CELEX: 31973R2859
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2859/73 of the Commission of 19 October 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1897/73, fixing the denaturing premium for common wheat for the 1973/74 marketing year

20 . 10 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 293/31
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2859/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 19 October 1973
               amending Regulation (EEC) No 1897/73, fixing the denaturing premium for common
                                              wheat for the 1973/74 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     (EEC) No 1897/73 H , of 11 July 1973 fixing the
COMMUNITIES,                                                       denaturing premium for common wheat for the
                                                                   1973/74 marketing year should be diminished ;
Haivinig regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;                                          Whereas the proper functioning of Community con­
                                                                   trol no longer requires, in principle, the maintaining
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                     of the special system for the denaturing premium in
EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                    the new Member States ; whereas, however, for Ire­
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by                  land the abolition of the special system would have
Regulation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2), and in particular                 too severe an impact and that therefore it should
Article 7 (5 ) ;                                                   be retained, but to a lesser degree than formerly ;
Whereas Council Regulation No 172/67/EEC (3) of                     Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals
27 June 1967 on general rules governing the dena­                   has not delivered an Opinion within the time limit
turing of wheat and rye of bread-making quality, as                 set by its Chairman .
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2096/68 (4),
specifies that the denaturing premium must be fixed
before the beginning of, and for the duration of the               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
marketing year, but may exceptionally be amended
where there is a threat of disturbances on the Com­                                          Article 1
munity market in cereals ;
                                                                   As from 1 November 1973 the denaturing premium
Whereas the world market in common wheat has                       fixed by Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1897/
moved rapidly towards a tight situation ; whereas                   73 increased according to the provisions of the second
this situation brought about successively the limita­              paragraph of that Article, shall be amended in ac­
tion of the duration of validity of export certificates,           cordance with the table set out in the Annex .
the termination of import levies, the setting up of an
export levy ; whereas, in view of the development of                                        Article 2
such a situation, the incentive for the denaturing of
common wheat should be further reduced because                     The fallowing shall replace the text of Article 2 of
the premium is excessive in the current circum­                     Regulation (EEC) No 1897/73 :
stances, it competes in particular with barley for                     'The amount of the premium shall be increased
which the market situation gives rise to fears of                       in Ireland by 3 units of account per metric ton .'
large scale intervention :
                                                                                             Article 3
Whereas collectively these elements threaten to
disturb the market and therefore the denaturing pre­                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Novem­
mium as it is defined in Commission Regulation                      ber 1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 19 October 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67.
 (*) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973, p. 8.
 (3) OJ No 130, 26. 6. 1967, p. 2602/67.
 (4) OJ No L 308, 23 . 12. 1968, p. 12.                             (5) OJ No L 193 , 14. 7. 1973 , p. 25 .
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                                                                 ANNEX
            Amount of the denaturing premium (l) for common wheat for the period from 1 November
            1973 to 31 July 1974, including the increases resulting from the application of the provisions
                                         of Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1897/73
                                                                                                   u.a. / metric ton
            November 1973                                                                                 7.00
            December 1973                                                                                 7.22
            January 1974                                                                                  7.44
            February 1974                                                                                 7.66
            March 1974                                                                                    7.88
            April 1974                                                                                    8.10
            May 1974                                                                                      8.32
            June 1974                                                                                     8.32
            July 1974                                                                                     8.32
            (*) The total amount of the premium is increased in Ireland by 3 u . a . /metric ton .