Commission Regulation (EC) No 2108/2005 of  21 December 2005  amending Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 on the transfer and sale on the Portuguese market of  80000  tonnes of common wheat,  80000  tonnes of maize and  40000  tonnes of barley held by the Hungarian intervention agency
Date: 2005-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Hungary, Portugal, barley, common wheat, domestic market, intervention agency, maize, originating product, sale

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2108/2005

of 21 December 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 on the transfer and sale on the Portuguese market of
80 000 tonnes of common wheat, 80 000 tonnes of maize and 40 000 tonnes of barley held by
the Hungarian intervention agency

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

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:

On account of weather conditions in Portugal during the
2004/05 marketing year which led to severe drought, the
Commission adopted Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 (2)
authorising the transfer and sale on the Portuguese
market of certain quantities of cereals held by the
Hungarian intervention agency.

In view of the situation on the Portuguese market, and in
particular of the prolonged effects of the drought on the
Portuguese agricultural economy and on the conditions
for the supply of cereals to economic operators on satis-
factory terms, a favourable response should be given to
the
by
authorising the supply of cereals to all the economic
operators concerned.

Portuguese

from the

authorities

request

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(7)

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 of Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 provides that
the transport of
the products to Portugal and their
disposal for use as animal feed must take place before
31 December 2005.

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 is amended as follows:

Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 reserves the
sale of cereals exclusively for cattle, sheep and goat
farmers’ associations or cooperatives and processing
plants that have concluded cooperation contracts with
those associations or cooperatives.

contract,

the Portuguese

administrative delays

in arranging the
Because of
transport
authorities have
requested the extension of the deadline for the transfer,
sale on the Portuguese market and disposal of
the
products to 30 April 2006. They have also requested
that sales may be extended to all the sectors concerned
by the drought which affected the Portuguese agricultural
economy.

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78. Regulation as

(EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ

amended by
L 187,

Commission Regulation
19.7.2005, p. 11).

(2) OJ L 156, 18.6.2005, p. 8.

1. In Article 1(2), ‘31 December 2005’ is replaced by ‘30 April

2006’.

2. In Article 7,
following:

the second paragraph is replaced by the

‘In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
2131/93, the sale shall be reserved exclusively for the use
of the cereals in Portugal.’

Article 2

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission