A4-0173/97

Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing the monthly increases in the intervention price for cereals for the 1997/98 marketing year (COM(97)0089 - C4-0114/97 - 97/0087(CNS))

The proposal was approved with the following amendments:

(Amendment 1)

Recital 2a (new)

>Text following EP vote>

Whereas the quality criteria for the acceptance of cereals into intervention affect both the market price and the monthly increases; whereas the provision that under certain conditions cereals with a 15% moisture content can be placed into intervention ends with the 1996/97 marketing year; whereas it would be advisable to continue this provision in the 1997/98 marketing year; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 689/92(1) should therefore be extended;

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(1) OJ L 74, 20.3.1992, p. 18.

(Amendment 2)

Recital 3a (new)

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Whereas there has been a decline in gross margin of protein crops over the last two years; whereas an improvement in the support system is therefore necessary in order to ensure a comparison in profitability with other arable crops,

(Amendment 3)

Article 1

>Original text>

Without prejudice to the last subparagraph of Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92, for the 1997/98 marketing year, the monthly increases to be applied to the intervention price applicable for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows:

(Table)

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Without prejudice to the last subparagraph of Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92, for the 1997/98 marketing year, the monthly increases to be applied to the intervention price applicable for the first month of the marketing year, shall be the same as in the 1996/97 marketing year.

Deleted

(Amendment 4)

Article 1a (new)

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Article 1a

The Commission shall submit a proposal for the extension of Regulation (EEC) No 689/92 for the 1997/98 marketing year which shall continue the current provisions with regard to the maximum moisture content for cereals taken into intervention for the 1997/98 marketing year.

Legislative resolution embodying Parliament's opinion on the proposal for a Council Regulation fixing the monthly increases in the intervention price for cereals for the 1997/98 marketing year (COM(97)0089 - C4-0114/97 - 97/0087(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

- having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council, COM(97) 0089 - 97/0087(CNS) ((OJ C 101, 27.3.1997, p. 1.)),

- having been consulted by the Council (C4-0114/97),

- having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure,

- having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the opinions of the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on External Economic Relations, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Development and Cooperation (A4-0173/97),

1. Approves the Commission proposal, subject to Parliament's amendments;

2. Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

3. Asks to be consulted again should the Council intend to make substantial modifications to the Commission proposal;

4. Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission.