CELEX: 51989PC0546
Language: en
Date: 1989-11-07
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2727/75 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN CEREALS

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                         COM (89) 546 final
                                         Brussels,  7 November 1989
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                            Proposal for a
                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the
             common organization of the market in cereals
                    (presented by the Commission)
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                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the common organization of the market
in cereals provides in particular, under the stabilizer arrangements, for the
possibility of not reimbursing the additional co-responsibility levy where the
latter is very small. However, as legislation stands, it is compulsory to
collect even a very small additional co-responsibility levy. For the sake of
consistency, the legal basis should be introduced into the present legislation
to permit the additional co-responsibility levy not to be collected where it
involves a very small amount.
 ---pagebreak---                                    Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION
                    amending Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the
                   common organization of the market in cereals
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and
 in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),
Whereas the stabilizer arrangements provided for in Article 4b of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 2860/89 (5), provide for the application of an additional co-responsibility
levy where production in a marketing year exceeds the maximum guaranteed
quantity; whereas those arrangements can only be applied by means of
administrative measures for the collection and reimbursement of that levy;
whereas, for the sake of administrative simplification, provision should be
made for the possibility of not reimbursing the additional co-responsibility
levy where the amount to be reimbursed is very small; whereas, for the sake of
consistency, provision should also be made for the levy not to be collected
where the overrun in the maximum guaranteed quantity results in the collection
of a very small amount; whereas, moreover, such a decision must result in the
reimbursement in full of the additional co-responsibility levy collected
provisionally,
(1)  OJ No
(2)  OJ No
(3)  OJ No
(4)  OJ No L 281, 1.11.1975, p. 1.
(3)  OJ No L 274, 23.9.1989, p. 41.
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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                    Article 1
The following sentence is hereby added to the second subparagraph of Article
4b(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75:
"In accordance with the same procedure, it may be decided that in the case of
a very -light overrun in the maximum guaranteed quantity, the additional
co-responsibility levy shall be reimbursed in full."
                                    Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from the 1989/90 marketing year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States.
Done at Brussels,                                For the Council
 ---pagebreak---          F I N A N C I A L     S T A T E M E N T
                                                          : Date: 23 October 1989
 1. Budget heading: 103                      Appropriations: 1990 DB: - ECU 1 177 million
 2. Title: Amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the common organization of the
            market in cereals
 3. Legal basis: Treaty establishing the EEC
 4. Aims .of project: To introduce the possibility of reimbursing the additional
                       co-responsibility levy where the overrun is very slight.
                                            : period of       current         following
                                            : 12 months    financial year   financial year
 5.    Financial implications (ECU million)                    (1989)           (1990)'
 5.0   Expenditure
      - charged to the EC budget
         (refunds/intervention)                    56                            + 56
      - national administration
      - other
5.1   Receipts
      - own resources of the EC
         (levies/customs duties)
      - national
                                                1991            1992
5.0.1 Estimated expenditure                     p.m.             p.m.
5.1.1 Estimated receipts
5.2 Method of calculation: Additional levy:
   + (ECU 0,54/t x 114,9 million t) - ECU 6,6 million (exemption for small producers)
                                                     + ECU 55,4 million (A) x 1,107 (DR)
                                                     + ECU 61,3 million (B)
   Aid for small producers:
   ECU (110* - 63**) million x ECU 0,54/t x 1,113 (DR) = - ECU 54 million (B)
                                 ECU 5,22/t
   TOTAL: 61,3 - 5,4 = ECU 55,9 million, rounded up to ECU 56 million
6.0 Can the project be financed from appropriations entered in the relevant chapter
     of the current budget ?                                                     yesXXX
6.1 Can the project be financed by transfer between chapters of the current budget ?
                                                                                 XXXXXX
6.2 Is a supplementary budget necessary ?                                        XXXXno
6.3 Will future budget appropriations be necessary ?                             yesXXX
Observations:
  The proposal introduces the possibility of reimbursing in full the additional
  co-responsibility levy in the case of a very slight overrun. For the 1989/90
 marketing year, the additional co-responsibility levy net to be collected is
  ECU 0,54/tonne.
 The aid to small producers must be readjusted following this amemdment.
 * Total aid to small producers related to additional levy.
 ** Exemption :: Spanish, Creek and Italian snail producers.
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         I.    Quelle est La justification principale de la mesure ?
              Simplification du régime de coresponsabilité supplémentaire.
              Allégement des tâches administratives des entreprises concernées,
        II.    Caractéristiques des entreprises concernées. En particulier :
               (aî Y a-t-il un grand nombre de PME ? OUI                                 Coopératives
                                                                                         Négociants
               Cb) Note-t**on des concentrations dans des régions
                   i. eligible* aux «ides régionales des Etats membres ? NON
L.                I n é l i g i b l e s au fedcr      ?
       III. Quelles sont             les obligations impesées directement                    aux entreprises ?
              Pas d'obligation nouvelle.
        :v.   Quelles sont les obligations susceptibles d'èxre                             imposées   indirectement
              aux entreprises via les autorités locales ?
             Aucune
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      V.      Y a-t-il des mesures spéciales pour                        les P«£ ?             "'   Lesquelles ?
      VI.    Quel est l'effet            prévisible
             a) sur la compétitivité des entreprises ?                             Aucun
             b) sur L ' emploi 7             Aucun
   ' V I I . Les partenaires sociaux ont-ils été consultés ?                              NON     Quels sont  leurs
             avis ?
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