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Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No . . . 
of ... 
laying down general rules for the system of accession compensatory amounts applicable to 
cereals and rice during the second stage of the accession of Portugal 
(90/C 297/17) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, 
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and 
Portugal, and in particular Article 234 (2) thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 000/00 of . . . 
laying down transitional provisions for the common 
organization of the market in cereals and rice in 
Portugal (!) provides for the price of common wheat and of 
rice in Portugal to be different from the common price; 
whereas, pursuant to Article 240 of the Act of Accession, 
these price differences are to be offset by a system of 
accession compensatory amounts; 
Whereas accession compensatory amounts are intended to 
prevent disturbances to trade resulting from price 
differences; whereas the application of compensatory 
amounts is therefore not required where such disturbances 
are unlikely to occur; Whereas, in the case of products processed from cereals, 
the accession compensatory amounts must be calculated in 
accordance with Article 322 (2) of the Act of Accession as 
rectified (6); whereas the coefficients should be determined 
in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26 of 
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75; 
Whereas a certain amount of deflection of trade and 
distortion of competition may, in particular, occur in the 
final period of price alignment and when common prices 
are applied throughout the Community; whereas it is 
therefore justified that measures intended to prevent such 
deflection and distortion should apply for such time as is 
necessary, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
For the purposes of this Regulation: 
— 'accession compensatory amounts' means compensatory 
amounts applicable to trade between: 
— Portugal and the other Member States, 
— Portugal and third countries. 
Whereas, in the cereals and rice sector, the prices to be 
taken into consideration are the intervention prices; 
whereas, however, following the amendments to the 
intervention arrangements provided for in Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the 
common organization of the market in cereals (2), as last 
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1340/90 (3), and in 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 
on the common organization of the market in rice (4), as 
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1806/89 (5), 
buying-in is to be carried out at a level lower than the 
intervention price; whereas that level, which henceforth 
constitutes the actual guarantee to the producer, must 
accordingly serve as the basis for calculating the accession 
compensatory amounts; 
(') See page 28 of this Official Journal. 
(2) OJNoL281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. 
(3) OJ No L 134, 28. 5. 1990, p. 1. 
(4) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1. 
(5) OJ No L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1. Article 2 
1. For each marketing year the accession compensatory 
amount shall be: 
— for common wheat, equal to the difference between the 
buying-in price applicable in Portugal and the buying-in 
price applicable in the other Member States, 
— for paddy rice, equal to the difference between the 
buying-in price applicable in Portugal and the buying-in 
price applicable in the other Member States; this 
difference may be corrected in order to ensure 
comparability of the products taken into 
consideration, 
— for husked rice, that applicable to paddy rice converted 
by means of the conversion rate referred to in Article 1 
of Commission Regulation No 467/67/EEC (7), 
(6) OJ No L 116, 4. 5. 1988, p. 27. 
(7) OJ No L 204, 24. 8. 1967, p. 20. 
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for wholly-milled rice, that applicable to husked rice 
converted by means of the conversion rate referred to 
in Article 1 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC, 
for semi-milled rice, that applicable to wholly-milled 
rice converted by means of the conversion rate referred 
to in Article 1 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC, 
for broken rice, equal to the difference between the 
price of broken rice recorded on the Portuguese market 
and the threshold price fixed for this product in the 
Community. 
2. For the products referred to in Article 1 (c) and (d) of 
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75, the accession com­
pensatory amounts shall be derived from those applicable 
to the cereals to which they relate, with the help of 
coefficients to be determined on the basis of the impact on 
the price of the product concerned of the application of the 
compensatory amount to the price of the corresponding 
basic product. 
3. For the products referred to in Article 1 (c) of 
Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76, the accession 
compensatory amounts shall be derived from those 
applicable to broken rice with the help of coefficients to be 
determined on the basis of the impact on the price of the 
product concerned of the application of the compensatory 
amount to the price of broken rice. 
Article 3 Article 4 
1. The accssion compensatory amount applicable shall be 
that in force on the date of acceptance of the import or 
export declaration. 
2. However, where necessary, a decision may be taken in 
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 5 to 
introduce a system for the advance fixing of the accession 
compensatory amount. 
Article 5 
1. The following shall be determined in accordance with 
the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation (EEC) 
No 2727/75 or, as appropriate, Article 27 of Regulation 
(EEC) No 1418/76: 
(a) detailed rules for the granting and levying of accession 
compensatory amounts, particularly with a view to 
preventing deflection of trade and distortion of 
competition; 
(b) the coefficients provided for in Article 2 (2) and (3); 
(c) detailed rules for the application of this Regulation and 
in particular the fixing of accession compensatory 
amounts. 
2. Measures to prevent deflections of trade and distortion 
of competition may be applied, for the period deemed 
necessary, after the abolition of the accession 
compensatory amounts. 
In trade between Portugal and the other Member States, 
the accession compensatory amounts shall be charged or 
granted by Portugal. Article 6 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1991. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
States. 
Done at Brussels, 
For the Council