CELEX: 51989PC0660(02)
Language: en
Date: 1990-01-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) FIXING THE PRICES APPLICABLE TO CEREALS FOR THE 1990/91 MARKETING YEAR

28. 2. 90                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No C 49/3
                                                                Proposal for a
                                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No . . .
                                                                    of . . .
                                   fixing the prices applicable to cereals for the 1990/91 marketing year
                                                                 (90/C 49/02)
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  Whereas, as part of a quality policy, production of common
                                                                            wheat of superior breadmaking quality and production of rye
                                                                            of breadmaking quality should be supported; whereas,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     accordingly, the special premiums for common wheat of
  Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                          breadmaking quality and for rye of breadmaking quality
  thereof,                                                                  should be maintained; whereas, however, the level of these
                                                                            premiums should be ajusted in line with the further reduction
                                                                            in the intervention price provided for in Article 4b (3) of
  Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal,              Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75;
  and in particular Article 89 (1) thereof,
                                                                            Whereas from the 1986/87 marketing year the Council
                                                                            began a process of aligning the intervention price for durum
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                        wheat on that of common wheat; whereas, given the present
                                                                            ratio between the prices of the cereals concerned and the
                                                                            imbalance recorded on the durum wheat market, such a
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,                   policy of alignment should be continued; whereas an
                                                                            additional reduction should accordingly be made in the
                                                                            intervention price for durum wheat;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
 Committee,                                                                 Whereas application of Article 68 of the Act of Accession of
                                                                            Spain and Portugal has meant that prices in Spain differ from
                                                                            the common prices; whereas Article 70 (1) of the Act of
 Whereas Article 3 (5) of Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Accession lays down the provisions to be applied for aligning
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization                      the Spanish prices on the common prices; whereas the criteria
 of the market in cereals ( l ), as last amended by Regulation              laid down for such alignment result in the fixing of the
 (EEC) No . . . (2), provides that the target and intervention              Spanish intervention price for durum wheat at the level given
 prices are to be fixed in accordance with the procedure laid               below;
 down in Article 43 of the Treaty,
                                                                            Whereas the common prices were applied in Spain in the
                                                                            preceding marketing year for all cereals with the exception of
 Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on modern                     durum wheat; whereas the prices for durum wheat should be
 farms, is the main instrument of the common agricultural                   aligned in accordance with Article 70 (1) of the Act of
 policy; whereas full advantage cannot be drawn from such a                Accession,
 policy unless it is integrated into the general framework
 incorporating a dynamic social and structural policy and the
 application of the rules on competition contained in the
 Treaty;
                                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
 Whereas in many cases surpluses can no longer be disposed of
 on normal terms either inside or outside the Community;                                               Article 1
 whereas, in order to reduce the cost to the budget of
 disposing of surpluses on markets outside the Community                   For the 1990/91 marketing year, the prices applicable to
 and to encourage greater consumption within the                           cereals shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
 Community, the restrictive prices policy should continue to
 be applied; whereas, in view of the further application of the
stabilizing mechanism provided for in Article 4b (3) of                                                Article 2
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75, this aim may be achieved by
maintaining for 1990/91 the intervention prices for common
                                                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
wheat, barley, rye, maize and grain sorghum for the previous
                                                                           following its publication in the Official Journal of the
marketing year;
                                                                           European Communities.
(!) O J N o L 2 8 1 , 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.                                   It shall apply from the beginning of the 1990/91 marketing
(2) See page . . . of this Official Journal.                               year.
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, . . .
                                                                                                    For the Council
                                                                   ANNEX
                                             (ECU per tonne)                                               (ECU per tonne)
              COMMON WHEAT                                                   MAIZE
                                     ]
              Intervention price ( )                   174,06                Intervention price                      174,06
              Target price                             241,08                Common target price                     219,46
              RYE                                                            GRAIN SORGHUM
                                    2
              Intervention price ( )                   165,36                Intervention price                      165,36
              Common target price                     219,46                 Common target price                     219,46
              BARLEY                                                         DURUM WHEAT
              Intervention price                       165,36                Intervention price:
                                                  K                          — Community of Ten                      243,68
                                                                             — Spain                                 219,67
             Common target price                      219,46                 Target price                            295,99
             (') The price is increased by ECU 3,38 per tonne for common wheat of breadmaking quality which meets the specific
                 quality requirements laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1570/77.
             (2) The price is increased by ECU 8,44 per tonne for rye of breadmaking quality which meets the specific quality
                 requirements laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1570/77.