CELEX: 51973PC1879
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Date: 1973-11-09
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL fixing the guide prices for the fishery products listed in Annex I (A) and (C) of Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 for the fishing year 1974 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                       COM(73)1879 Final
                                                       Brussels , 9 November 1973
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                                   PROPOSAL FOR A
            fixing the guide prices for the fishery products listed in
              Annex I ( A) and ( c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 for
                               the fishing year 1974
                  ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
  COK(73 ) 1879 Final
 ---pagebreak---                                                            VI/2598/73-E
                             EXPLANATORY KEMOIEAJTDOM
             Under Regulation (EEC ) Ho 2142/70 on the common organization of
the market in fishery products , a guide price is to be fixed for each of the
products listed in Annex I A and C to the Regulation .    It is to be fixed for
a product with given commercial characteristics and based on the average of
prices recorded on representative wholesale markets or in representative
ports during the three fishing years immediately preceding the fixing of the
price for a significant proportion of Community output .
             Since 1971 "these guide prices have been fixed by a method which
has been found acceptable to all of the Member States .    The method consists
of comparing average weighted prices at representative ports for two periods :
the first period is the three years preceding the fixing of the new guide
prices which , in the absence of up-to-date statistics , really means the last
two and a half years ( e.g. 1971-72-73 up to July ); the second is the three
years preceding the fixing of the guide prices for the current year ( e.g.
I97O-7I-72 ) .  The proposed prices for 1974 were arrived at on this basis .
             However , as this comparison gives results only in mathematical
terms , it is only a starting point for elaborating price proposals . If the
price is to fulfil its economic function it must not take account only of
the past situation revealed by these mathematical results .     Changes have
therefore been made .
             Since it is difficult for guide prices to " guide " production in
a market where all species are in short supply , they have been calculated
above all by reference to their effect in determining withdrawal prices .
 ---pagebreak---              These proposals make a distinction in practice between products
( such as herrings , mackerel , sardines and anchovies ) which are generally used
by the processing industiy , and products ( such as cod , plaice and haddock )
which are generally for human consumption .
             For the former products a cautious policy is proposed, in order
to ensure as far as possible that Community processing industries can obtain
supplies of raw materials on terms enabling them to compete with industries in
non-member States .
             Price increases , sometimes substantial , , are proposed for products
for direct human consumption .
             Nevertheless these increases are not inflationary since market
prices are higher than the withdrawal prioes derived from the guide prices .
             Finally , it should be noted that there is a proposal to abandon
the special guide price for plaice in Ireland and the compensatory amounts .
The increase in the Community guide price and the obligation to align the
price in Ireland make it possible to make the price in that Member State the
same as the Community price .
             The object of this Regulation is to fix the guide prices for the
1974 fishing year pursuant to Regulation (EEC ) llo 2142/70.
 ---pagebreak--- Financial effects
1.      Financially the effects of fixing guide prices are felt primarily when
products are withdrawn from the market thus giving entitlement to financial
compensation .
               In present circumstances it can be expected that the quantities
withdrawn from the market in the Community as originally constituted will chan­
ge little and will certainly not increase .    Consequently any change in expen­
diture will generally result only from the change in the price for each pro­
duct , From figures at present available expenditure for 1973 is estimated
at some 700 000 u.a .  For the 1974 fishing year it is estimated that the new
withdrawal prices , derived from the guide , prices , will involve expenditure ,
in the form of financial compensation as provided for in Article 10 of Re­
gulation (EEC ) NO 2142/70 , of some 900 000 u.a., although the quasi-mathe-
matical mode of calculating financial compensations means that they will
vary in the same way as the guide prices .
               In addition to the increase of 200 000 u.a . over the 1973 figure ,
amounts will have to be paid to the new Member States .     In these States , where
there is only one recognized producers' association at the moment , it can be
expected that others will be set up in 1974» which also , when the Community
withdrawal price system is applied , will qualify for financial compensation .
The additional amo nt payable to such associations to stabilize their markets
is estimated at approximately 500 000 u.a .
               In view of the method by which they are calculated , export refunds
are unlikely to be affected to any large extent by the price changes .
2.     As regards implementation from the financial point of view , it should
be remembered that until November 1973 expenditure , both actual and forecast ,
comes to approx. 35$ of available funds for interventions and approx. 70$
for refunds .  The relatively low percentage for intervention is largely the
result of the fact that market prices are still high .
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              The proposed appropriations for 1974 amount to one million u.a.
for refunds and two million for all measures in this field .   Bearing in mind
that the amount of expenditure incurred in the new Member States in 1974
depends to a large extent on whether new producers' associations are set up
and that it is difficult to forecast quantities in this sector , the above-
mentioned financial effects of the proposed regulation are not such as to
necessitate changes, in the 1974 "budget nor in the figures in the multiannual
forecasts .
              It should be noted that the 1974 fishing year runs from
1 January to 31 December 1974«    The financial effects of this proposal will
therefore be felt entirely in the 1974 financial year (Budget of the Euro- .
pean Communities , Chapter 71') •
 ---pagebreak---         . '•              ' ? .?   PROPOSAÍ. OP A     -    .*
                      . ÊBGUkATKST (EEC) ,OP- ®B-00ULÎGIL
       fixing the guide prices for The fishery products listed- in
      Annex I (A ) and (c ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2142/70 for the
                               fishing year 1974
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community?
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2142/70^" of 20 Ootober 1970 on
the common organisation of the market in fishery produots , as last amended
                                 Λ
by regulation (EEC ) No 220/73 » and in particular Article 8 (4 ) of that Re­
gulation .
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas Article 8 (l ) ®f Regulation (ESC ) No 2142/70 provides that a guide
price shall be fixed each year for each «f the products listed in Annex I (A )
and (C ) to that Regulation at a level which will help to stabilise market
prices without leading to the formation of structural surpluses within the
Community?
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2709/72 of 19 December 1972"\ amended by
Regulation (EEC ) No 2825/72^, fixed guide prices for the fishery products
listed in Annei I (l ) and (C ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 2142/70 for the fishing
year 1973 ?
Whereas the application of the criteria aforesaid defined in Article 8 ( l )
of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2142/70 involves an increase in prices by comparison
with those valid for the current fishing year 5 whereas in the absence of cer­
tain information concerning price trends for each fishery product with given
commercial characteristics consideration should be given , in the case of most
products , to the relationship between the average weighted market prices
which were taken into account when the guide prices were fixed for the previous
fishing year for these products , and the average weighted market prices now
current .
                                                            • • •/ » • •
1 OJ No L 236 , 27.10.1970 , p. 5 .
2 OJ No L 27 r 1.2.1973» P. 1 .
J OJ No L 291, 28.12.1972 , p. 7 .
4 OJ No L 298 , 31.12.1972 , p. 15 .
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas for Ireland a higher gaide price had "been fixed than the price
operative in the ether Member States "by Regulatien (EEC ) Ne 2825/72 ; whereas
the increase of the Community guide price and the obligation of alignment of
the price operative in the new Member State make it possible to establish
the latter price at the Community level .
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION !
 ---pagebreak---                                  Art ici 2 1
The guide prices applicable until 31 December 1974 for the products listed
in Annex I (A ) and ( c ) cf Regulation (EEC ) NO 2142/70~and the products- to
which they relate are fixed in the Annex hereto .
                                 Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force en 1 January 1974 *
This Regulation shall "be binding in its entirety said directly applicable in
all Ksiaber States .
Done at Brussels .
                                             For the Council
                                              The President
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                                                 Products
                                                                                        Guide
         Species        Freshness j           Size ,               Présentation         price
                      [category        |                                             ( in u.a./t )
                                   A    !                                                  196
 1 . Herrings         |
                                        I      1 i whole             fish
 2 . Sardines ( du-
     pus pilchardus
     'Jalbaum
      *  v    __
                 ) :   ii
      ( a) Atlantic              Extra         2     ! whole fish                          399
                                                     î
      (b ) Mediterra­
                                                                                           234
           nean         i        Extra
                                               2     I whole         fish
 3 . Redfish ( Sebas­                                I                                     370
      tes marinus )                A           2     ii whole        fish
 4 . Cod                           B
                                  cr           2 j! gutted fish with head
                                                         ι                                 392
                                   A
                                               3      jI gutted fish with head
                                                      i
 5 . Coalfish             |I       B
                                  or
                                               2
                                                      Ij gutted fish with head
                                                       !
                                                                                            217
                           I       A           3       ;| gutted fish with head
                                         II
 4 . Haddock                       A     |     2               whole fish
                                  or     |
                                                                                            288
                                   A     i     3               gutted fish with head
                            i
                                                                                            329
 7 . Whiting                i      A           2           j gutted fish with head
 8 . Mackerel                    Extra         2           ( whole fish m original
                                                           ( boxes                          200
                             i
                                  or
                                   a           2           ! whole fish
                             I
 9 . Anchovies                   Extra         2               whole fish                   383
                                                            \
10 . Plaice                                    3            îgutted fish with head          345
                                           I                )
11 . Shrimps of the
      genus ( Crangon
      sp.p .)                 !.
                               i
                                           !
                                           î i
                                            *
                                                            i
                                                            t
                                                             1 simply boiled m water
                                                             !
                                                                                            885
   The freshness categories , sizes and presentation are defined purauant to
   Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2142/70 *