Commission proposal on the prices for agricultural products - Volume III - Legal instruments - Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat
Date: 2000-02-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: basic price, carcase, comitology, pigmeat, prices policy

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Official Journal of the European Communities

24.3.2000

2000/0050(CNS)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No . . .

of . . .

amending Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat

(2000/C 86 E/07)

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,

for

Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the
procedures
implementing powers
conferred on the Commission (5), they should be adopted
by use of
the management procedure provided for in
Article 4 of that Decision,

the exercise of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 is amended as follows:

1. Article 4(1) is replaced by the following:

Whereas:

(1) Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 (1), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (2), provides
for a basic price to be fixed annually for certain presen-
tations of meat of domestic swine. In accordance with the
approach followed for the reform of the common organi-
sation of the markets in connection with Agenda 2000 and
longer-term
in order to enable producers to work out
production plans, the basic price should be fixed without
any limit in time, without prejudice to any revisions that
may be called for in the future.

(2) The basic price must be set at a level that helps to stabilise
formation of

market prices without
leading to the
structural surpluses within the Community.

(3) The basic price must be fixed for a standard quality defined
in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3220/84 of 13 November
1984 determining the Community scale for grading pig
carcases (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No
3513/93 (4).

(4) Furthermore, in compliance with the provisions adopted by
the corre-
the Council on the subject of comitology,
sponding provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75
should be amended. Since the measures necessary for the
implementation of
this Regulation are management
measures within the meaning of Article 2 of Council

(1) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105.
(3) OJ L 301, 20.11.1984, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 320, 22.12.1993, p. 5.

in
The basic price for meat of domestic swine,
to
as
shall be

(cid:145)1.
carcases
(cid:147)slaughtered pigs(cid:148), of
EUR 1 509,39/t from 1 July 2000.

or half-carcases, hereinafter

standard quality

referred

the

The standard quality shall be defined in terms of the weight
and lean-meat content of pig carcases, determined in
accordance with Article 2(2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC)
No 3220/84 as follows:

(cid:151) carcases weighing from 60 to less than 120 kg: grade E,

(cid:151) carcases weighing from 120 to 180 kg: grade R.(cid:146)

2. Article 4(4) is deleted.

3. Article 23 is deleted.

4. Article 24 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 24

1.
The Commission shall be assisted by a committee, the
Management Committee for Pigmeat, composed of represen-
tatives of the Member States and chaired by the represen-
tative of the Commission.

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.

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

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

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

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, . . .

For the Council

The President

. . .