CELEX: 31974R2783
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2783/74 of the Council of 4 November 1974 on special measures for soya beans for the 1974/75 marketing year

5 . 11 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 297/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2783/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 4 November 1974
                       on special measures for soya beans for the 1974/75 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         adjusted if they relate to a different frontier crossing
COMMUNITIES,                                                        point ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas such adjustment should also be made in the
 Economic Community ;                                               event of any variation from the presentation and
                                                                    quality specified for the purpose of fixing the guide
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/                        price ;
66/ EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish­
ment of a common organization of the market in oils                 Whereas the producer Member States should be
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    required to set up the control arrangements necessary
 1707/73 (2), and in particular Article 36 thereof ;                to ensure the proper functioning of the subsidy
                                                                    system ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1 900/74 (3) of 15 July 1974 laying down special
 measures for soya beans, and in particular Article 2 (3)           Whereas under Article 2 (2) of the aforementioned
thereof ;                                                           Regulation the subsidy is to be granted for production
                                                                    obtained by applying an indicative yield to the surface
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                 areas sown and harvested ; whereas , in order to ensure
                                                                    the proper application of the subsidy system , the indi­
Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)               cative yield should be determined by reference to
 No 1900/74, criteria for determining the average                   yields recorded in the principal production areas ;
world market price, together with general rules for
granting the subsidy and for the control of beans harv­             Whereas the period of validity of the foregoing rules
ested within the Community, should be laid down ;                   should be limited to that necessary to enable their
                                                                    effectiveness to be assessed ;
Whereas the said average world market price must be
determined     on   the basis      of    the  most  favourable
                                                                    Whereas last year certain Member States decided,
purchasing terms available on that market ;                         while awaiting Community rules on the subject, to
                                                                    grant subsidies to promote the production of soya
Whereas the figures to be taken into consideration                  beans ; whereas if the Community subsidy were to be
should be those recorded over the marketing period                  fixed at a level lower than that for national subsidies
for Community beans in respect of offers on the                     the abolition of those subsidies would be prejudicial
world market and prices quoted on the major interna­                to producers who had embarked upon cultivation of
tional exchanges ; whereas, however, offers not consid­             this crop ; whereas, in order to avoid this, Member
ered representative of the true trend of the market                 States should be authorized , subject to certain condi­
should be ignored ;                                                 tions, to maintain their national subsidies for the
Whereas under Article 2(1 ) of Regulation (EEC)- No                 1974/75 marketing year,
 1900/74 the average price must be recorded for a
Community frontier crossing point ; whereas in fixing
this point account should be taken of the extent to                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
which it is representative for imports of soya beans
and the point selected should accordingly be the port
of Rotterdam ; whereas offers and quotations must be                                       Article 1
(') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/ 66 .
(2) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6. 1973 , p. 5.                               1 . The average world market price for soya beans as
(3 ) OJ No L 201 , 23 . 7 . 1974, p. 5 .                            referred to in Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No
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1900/74 - shall be determined on or before 15 January                                  Article 4
1975 .
                                                              1 . A standard Community indicative yield for soya
2. For the purpose of determining such average                beans shall be determined on or before 1 5 January
world market price, account shall be taken of the             1975 .
figures recorded over a period most representative of
the trade in beans originating in the Community in            2. The indicative yield shall be determined for soya
respect of offers on the world market and of prices           beans of a standard quality.
quoted on the major international exchanges.
                                                              3 . The indicative yield shall be determined by refer­
3 . The average world market price shall be deter­            ence primarily to the yields per hectare ascertained by
mined on the basis of the average of the most favour­         random sampling in the main production areas of the
able offers and quotations recorded during the period         Community.
referred to in paragraph 2, but excluding offers and
quotations which cannot be regarded as representative                                  Article 5
of the true trend of the market .
                                                              1.       Until 31 October 1975 and in respect of soya
                        Article 2                             beans harvested before 1 January 1975, Member States
The average world market price shall be determined            may continue to apply their respective national
for loose beans of a standard quality delivered at            production subsidy arrangements .
Rotterdam .
                                                              2.      The amount of the subsidy under such arrange­
The necessary adjustments shall be made where offers          ments may not, however, exceed the difference
and quotations do not satisfy the requirements                between the amount thereof applicable on 1
referred to in the first paragraph .                          November 1974 and that of the subsidy under Article
                                                              2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1900/74.
                        Article 3
                                                                                        Article 6
Producer Member States shall set up a control system
whereby, in the case of each soya bean grower to              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
whom aid is granted under Article 2(1 ) of Regulation         publication in the Official Journal of the European
( EEC) No 1900/74, it may be verified that the crop           Communities.
area in respect of which a subsidy has been applied
for corresponds to the area on which soya has actually        It shall apply from 1 November 1974 to 31 October
been sown and harvested .                                      1 975 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 4 November 1974 .
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                              Ch . BONNET