Commission proposal on the prices for agricultural products - Volume III - Legal instruments - Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 on the common organisation of the market in rice
Date: 2000-02-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: comitology, common agricultural policy, common organisation of markets, market intervention, rice

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2000/0046(CNS)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No . . .

of . . .

amending Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 on the common organisation of the market in rice

(2000/C 86 E/02)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Whereas:

the intervention price to be subject

(1) Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 (1), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 (2), provides
to monthly
for
increases. This mechanism seeks to take account, to some
extent, of storage costs and financing charges for storing
rice in the Community and of the need to ensure that
stocks are disposed of in line with market requirements.
In accordance with the approach followed for the reform of
the common organisation of the markets in connection
with Agenda 2000 and in order to enable producers to
organise their production over several years, the monthly
increases should be fixed without any limit in time, without
prejudice to any revisions that may be called for in the
future.
In particular given the stability of prices and
interest rates, the increases currently applicable should be
maintained.

(2) With an eye to simplification and legislative clarity, the
provisions of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 that are not
relevant should be deleted at the same time.

implementation of
this Regulation are management
measures within the meaning of Article 2 of Council
Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the
procedures
implementing powers
conferred on the Commission (3), they should be adopted
by use of
the management procedure provided for in
Article 4 of that Decision,

the exercise of

for

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 is amended as follows:

1. Article 3(2) is replaced by the following:

The intervention price shall be subject to monthly
(cid:145)2.
increases during each of
the four months specified in
Article 4(1). The price thus obtained for the month of
July shall remain valid until 31 August.

From the 2000/01 marketing year, each monthly increase
shall be equal to EUR 2/t.(cid:146)

2. Article 20 is deleted.

3. Article 22 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 22

1.
The Commission shall be assisted by the Management
Committee for Cereals established by Article 23 of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 on the common organisation
of the market in cereals.

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph,
the
management procedure laid down in Article 4 of Decision
1999/468/EC shall apply, in compliance with Article 7(3)
thereof.

The period provided for in Article 4(3) of Decision

3.
1999/468/EC shall be one month.(cid:146)

(3) Furthermore, in compliance with the provisions adopted by
the Council on the subject of comitology,
the corre-
sponding provisions of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95
should be amended. Since the measures necessary for the

Article 2

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

(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.

(3) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

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

Done at Brussels, . . .

For the Council

The President

. . .