Commission Regulation (EC) No 495/2005 of 30 March 2005 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 as regards the period for delivering cereals into intervention in some Member States in the 2004/2005 marketing year
Date: 2005-03-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, agricultural productivity, cereals, derogation from EU law, intervention agency, intervention price, market prices, production

31.3.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 82/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 495/2005

of 30 March 2005

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 as regards the period for delivering cereals into
intervention in some Member States in the 2004/2005 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of
29 September 2003 on the common organisation of
the
market in cereals (1), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Under Commission Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 of
19 April 2000 establishing procedures for the taking-
over of cereals by intervention agencies and laying
down methods of analysis for determining the quality
of cereals (2), should an offer be admissible, operators
the delivery
are be informed as soon as possible of
schedule. To this end, under Article 4(3) of that Regu-
lation the final delivery to the intervention centre for
which the offer is made must take place not later than
the end of the fourth month following the month during
which the offer was received.

The 2004/2005 marketing year is the first year of appli-
cation of the intervention mechanism for cereals in the
Member States which joined the European Community
on 1 May 2004.

Good weather conditions led to a bumper harvest in
2004 in the new Member States, resulting in domestic
market prices well below the intervention price. As a
result, since the intervention period was opened in
November 2004, relatively large quantities of cereals
have been offered for intervention. Due to the large

quantities offered for intervention and their geographical
spread,
it is not possible to comply with the delivery
deadline of 31 March 2005. To allow sufficient quantities
of cereals offered to be taken over, the delivery period
should be extended, and a derogation should therefore be
made from Regulation (EC) No 824/2000.

(4)

(5)

Given the urgency of the market situation, which requires
immediate measures, provision should be made for the
immediate application of the measures provided for in
this Regulation.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Notwithstanding the third subparagraph of Article 4(3) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 824/2000, in the 2004/2005 marketing year the
last delivery of cereals offered for intervention in the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia must take place not later than
the end of the sixth month following the month during which
the offer was received, and in any event not later than 31 July
2005.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 March 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78.
(2) OJ L 100, 20.4.2000, p. 31. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 777/2004 (OJ L 123, 27.4.2004, p. 50).