CELEX: 51984PC0020(07)
Language: en
Date: 1984-01-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) OF AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) N* 2731/75 FIXING STANDARD QUALITIES FOR COMMON WHEAT, RYE, BARLEY, MAIZE AND DURUM WHEAT

No C 62/6                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                       5. 3. 84
                         Article 3                                  —    1 July 1984 in the case of the provisions of
                                                                         Article 1 (II),
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
day following its publication in the Official Journal               —    1 August 1984 in the case of the other provi-
of the European Communities.                                            sions.
It shall apply from:                                                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
                                                                    directly applicable in all Member States.
                                                              ANNEX
              Heading No 10.07 of the Common Customs Tariff shall be replaced by the following:
                                                                                              Rate of duty
                 Heading                          Description
                 number                                                          Autonomous %
                                                                                    or levy (L)       Conventional %
                    1                                 2                                  3                   4
                  10.07        Buckwheat, millet, canary seed and grain
                               sorghum; other cereals:
                               A. Buckwheat                                           10 (L)                 —
                               B. Millet                                                8(L)
                               C. Grain sorghum                                         8(L)
                               D. Other:
                                    I. Triticale (wheat/rye hybrid)                     8(L)
                                   II. Other                                            8(L)                 —
              Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2731/75 fixing
                      standard qualities for common wheat, rye, barley, maize and durum wheat
                                                           (84/C 62/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Having regard           to    the      proposal  from    the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        Commission,
                                                                    Having regard to the opinion of the European
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro-                  Parliament,
pean     Economic Community, and                   particular
Article 43 thereof,                                                 Whereas trends in the production and consumption
                                                                    of cereals require that conditions of intervention be
                                                                    reinforced in the long term; whereas this aim cannot
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        be achieved without introducing stricter require-
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organ-                     ments for the standard qualities and hence for the
ization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended               minimum quality stipulated for intervention; wher-
by Regulation (EEC) No 1451/82 (2), and in parti-                   eas for this purpose the moisture content should be
cular Article 3 (6) thereof,                                        reduced, the same moisture content should be laid
                                                                    down for maize, and the criterion of fibre content
                                                                    should be introduced for barley; whereas at the
(i) OJ No L 281,1. 11. 1975, p. 1.                                  same time the moisture content for the standard
O OJ No L 164, 14. 6. 1982, p. 1.                                   quality of durum wheat should also be laid down;
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Whereas an intervention price is to be fixed for                          — percentage of grain impurities: 4 %
sorghum from the 1984/85 marketing year; whereas                                ("grain impurities" means grains of
such a measure requires a standard quality to be                                other cereals, grains damaged by pests
defined;                                                                        and grains heated by drying),
                                                                          — percentage of sprouted grains: 1 %,
Whereas a certain number of technical improve-
ments should be made to the original text at the                          — percentage of miscellaneous impurities:
same time as the amendments referred to above,                                  1 % ("miscellaneous impurities" consist
                                                                                of weed seeds, damaged grains, extra-
                                                                                neous matter, husks, dead insects and
                                                                                fragments of insects);
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION.                                         (d) tannin content: 0,3 % by weight of dry mat-
                                                                          ter.'
                           Article 1
                                                                7.   Article 6 is replaced by the following:
Regulation (EEC) No 2731/75 is hereby amended
                                                                      'Article 6
as follows:
                                                                     For the purposes of this Regulation:
1.  The title is amended to read:
                                                                     (a) the matter, other than basic cereals of unim-
    ' . . . fixing standard qualities for common
                                                                           paired quality, shall be as defined in the
    wheat, rye, barley, maize, sorghum and durum
                                                                           Annex, save as otherwise provided for in
    wheat.'
                                                                           this Regulation;
2.  In point (b) of Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4, the mois-
                                                                     (b) the methods for determining:
    ture content given is changed to 15,5 %.
                                                                          — matter other than basic cereals of unim-
3.  In Article 5 (a) the word 'dry' is deleted.
                                                                                paired quality,
    A point (d), as follows, is added to Article 5:
    '(d) moisture content: 15,5 %.'                                       — moisture content,
4.  A point (e), as follows, is added to Article 3: '(e)                  — "mitadine" durum wheat grains,
    fibre content: 4,5 % by weight of dry matter.'
                                                                          — fibre content,
5.  The second indent of Article 4 (c) is replaced by
    the following:                                                        — tannin content,
    'percentage of grain impurities: 4 % ("grain
    impurities") means grains of other cereals,                           shall be determined in accordance with the
    grains damaged by pests and grains heated by                          procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regu-
    drying).'                                                             lation (EEC) No 2727/75.'
6.  The following Article is inserted:
                                                                8.   Annex I.B and Annex II to Regulation (EEC)
      'Article 4a                                                    No 2731/75 are hereby repealed. Annex LA
    The standard quality for which the target price                  becomes the Annex.
     and the intervention price for sorghum are fixed
     is defined as follows:
     (a) sorghum of a sound and fair marketable
            quality, free from abnormal smell and live                                    Article 2
            pests;
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
     (b) moisture content: 15,5 %;                              day following its publication in the Official Journal
                                                                of the European Communities.
     (c) total percentage of matter other than basic
            cereals of unimpaired quality: 8 %, which:
                                                                It shall apply from the beginning of the 1984/85
            — percentage of broken grains: 2 % ("bro-           marketing year for each of the products concerned.
                ken grains" means pieces of grain or
                grains which pass through a sieve with a
                circular mesh 1,8 millimetres in dia-           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
                meter),                                         directly applicable in all Member States.