CELEX: 31986R1468
Language: en
Date: 1986-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1468/86 of 13 May 1986 fixing the amounts of aid for fibre flax and hemp and the amounts withheld to finance measures to promote the use of flax fibre for the 1986/87 marketing year

No L 133 / 26                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  21.5.86
                                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1468/86
                                                           of 13 May 1986
                   fixing the amounts of aid for fibre flax and hemp and the amounts withheld to finance
                              measures to promote the use of flax fibre for the 1986/87 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               for flax and hemp fibres and hemp seed on the world
                                                                       market, the price for other competing natural products
                                                                       and the guide price for flaxseed ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,
                                                                       Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Por­                Regulation (EEC) No 1423 / 82 provides that, for market­
tugal, and in particular Articles 89 (2) and 234 (3)                   ing years subsequent to the 1982/ 83 marketing year, the
thereof,                                                               portion of aid for financing Community measures to
                                                                       encourage the use of fibre flax is to be fixed at the time
                                                                       when the aid is fixed for the marketing year in question ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           whereas it is to be fixed in the light of trends on the
1308 /70 of 29 June 1970 on the common organization                    market in flax, the amount of the aid for flax and the
of the market in flax and hemp ('), as last amended by                 cost of the measures to be introduced ;
Regulation (EEC) No 3768 / 85 (2), and in particular
Article 4 (3) thereof,
                                                                       Whereas Articles 79 and 246 of the Act of Accession of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           Spain and Portugal established the criteria for fixing the
1423 / 82 of 18 May 1982 concerning measures to                        amount of aid for fibre flax and hemp in these two
promote the use of flax fibre for the marketing years                  Member States ;
from 1982 / 83 to 1986/ 87 ('), and in particular the
second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) thereof,
                                                                       Whereas application of the abovementioned criteria
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (4),                 entails fixing the amounts of aid and the portions of the
                                                                       aid to be used for financing measures to promote the use
                                                                       of flax fibre at the levels set out below,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament (5),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Social Committee (6),
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308 /70
provides that the amounts of aid for flax grown mainly                                             Article 1
for fibre and for hemp grown in the Community are to
be fixed each year ;                                                   For the 1986/ 87 marketing year, the aid provided for in
                                                                       Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308 /70 shall be :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 4 (2) of that Regu­
lation, this amount shall be fixed per hectare of area
sown and harvested so as to ensure an even balance                     (a) as regards flax :
between the volume of production required in the                            — 50,73 ECU per hectare for Spain and Portugal,
Community and the amount that can be marketed ;                             — 355,09 ECU per hectare for the other Member
whereas it must be fixed, taking into account the price                         States ;
(') OJ  No  L 146, 4. 7 . 1970, p. 1 .
O   OJ  No  L 362, 31 . 12 . 1985 , p. 8 .
O   OJ  No  L 162, 12 . 6. 1982, p. 19.                                (b) as regards hemp :
(4) OJ  No  C 85 , 14 . 4. 1986, p. 27.                                     — 46,07 ECU per hectare for Spain and Portugal,
(5) Opinion delivered on 17 April 1986 (not yet published in the
    Official Journal).                                                      — 322,48 ECU per hectare for the other Member
(6) OJ No C 118 , 20. 5 . 1986, p. 1 .                                          States .
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                          Article 2                               — 28,41 ECU per hectare for the other Member States.
For the 1986 / 87 marketing year, the following portions                                    Article 3
of the aid for flax shall be used to finance the measures
to promote the use of flax fibre referred to in Article 1         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
of Regulation (EEC) No 1423 / 82 :                                following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                  European Communities.
— 4,06 ECU per hectare for Spain and Portugal,                    It shall apply from 1 August 1986.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 13 May 1986.
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                      W. F. van EEKELEN