CELEX: 31983R2740
Language: en
Date: 1983-10-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2740/83 of 30 September 1983 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

1 . 10 . 83                          Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 269/37
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2740/83
                                                 of 30 September 1983
                                  fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 offers on the world market known to the Commission
COMMUNITIES,                                                   and of quotations on those exchanges which are signi­
                                                               ficant for international trade ; whereas Article 2 of
                                                               Commission Regulation No 225/67/EEC of 28 June
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          1967 on detailed rules for determining the world
Economic Community,                                            market price for oil seeds Q, as last amended by Regu­
                                                               lation (EEC) No 2040/83 (8), provides that offers and
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC              quotations which do not relate to shipments to be
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                 effected within 30 4ays following the date on which
common organization of the market in oils and fats ('),        the world market price is determined should be disre­
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1413/82 (2),            garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the
and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof,                      Commission believes, in view of general price move­
                                                               ments or information available to it, not to be repre­
                                                               sentative of the real trend of the market must also be
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                   disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
Committee ,                                                    quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating to
                                                               seed of a quality other than that normally acceptable
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                 on the world market must also be disregarded ;
provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of
oil seeds harvested and processed within the Commu­
nity when the target price for a species of seed is            Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
higher than the price on the world market ; whereas            provides that of the offers and quotations taken into
these provisions at present apply only in respect of           consideration, those for delivery c and f should be
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                              increased by 0,2 % ; whereas offers and quotations for
                                                               delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased, as
                                                               appropriate, by loading, transport and insurance costs
Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically,        from the point of shipment or loading to the frontier
be equal to the difference between those two prices ;          crossing point ; whereas cif offers and quotations for
                                                               frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in          be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and
                                                               insurance costs as compared with a product delivered
the target price for oil seeds for the 1983/84 marketing       cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take
year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 1591 /83 (3)           account only of the loading, transport and insurance
and (EEC) No 1592/83 (4) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu­
lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market            costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas,
                                                               finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam
price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing            should be increased by 0,242 ECU ;
point, is to be determined on the basis of the most
favourable purchasing opportunities, quotations being
adjusted where necessary to take account of quotations
for competing products ;                                       Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC
                                                               provides that the world market price should be deter­
                                                               mined for seed of the standard quality for which the
Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/                target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ;
67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­
mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing
the frontier crossing point (*), as last amended by            Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
Regulation (EEC) No 1983/82 (6), fixed the said cros­          provides that offers and quotations relating to products
sing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that            presented otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted
Regulation provides that when the world market price           by deducting the additional value resulting from that
is being determined account should be taken of all             presentation ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
                                                               a quality other than the standard quality for which the
(') OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                        target price was fixed should be adjusted on the basis
(2) OJ No L 162, 12. 6. 1982, p. 6.                            of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex
(3) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 40.
(*) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 42.
(s) OJ No 111 , 10. 6. 1967, p. 2196/67.                       0 OJ No 136, 30 . 6. 1967, p. 2919/67.
(«) OJ No L 215, 23. 7. 1982, p. 6.                            (8 OJ No L 200, 23 . 7. 1983, p. 23 .
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to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case of offers on                and oil cake resulting from the processing of these
the world market for qualities of colza and rape seed                 seeds ;
other than those listed in that Annex, coefficients of         Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for
equivalence derived from those listed in that Annex            the purpose of determining that margin are defined in
may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 225/               Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no
67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived coef­               adjustment should be made where the margin is found
ficients are being calculated, account must be taken of        to be less than 0-604 ECU ; whereas Article 6 (2) of
the differences between prices for the qualities of seed       Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides that, when the
in question and prices for the qualities listed in that        amount of the adjustment is being determined,
Annex, and of the characteristics of these various             account should be taken of the incidence of the
seeds ;
                                                               margin in question on marketing operations of
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                  Community traders and on the disposal of the various
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used         types of seed on the world market ;
as a basis for determining the world market price, that        Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14
price should be determined on the basis of the value           June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down
of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting        rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas,
from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within            under that Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted
the Community less an amount corresponding to the              is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must
cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ;         be equal to the amount applicable on the day on
whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into              which the application for advance fixing was lodged,
consideration for the purposes of the calculation are          adjusted by the difference between the target price
fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ;               valid on that day and the target price valid on the day
whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­         on which the seeds are placed under control at an oil
mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­             mill and, where appropriate, a corrective amount ;
tion ;                                                         whereas Article 35 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                   No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying down
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used         detailed rules for the application of the subsidy system
as a basis for determining the world market price and           for oil seeds provides that such adjustment should
where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value        involve increasing or reducing the amount of subsidy
of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the            applicable on the day on which the application was
world market price should be determined on the basis            lodged by the corrective amount and the difference
of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake,            between the target prices mentioned in Article 35 of
 adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices          Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 ;
for competing products by applying to that value the            Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 extended the
rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No , 115/              subsidy system for oil seeds mentioned in Article 27 of
 67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/               Regulation No 136/66/EEC to cover colza and rape
 67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or             seed incorporated into animal feeds ;
oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have
                                                                Whereas the conditions for the sale of Community
been offered in the largest quantities on the world
                                                                seeds and the situation of forward offers and prices on
 market during the period under consideration ;
                                                                the world market make it necessary to extend the
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 5 (a) of Regula­           period of validity of the AP part of the certificate until
 tion No 1 1 5/67/EEC, when the world market price for          the end of the sixth month following that during
 colza or rape seed is determined, the price adopted is         which the application was lodged ;
 to be adjusted by an amount not exceeding the diffe­
 rence between the price of 100 kilograms of colza or           Whereas Article 37 of Regulation No 2681 /83
 rape seed plus processing costs and the total price of         provides that the corrective amount must be equal to
 the quantities of oil and oil cake given by processing         the difference between the world market price for
 those seeds ; whereas, pursuant to Article 6 ( 1 ) of the      colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price
 same Regulation, the price adopted for colza, rape and         for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during
 sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount             the month in which the seeds were placed under
 not exceeding the difference between :                         control at an oil mill, those prices being determined in
                                                                accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation No
 — the difference between the price of 100 kilograms             1 1 5/67/EEC ; whereas, however, in respect of colza
     of colza, rape or sunflower seeds, plus processing         and rape seed, the price determined pursuant to
     costs, and the total of the prices of the quantities of    Article 37 (2) (a) is to be adjusted in accordance with
     oil and oil cake resulting from the processing of          Article 5 (a) of Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas,
     the type of seed in question, and                           if no offer and no price can be used for such determi­
 — the difference between the price of 100 kilograms             nation, the method of calculation provided for in
     of one or more other seeds, plus processing costs,
     and the total of the prices of the quantities of oil       (') OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44.
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Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 should be         Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to
used ; whereas the abovementioned difference may be          the offers and quotations known to the Commission
adjusted in accordance with Article 38 of Regulation         that the subsidy on colza, rape and sunflower seeds
(EEC) No 2681 /83, account being taken of the prices         should be as set out in the Annex hereto,
of the main competing cereals ;
Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the
market situation makes it necessary and in such a way        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ;
whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it
becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ;                                Article 1
Whereas, if the subsidy system is to operate normally,
subsidies should be calculated on the following basis :      The amount of the subsidy referred to in Article 27 of
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in          Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be as set out in the
                                                             Annex hereto.
    relation to each other at any given moment within
    a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on the
    central rate,
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of                            Article 2
    these currencies recorded for a given period in
    relation to the Community currencies referred to         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October
    in the previous indent ;                                 1983 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 September 1983 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                    ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 30 September 1983 fixing the amount of the subsidy
                                                  on oil seeds
                                                                                                             (ECU / 100 kg)
     CCT
   heading                            Description                                            Subsidy
      No
ex 12.01      Colza and rape seed                                                              6,804
ex 12.01      Sunflower seed                                                                  13,139
                                                                                                             (ECU/ 100 kg)
                                                                         Subsidy in the case of advance
    CCT                                                                     fixing for the month of
   heading                   Description
      No                                                  October November    December     January   February      March
                                                           1983     1983         1983        1984       1984        1984
ex 12.01      Colza and rape seed                          6,804    7,242        7,542       7,437      6,556       6,838
ex 12.01      Sunflower seed                              13,139   14,071 ,    14,377      13,984     14,153         —