maximum 
guaranteed quantity; whereas however this adjustment 
may not lead to the setting, for the marketing year in 
question, of an additional co-responsibility levy of more 
than 3 %, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Article 4b of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 in hereby 
amended as follows: 
1. Paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: 
'Where the cereal production from a marketing year 
exceeds the maximum guaranteed quantity referred to 
in paragraph 1, an additional co-responsibility levy 
shall be payable by producers, in proportion to the 
amount of the excess, within a limit of 3 %. It shall be 
set on the basis of the intervention price valid for 
common wheat at the beginning of the marketing 
year in question. 
Article 4(1), (4), (6) and (7) shall apply to this 
additional levy. 
This levy shall be applied in the following way: 
— a flat-rate levy of 1,5 % of the intervention price 
referred to above shall be applied from the 
beginning of the marketing year, 
— should the percentage by which the maximum 
guaranteed quantity, determined in accordance 
with paragraph 4, be different from the percentage 
of the flat-rate levy, the flat-rate levy for the 
following marketing year shall be increased or 
reduced by the difference between the two 
percentages within a limit of 1,5 %'. 
2. In paragraph 4, 'before 1 March' is replaced by 'in 
February'. 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European 
Communities. 
It shall apply with effect from the 1990/91 marketing 
year. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
(') OJ No C 260, 13. 10. 1989, p. 4. 
C) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. 
O OJ No L 363, 13. 12. 1989, p. 1.