CELEX: 51990PC0004
Language: en
Date: 1990-01-15
Title: AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2727/75 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN CEREALS

1. 2. 90                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               No C 24/19
                                                              II
                                                      (Preparatory Acts)
                                                 COMMISSION
              Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
                                  on the common organization of the market in cereals (')
                                                      COM(90) 4 final
              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to Article 149(2) of the EEC Treaty on
                                                       18 January 1990)
                                                        (90/C 24/14)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                      Article 1
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
                                                                  Article 4b of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 in hereby
thereof,
                                                                  amended as follows:
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                1. Paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
                                                                      'Where the cereal production from a marketing year
 Having regard      to  the  opinion    of   the  European            exceeds the maximum guaranteed quantity referred to
 Parliament,                                                          in paragraph 1, an additional co-responsibility levy
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                     shall be payable by producers, in proportion to the
                                                                      amount of the excess, within a limit of 3 %. It shall be
Social Committee,
                                                                      set on the basis of the intervention price valid for
Whereas Article 4b of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on                  common wheat at the beginning of the marketing
the common organization of the market in cereals (2), as              year in question.
last amended by Regulation (ECC) No 3707/89 ( J ),                    Article 4(1), (4), (6) and (7) shall apply to this
provides for the payment of the maximum additional                    additional levy.
co-responsibility levy at the beginning of the marketing              This levy shall be applied in the following way:
year and, where appropriate, for its reimbursement in                 — a flat-rate levy of 1,5 % of the intervention price
full or in part depending on the definitive harvest                       referred to above shall be applied from the
recorded;                                                                 beginning of the marketing year,
Whereas the abovementioned arrangements lead to                       — should the percentage by which the maximum
administrative complications throughout a substantial                     guaranteed quantity, determined in accordance
part of the marketing year; whereas they should                           with paragraph 4, be different from the percentage
acccordingly be replaced by arrangements which, while                     of the flat-rate levy, the flat-rate levy for the
maintaining application of the levy during the same                       following marketing year shall be increased or
marketing year, enable the abovementioned difficulties to                 reduced by the difference between the two
be avoided by deferring to the following marketing year                   percentages within a limit of 1,5 %'.
some of the consequences of the determination of the              2. In paragraph 4, 'before 1 March' is replaced by 'in
level of production of a given marketing year; whereas                February'.
that objective may be achieved by setting an additional
co-responsibility levy equal to 1,5 % of the intervention                                   Article 2
price for common wheat which, after the first marketing           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
year of application will be adjusted if necessary to take         publication in the Official Journal of the European
account of the percentage by which the production of              Communities.
the previous marketing year exceeds the maximum
guaranteed quantity; whereas however this adjustment              It shall apply with effect from the 1990/91 marketing
may not lead to the setting, for the marketing year in            year.
question, of an additional co-responsibility levy of more         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
than 3 %,                                                         directly applicable in all Member States.
(') OJ No C 260, 13. 10. 1989, p. 4.
C) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.
O OJ No L 363, 13. 12. 1989, p. 1.