Commission Regulation (EC) No 420/98 of 20 February 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1756/93 fixing the operative events for the agricultural conversion rate applicable to milk and milk products
Date: 1998-02-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: farm prices, intervention stock, milk, milk product, production aid, representative rate

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 420/98

of 20 February 1998

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1756/93 fixing the operative events for the
agricultural conversion rate applicable to milk and milk products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

1756/93 should be amended to take account of these
amendments;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92
of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the
conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the
common agricultural policy (1), as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 150/95 (2), and in particular Article 6(2)
thereof,

fixes

the operative events

Whereas Part B of the Annex to Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 1756/93 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 569/96 (4),
applicable
pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 570/88 of
16 February 1988 on the sale of butter at reduced prices
and the granting of aid for butter and concentrated butter
for use in the manufacture of pastry products, ice-cream
and other foodstuffs (5), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 531/96 (6); whereas that Regulation was repealed
and replaced by Commission Regulation (EC) No
2571/97 (7) which introduces, inter alia, the possibility of
using cream to which no tracers have been added under
the aid arrangements; whereas Regulation (EEC) No

last

intervention on the market
as

Whereas Part D of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No
1756/93 fixes the operative events for storage costs to be
paid by the seller where butter or skimmed-milk powder
offered for public intervention do not fulfil the require-
ments laid down in Article 2 of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 454/95 of 28 February 1995 laying down detailed
rules
in butter and
for
cream (8),
amended by Regulation (EC) No
419/98 (9), and Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 322/96 of 22 February 1996 laying down detailed
rules of application for the public storage of skimmed-
milk powder (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
419/98; whereas the said storage costs are fixed with
reference to Article 7(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 3597/90 of 12 December 1990 on the accounting
rules for intervention measures involving the buying-in,
storage and sale of agricultural products by intervention
agencies (11), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1392/97 (12); whereas, in order to ensure consistency, the
abovementioned operative events should be replaced by a
reference to the operative event provided for in Article
7(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3597/90;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1756/93 is hereby amended as follows:

1.

in Part B.II, point 6 is replaced by the following:

Regulation

Amounts concerned

Agricultural conversion rate to be
applied

‘6.

(EC) No 2571/97

Tendering price accepted under
the tendering procedure referred
to in Article 16(2)(d)

Agricultural
plicable on the date of payment;’

conversion rate

ap-

(1) OJ L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 161, 2. 7. 1993, p. 48.
(4) OJ L 80, 30. 3. 1996, p. 48.
(5) OJ L 55, 1. 3. 1988, p. 31.
(6) OJ L 78, 28. 3. 1996, p. 13.
(7) OJ L 350, 20. 12. 1997, p. 3.

(8) OJ L 46, 1. 3. 1995, p. 1.
(9) See page 20 of this Official Journal.
(10) OJ L 45, 23. 2. 1996, p. 5.
(11) OJ L 350, 14. 12. 1990, p. 43.
(12) OJ L 190, 19. 7. 1997, p. 22.

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2.

in Part B.III, point 4 is replaced by the following:

Regulation

Amounts concerned

Agricultural conversion rate to be
applied

‘4.

(EC) No 2571/97

of

aid

accepted
A. Amount
under
tendering pro-
cedure referred to in Article
16(3)(d)

the

B. Amount

of

aid

reduction
referred to in the third sub-
paragraph of Article 22(4)

(i) Agricultural

conversion

rate
applicable on the first day of the
month in which the tracers
referred to in Article 6(1) are
added

(ii) Agricultural

conversion

rate
applicable on the first day of the
month in which the concen-
trated butter is manufactured in
accordance
Article
22(3)(b)(i)

with

(iii) Agricultural

conversion

rate
applicable on the first day of the
month in which the butter
tracers is incorporated
without
in the
intermediate products
referred to in Article 8 or the
final products
referred to in
Article 4(1)

(iv) Agricultural

conversion

rate
applicable on the first day of the
month in which the
cream
without
tracers is incorporated
in the final products referred to
in Article 4(1)(B).

the

where

However,
deadline
referred to in Article 11 is exceeded,
the agricultural conversion rate shall
be that applicable on the first day of
the month in which the deadline
expires.

Agricultural
conversion rate
plicable on the first day of
month in which the
referred to in Article 11 expires.’;

ap-
the
deadline

3.

4.

in point 2.A, Part D, the words ‘Agricultural conversion rate applicable on the date of
taking over within the meaning of Article 5(1)’ are replaced by ‘Agricultural conversion
rate referred to in Article 7(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 3597/90’;

in point 3.A, Part D, the words ‘Agricultural conversion rate applicable on the date of
taking over of the goods concerned’ are replaced by ‘Agricultural conversion rate
referred to in Article 7(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 3597/90’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities.

However, Article 1(1) and (2) shall apply to invitations to tender with a deadline for the
submission of tenders after 1 January 1998.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 20 February 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission