CELEX: 31987R3154
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3154/87 of 22 October 1987 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

23 . 10 . 87                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 300/25
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3154/87
                                                         of 22 October 1987
                                         fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Whereas a supplement to the target price for 'double zero
                                                                      colza and rape seed was fixed in Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       1917/87 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European "
Economic Community,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    Whereas the abatement of the subsidy which arises, where ,
Portugal,
                                                                      appropriate, from the system of maximum guaranteed
                                                                      quantities for the 1987/88 marketing year, has been fixed
                                                                      by Commission Regulations (EEC) No 2292/87 (9) and
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of                  (EEC) No 2295/87 (10) ;
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common
organization of the market in oils and fats (') as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1915/87 (2) and in
particular Article 27 (4) thereof,
                                                                      Whereas the standard quality for sunflower seed has been
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           changed by the Council for the 1987/88 marketing year ;
1678 /85 (3) fixing the conversion rates to be applied in             whereas the coefficients of equivalence applied to the
agriculture, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    prices of sunflower seed from third countries have been
2594/87 (4),                                                           fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2869/87 (u) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72
of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures for colza,
rape and sunflower seed (*), as last amended by Regulation            Whereas Article 29 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
(EEC) No 1869/87 (^ and in particular Article 2 (3)
thereof,
                                                                       provides that the world market price, calculated for a
                                                                       Community frontier crossing point, is to be determined
                                                                       on the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportuni­
                                                                       ties, quotations being adjusted where necessary to take
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,                account of quotations for competing products ;
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC
provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of oil
seeds harvested and processed within the Community
when the target price for a species of seed is higher than            "Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/67/EEC
the price on the world market ; whereas these provisions               of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for determining
at present apply only in respect of colza, rape and                    world market prices for oil seeds and fixing the frontier
sunflower seeds ;                                                      crossing point (12), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                       No 1983/82 (13), fixed the said crossing point at
                                                                       Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that Regulation provides
Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically, be             that when the world market price is being determined
equal to the difference between those two prices ;                     account should be taken of all offers on the world market
                                                                       known to the Commission and of quotations on those
                                                                       exchanges which are significant for international trade ;
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in the              whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 225/
target price for colza, rape and sunflower seed for the                67/EEC of 28 June 1967 on detailed rules for determi­
 1987/88 marketing year were fixed by Regulations (EEC)                ning the world market price for oil seeds (14), as last
No 1917/87 0 and (EEC) No 1918 /87 (8)                                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2869/87, provides that
                                                                       offers and quotations which do not relate to shipments to
                                                                       be effected within 30 days following the date on which
(') OJ   No  172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/ 66.
(2) OJ   No  L 183 , 3 . 7. 1987, p. 7.
 3) OJ   No  L 164, 24. 6 . 1985, p. 11 .                              O OJ    No L 209 , 31 . 7. 1987, p. 40 .
(4) OJ   No  L 245, 29 . 8 . 1987, p. 11 .                             H OJ    No  L 209, 31 . 7. 1987, p. 43 .
O   OJ   No  L 167, 25 . 7. 1972, p. 9 .                               (") OJ  No  L 273, 26 . 9 . 1987, p. 16.
(«) OJ   No  L 176, 1 . 7. 1987, p. 30.                                (t2) OJ No  111 , 10 . 6 . 1967, p. 2196/67.
O OJ No L 183, 3 . 7. 1987, p. 14.                                     (13) OJ No  L 215, 23 . 7. 1982, p. 6.
 8 OJ No L 183 , 3 . 7. 1987, p . 16.                                  H OJ    No  136, 30 . 6. 1967, p. 2919/67.
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the world market price is determined should be disre­            be determined in accordance with Article 6 of that
garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the                 Regulation ;
Commission believes, in view of general price movements
or information available to it, not to be representative of
the real trend of the market must also be disregarded ;
whereas offers and quotations relating to quantities of less     Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides
than 500 tonnes and offers relating to seed of a quality         that, where 'no offer or quotation can be used as a basis
other than that normally acceptable on the world market          for determining the world market price and where it is,
must also be disregarded ;                                       moreover, impossible to establish the value of the oil or
                                                                 oil cake processed from such seed, the world market price
                                                                 should be determined on the basis of the most recent
                                                                 known value for oil or oil cake? adjusted to take account
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides           of the trend of world prices for competing products by
that of the offers and quotations taken into consideration,      applying to that value the rules set out in Article 2 of
those for delivery c and f should be increased by 0,2 % ;        Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regula­
whereas offers and quotations for delivery fas, fob or           tion No 225/67/EEC defines competing products as those
othefwise should be increased, as appropriate, by loading,       oils or oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have
transport and insurance costs from the point of shipment         been offered in the largest quantities on the world market
or loading to the frontier crossing point ; whereas cif          during the period under consideration ;
offers and quotations for frontier crossing points other
than Rotterdam should be adjusted to allow for the diffe­
rence in transport and insurance costs as compared with a
product delivered cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commis­            Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC,
sion should take account only of the loading, transport          the price determined for colza, rape and sunflower seeds
and insurance costs which to its knowledge are the               must also be adjusted by an amount not exceeding the
lowest ; whereas, finally, offers and quotations for delivery    margin, as calculated in accordance with that Article,
cif Rotterdam should be increased by 0,242 ECU ;                 where that margin may affect the normal disposal of seeds
                                                                 harvested in the Community ;
Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides :
that the world market price should be determined for             Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14
seed of the standard quality for which the target price has :    June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds ('), as amended by
been fixed, delivered in bulk ;                                  Regulation (EEC) No 935/86 (2), laid down rules for gran­
                                                                  ting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas, under that Regula­
                                                                  tion, where the subsidy to be granted is fixed in advance,
                                                                  the amount of such subsidy must be equal to the amount
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides            applicable on the day on which the application for
 that offers and quotations relating to products presented        advance fixing was lodged, adjusted by the difference
otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted by deducting            between the target price valid on that day and the target
 the additional value resulting from that presentation ;          price valid on the day on which the seeds are placed
whereas offers and quotations relating to a quality other         under control at an oil or feed mill and, where appro­
 than the standard quality for which the target price was         priate, a corrective amount ; whereas Article 35 of
 fixed should be adjusted on the basis of the coefficients of     Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21
 equivalence shown in the Annex to that Regulation ;              September 1983 laying down detailed rules for the appli­
whereas, in the case of offers on the world market for            cation of the subsidy system for oil seeds (3), as last
 qualities of colza and rape seed other than those listed in      amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3074/87 (4), provides
 that Annex, coefficients of equivalence derived from those       that such adjustment should involve increasing or redu­
 listed in that Annex may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regula­       cing the amount of subsidy applicable on the day on
 tion No 225/67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived           which the application was lodged by the corrective
 coefficients are being calculated, account must be taken of      amount and the difference between the target prices
 the differences between prices for the qualities of seed in      mentioned in Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No
 question and prices for the qualities listed in that Annex,      2681 / 83 ;
 and of the characteristics of these various seeds ;
                                                                  Whereas Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides           provides that the corrective amount must be equal to the
 that, where no offer qr quotation can be used as a basis         difference between the world market price for colza, rape
 for determining the world market price, that price should        and sunflower seeds and the forward price for those seeds
 be determined on the basis of the value of the average           valid for a shipment effected during the month in which
 quantities of oil and oil cake resulting from the proces­        the seeds were placed under control at an oil mill, those
 sing of 100 kilograms of seed within the Community less          prices being determined in accordance with Articles 1 , 4
 an amount corresponding to the cost of processing these
 seeds into oil and oil cake ; whereas the quantities and
 costs to be taken into consideration for the purposes of         0)  OJ  No  L 163, 22.  6. 1983, p. 44.
                                                                  (2) OJ  No  L 87, 2. 4.  1986, p. 5.
 the calculation are fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No          (3) OJ  No  L 266, 28 . 9 . 1983, p. 1 .
 225/67/EEC ; whereas the value of those quantities should        (4) OJ  No  L 291 , 15. 10 . 1987, p. 12.
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and 5 of Regulation No 1 1 5/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer           (a) for those Member States whose currencies are main­
and no price can be used for such determination, the                      tained as between themselves within a spread at any
method of calculation provided for in Article 37 of Regu­                 given moment of 2,25% , the difference between :
lation (EEC) No 2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the
                                                                          — the      conversion  rate  used  under   the  common
abovementioned difference may be adjusted in accordance
with Article 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account                      agricultural policy, and
being taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ;                 — the conversion rate resulting from the central rate,
                                                                     (b) for the other Member States, the difference between :
                                                                          — the relationship between the conversion rate used
                                                                              under the common agricultural policy for the
Whereas the aid for colza, rape or sunflower seed                             currency of the Member State concerned and the
harvested or processed in Spain or Portugal is to be                          central   rate  of each   of the  currencies  of the
advised as provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Member States referred to 'in (a), and
478/86 (') ; whereas pursuant to Article 95 (2) and 293 (2)
of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal this aid is                 — the spot market rate for the currency of the
to be introduced at the beginning of the 1986/87 marke­                       Member State in question in relation to each of
ting year for seed harvested in these two Member States ;                     the currencies of the Member States referred to in
                                                                              (a), as recorded over a period to be determined ;
                                                                     Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 specifies the spot
                                                                     and forward exchange rates and the period to be used for
Whereas, in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                calculating the differential amounts ; whereas in cases
475/86 (2) of 25 February 1986 laying down general rules             where, for one or more months, quotations of forward
for the mechanism for controlling the prices and the                  exchange rates are not available, the rates adopted for the
quantities of certain products in the oils and fats sector            previous months or the following months, as the case may
released for consumption in Spain provision is made for               be, must be used ;
the granting of compensatory aid, subject to certain
conditions ; whereas compensatory aid should be fixed for
sunflower seeds harvested in Spain ;                                 Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the
                                                                      market situation makes it necessary and in such a way as
                                                                      to ensure its being applied at least once a week ; whereas
                                                                      the subsidy may be altered whenever it becomes obvious
                                                                      that such alteration is necessary ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1920/87 (3),
provides for the granting of a special subsidy for                    Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the
sunflower seed harvested and processed in Portugal ;                  offers and quotations known to the Commission that,
whereas the amount of this subsidy should be fixed ;                  pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83
                                                                      the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the amount of the
                                                                      subsidy in each of the national currencies must be fixed
                                                                      in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation ;
                                                                      whereas, pursuant to the same Article, the spot and
                                                                      forward exchange rates for the ECU in national currencies
Whereas Article 33 of Regulation "(EEC) No 2681 /83                   determined in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation
 provides for the publication of the amount of the final              (EEC) No 1813/84 must also be published,
subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the
 national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting from
 the calculation referred to above plus or minus the diffe­
 rential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Commission Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1813/84 (4), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2138/87 (*), defined the elements which deter­
 mine the differential amounts ; whereas these elements               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 are equal to the incidence on the target price less 7,5 %
 or the subsidy of the coefficient derived from the percen­
 tage referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1569/72 ; whereas, according to these provisions, this
 percentage represents :                                                                         Article 1
 (') OJ  No  L 53, 1 . 3 . 1986, p.  55.
(2)  OJ  No  L 53, 1 . 3 . 1986, p.  47.
(3)  OJ  No  L 183, 3 . 7. 1987.                                       1 . The amounts of the subsidy and the exchange rates
(4)  OJ  No  L 170 , 29 . 6 . 1984, p. 41                             referred to in Article 33 (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC)
H    OJ  No  L 200 , 21 . 7. 1987,  p. 9 .                            No 2681 /83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
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    2. The amount of the compensatory aid referred to in                    harvested and processed in Portugal is fixed in Annex III .
    Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 475/86 shall be as
    shown in Annex III to this Regulation for sunflower seed
                                                                                                        Article 2
    harvested in Spain .
    3 . The amount of the special subsidy provided                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 October
    for by Regulation (EEC) 1920/87 for sunflower seed                      1987 .
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable m all Member
                      States .
                      Done at. Brussels, 22 October 1987 .
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                            Vice-President
                                                                 ANNEX I
                                          Aids to colza and rape seed other than 'double zero'
                                                                                                                     (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                 Current       1 st period         2nd period      3rd period     4th period        5th period
                                                    10              11 ■               12               1              2                 3
1 . Gross aids (ECU) :                                                        I
    — Spain                                          0,000            0,000             0,000            0,000          0,000             0,000
    — Portugal                                       0,000            0,000             0,000            0,000          0,000             0,000
    — Other Member States                           24,306          24,103             23,025          23,601         23,407             23,804
2. Final aids :                              1                                l
    (a) Seed harvested and processed in :                                                                       \
        — Federal Republic of Germany                                         \
            (DM)                                    58,87           58,42              55,97           57,42          57,00            • 58,25
        — Netherlands (Fl)                          65,47           64,94              62,12           63,75          63,26              64,62
        — BLEU (Bfrs/ Lfrs)                      1 165,37        1 155,48           1 103,34        1 130,46       1 120,98          1 135,31
        — France (FF)                              176,76          175,01             166,15          170,07         168,37             172,03
        — Denmark (Dkr)                            210,49          208,61             198,91          203,99         202,19             203,89
        — Ireland (£ Irl)                           19,647          19,453             18,491          18,947         18,760             19,010
        — United Kingdom (£)                        14,211           13,999            13,097          13,499         13,293             13,428
        — Italy (Lit)                           37 482        37 095               35 095          35 871         35 490           35 924
        — Greece (Dr)                            2 435,80        2 356,09           2 130,86        2 182,15       2 124,04          2 105,27
    (b) Seed harvested     in  Spain   and   I             ||                                   \
        processed :                                                                                             ||
        — in Spain (Pta)                             0,00             0,00              0,00              0,00          0,00               0,00
        — in another Member State (Pta)          3 721,10        3 690,37           3 498,22        3 575,47       3 544,60          3 575,69
    (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and       liI
        processed :                          II||                                                               I              \
        — in Portugal (Esc)                          0,00             0,00              0,00              0,00          0,00               0,00
        — in another Member State (Esc)          4 775,38        4 727,46           4 518,77        4 603,31       4 561,06          4 553,68
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                                                                 ANNEX II
                                              Aids to colza and rape seed 'double zero'
                                                                                                          (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                 Current        1st period 2nd period   3rd period    4th period       5th period
                                                   10               11         12            1              2               3
1 . Gross aids (ECU) :                                                                I             I
        Spain                                        2,500           2,500      2,500         2,500          2,500           2,500
    — Portugal                                       2,500           2,500      2,500         2,500          2,500           2,500
    — Other Member States                          26,806           26,603     25,525       26,101         25,907          26,304
2. Final aids :                                                                                     l
    (a) Seed Harvested and processed in :
        — Federal Republic of Germany
           (DM)                                    64,83            64,39      61,93        63,39          62,97           64,22
        — Netherlands (Fl)                         72,15            71,63      68,80        70,43          69,94           71,30
        — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                      1 285,54         1 275,65   1 223,51     1 250,62      1 241,14         1 255,47
        — France (FF)                             195,45           193,70     184,84       188,76        187,06           190,72
        — Denmark (Dkr)                           232,38           230,50     220,80       225,87        224,07           225,78
        — Ireland (£ Irl)                          21,726           21,531     20,570       21,026         20,838          21,088
        — United Kingdom (£)                       15,852           15,639     14,737       15,139         14,934          15,068
        —- Italy (Lit)                        41 474           41 087      39 088       39 863        39 482 '         39 916
        — Greece (Dr)                          2 756,65      •   2 676,94   2 451,71     2 503,00      2 444,89         2 426,1-2
    (b) Seed harvested
        processed :
                          in   Spain : and
                                                                                      1             I
        — in Spain (Pta)                          385,53           385,53     385,53       385,53        385,53           385,53
        — in another Member State (Pta)        4 106,63          4 075,90   3 883,75     3 961,00      3 930,13         3 961,22
                                                                                      i
    (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and
        processed :
        — in Portugal (Esc)                       429,31
                                                           I       429,31     429,31       429,31
                                                                                                    I    429,31           429,31
        — in another Merhber State (Esc)       5 204,69 ^        5 156,77   4 948,09     5 032,62      4 990,37         4 982,99
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                                                                            ANNEX III
                                                                    Aids to sunflower seed
                                                                                                                                    (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                           Current             1st period            2nd period         3rd period               4th period
                                                              10                    11                   12 -                  1                       2
1 . Gross aids (ECU) :
    — Spain                                                    3,440 1               3,440                 3,440                 3,440                  3,440
    — Portugal                                                 0,000                 0,000                 0,000                 0,000                  0,000
    — Other Member States                                    34,898                 35,063               34,695               35,091                   35,410
2 . Final aids :
    (a) Seed harvested and processed in (') :
        — Federal Republic of Germany
            (DM)                                              84,17­                84,58                83,77                84,82                    85,59
        — Netherlands (Fl)                                    93,81                 94,26                93,30                94,47                    95,32
        — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                                1 674,38              1 682,24              1 664,36            1 682,78                1 698,07
        — France (FF)                                       255,75                 256,87               253,56               256,04                   258,35
        — Denmark (Dkr)                                     303,14                304,53                301,16              304,61                    307,38
        — Ireland (£ Irl)                                     28,432                28,556               28,21 1              28,507                   28,766
        — United Kingdom (£)                                  21,094                21,162               20,810 :             21,059                   21,248
        — Italy (Lit)                                   54 346                 54 576              . 53 778             54 240                   54 731
        — Greece (Dr)                                   - 3 768,96              3 751,28              3 651,33            3 666,03                3 698,32
    (b) Seed harvested in Spain and
        processed :
        — in Spain (Pta)                                    530,49                 530,49               530,49               530,49                   530,49
        — in another Member State (Pta)                   4 1 67,04             4 192,78              4 109,23            4 158,19                4 207,14
    (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and
        processed :
        — in Portugal (Esc)                                     0,00                  0,00               . 0,00                  0,00'                   0,00
        — in Spain (Esc)                                  7 046,43              7 066,21              6 985,67            7 037,71                7 091,92
        — in another Member State (Esc)                   6 817,78              6 836,92              6 758,99            6 809,34                 6 861,79
3. Compensatory aids :
     — in Spain (Pta)                                     4 119,30     ,        4 143,80              4 060,26            4109,22                 4 158,17
4. Special aid :
     — in Portugal (Esc)                                  6 817,78              6 836,92              6 758,99            6 809,34                  6 861,79
                                                                          '
(') For seed harvested in the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 and processed in Spain, the amounts shown in 2 (a) to be multiplied by 1,0335380 .
                                                                            ANNEX IV
                          Exchange rate of the ECU to be used for converting final aids into the currency of the
                           processing country when the latter is a country other than the country of production
                                                                                                                                                (value of 1 ECU)
                                               Current              1st period          2nd period         3rd period        4th period             5th period
                                                  10                     11                 12                  1                   2                     3
 DM                                             2,075540               2,070510            2,065060           2,060630            2,060630             2,045630
 Fl                                             2,334860               2,331860            2,328970           2,324250            2,324250             2,313170
 Bfrs/ Lfrs                                    43,244100              43,228500           43,215500          43,152900         43,152900              43,113000
 FF                                             6,928020               6,935410            6,943100           6,951460            6,951460             6,978180
 Dkr                                            7,969010               7,984410            8,000260           8,010970            8,010970             8,057980
 £ Irl                                          0,774550               0,775619            0,776586           0,777365            0,777365        '    0,781562
 £                                              0,693897               0,695682            0,697619           0,699678            0,699678             0,705150
 Lit                                        1 499,35              1 504,57             1 510,43        , 1 516,59          1 516,59              1 533,71
 Dr                                           159,87200              162,06600           164,15200          166,02600         166,02600              171,57200
 Esc                                          164,00100              164,79600           165,64600          166,81800         166,81800              169,67100
 Pta                                          136,27700              136,82600           137,33100          137,87500         137,87500              139,56500