Commission Regulation (EC) No 514/2006 of  30 March 2006  derogating from Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 as regards the period for delivering cereals into intervention in some Member States in the 2005/06 marketing year
Date: 2006-03-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, cereals, common organisation of markets, market intervention

31.3.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 93/31

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 514/2006

of 30 March 2006

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 as regards the period for delivering cereals into
intervention in some Member States in the 2005/06 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
are informed as
the delivery
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.

soon as possible of

The 2005/06 marketing year is the second 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 again led to a bumper harvest
in 2005 in the new Member States, resulting in domestic
market prices below the intervention price. As a result,
since the intervention period was opened in November
2005, relatively large quantities of cereals have been
intervention. Due to the large quantities
offered for

offered for intervention and their geographical spread,
it is not possible to comply with the delivery deadline
of 31 March 2006. 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 2005/06 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 seventh month following the month during
which the offer was received, and in any event not later than
31 July 2006.

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 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 21. Regulation as

(EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ

amended by
L 187,

Commission Regulation
19.7.2005, p. 11).

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

lation (EC) No 1068/2005 (OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 65).