CELEX: 31968R0643
Language: en
Date: 1968-05-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 643/68 of the Council of 29 May 1968 amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in cereals, in particular as regards the special measures laid down for Italy

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                               REGULATION (EEC) No 643/68 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 29 May 1968
              amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in
                     cereals, in particular as regards the special measures laid down for Italy
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                       State ; whereas the market conditions for denatured
                                                                common wheat are such that it can be substituted
                                                                for barley or maize for certain uses ; whereas there­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    fore provision should be made for measures to be
European Economic Community, and in particular                  taken to avoid discrimination between Community
Article 43 thereof;                                             producers and distortions of competition between
                                                                the different cereals in question ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Opinion of the European
Parliament ;
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas in Article 1 of Council Regulation No 120/              Regulation No 120/67/EEC shall be amended in
67/EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation              accordance with the following Articles.
of the market in cereals certain errors have occurred
in the Dutch text of the 'Description of goods' and                                       Article 2
it is necessary to correct that text; whereas pursuant
to the second subparagraph of Article 4 ( 1) of that            In the Dutch text of Article 1 ( a ) the 'Description of
Regulation, in the French, Italian and Dutch texts,             goods' under heading No 10.07 of the Common
derived intervention prices are fixed for the same              Customs Tariff shall be amended to read as follows :
standard quality as the basic intervention price, while
the German text, provides for fixing these prices for
the same standard quality as the target price ; whereas                 CCT
                                                                       heading                  Description of goods
since no basic intervention price has been fixed for                      No
maize, the French, Italian and Dutch texts should
be corrected and 'target price' substituted for 'basic
intervention price';                                                 10.07            'Boekweit, kanariezaad en gierst
                                                                                      (pluimgierst, trosgierst, sorgho      of
                                                                                      doerra , enz.); andere granen''
Whereas Article 11 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC
provided for a production refund for maize and
common wheat used for the manufacture of starches,
quellmehl and 'gritz' for the reasons explained in the                                    Article 3
tenth recital to that Regulation ; whereas since the
starch industry is not alone in using maize and                 The French, Italian and Dutch texts of the first
common wheat for the manufacture of quellmehl, the              sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 4 ( 1 )
                                                                shall be amended to read as follows :
wording of the above-mentioned provision should be
adapted in order that all the industries in the Com­
munity engaged in such manufacture from those                   ( a) French text :
cereals may benefit from the production refund ;                     'Les prix d'intervention dérivés sont fixés, pour
                                                                     la même qualité type au même stade et aux
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC                       mêmes conditions que le prix indicatif, pour les
provides that Italy may reduce the import levy on                    centres de commercialisation de la Communauté
certain feed grain ; whereas such measures have an                    autres que Duisbourg.'
effect on the level of cereal prices in that Member
                                                                (b ) Italian text:
                                                                     'Per i centri di commercializzazione della Comuita
1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2269/67.                                  diversi da Duisburg i prezzi d'intervento vengono
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     fissati, per la stessa qualità tipo, nella stessa fase               accordance with the voting procedure laid
     e alle medesime condizioni previste per il prezzo                    down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty on a
     indicativo .'                                                       proposal from the Commission, shall take
                                                                         the measures necessary to avoid discrimi­
(c) Dutch text :                                                         nation between Community producers and
     'De afgeleide interventieprijzen worden voor de                     distortions of competition in trade between
                                                                         denatured common wheat on the one hand
     andere commercialisatiecentra van de Gemeen­
     schap dan Duisburg voor dezelfde standaard­                         and the cereals mentioned in paragraphs 1
     kwaliteit, in hetzelfde stadium en onder dezelfde                   and 2, particularly barley, on the other.'
     voorwaarden als de richtprijs vastgesteld.'
                                                                                        Article 6
                          Article 4                             In Article 23 :
Article 11 ( 1 ) shall be amended to read as follows :          (a ) in the Dutch text of paragraphs 1 , 2, 3 and 4, the
                                                                     words 'en gierst' shall be substituted for the
     '1 A production refund shall be granted :                       words 'sorgho of doerra en millet';
     ( a) for maize and common wheat used in the                (b ) 'in the German text of paragraphs 1 and 2, the
          Community for the manufacture of starch or                 word 'Lieferungen' shall be substituted for the
                                                                     word 'Beziige'.
          quellmehl ;
     (b) for potato starch used in the Community;                                       Article 7
     ( c) for maize used in the maize industry for the          In Annex A, in the 'Description of goods ' under
          manufacture of maize groats and meal (gritz)          heading No ex 23.07 of the Common Customs
          used in the Community for brewing.'                   Tariff, the words 'Regulation No 359/67/EEC' shall
                                                                be substituted for the words 'Regulation No 16/64/
                          Article 5                             EEC .'
A paragraph 4a shall be inserted in Article 23 as                                       Article 8
follows :
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
    '4a Should Italy have recourse to the provisions            day following its publication in the Official Journal
          of paragraphs 1 and 2, the Council, acting in         of the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 29 May 1968 .
                                                                                           For the Council
                                                                                            The President
                                                                                              E. FAURE