CELEX: 31993R3645
Language: en
Date: 1993-12-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3645/93 of 30 December 1993 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

No L 333/22                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                31 . 12. 93
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3645/93
                                                    of 30 December 1993
                                        fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 of
                                                                   19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried fodder (9), as last
                                                                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1110/89 (10), the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             average world market price for the products described in
Community,                                                        the first and third indents of Article 1 (b) of Regulation
                                                                  (EEC) , No 1117/78 is to be determined on the basis of the
                                                                  most favourable actual purchase possibilities excepting
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78              those which cannot be considered representative of the
of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the                  real market trend ; whereas offers and quotations recorded
market in dried fodder ('), as last amended by Regulation         during the first 25 days of the month in question for
(EEC) No 2275/89 (2), and in particular Article 5 (3)             quantities that can be delivered during the following
thereof,                                                          calendar month are to be used ; whereas the average world
                                                                  market price thus determined is used to fix the aid rate
                                                                  applicable on the following month ;
Whereas, under Article 5 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
1117/78, when the guide price is higher than the average
world market price, aid is granted for dried fodder as
described under Article 1 (b) and (c) of that Regulation          Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in the
and obtained from fodder plants harvested in the                  case of offers and quotations not of the type referred to
Community ; whereas that aid takes account of a                   above ; whereas these adjustments were defined in Article
percentage of the difference between these two prices ;           3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30
                                                                  June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application
                                                                  of the system of aid for dried fodder ("), as last amended
Whereas the guide price in the dried fodder sector was            by Regulation (EEC) No 1069/93 (12) ;
fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 288/93 (3) ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 (4),               Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1663/93 (*), lays          (EEC) No 1417/78, when no offer or quotation can be
down the list of prices and amounts fixed in ecus to be           used to determine the average world market price, that
amended as a result of the monetary alignments and                price is determined on the basis of the sum of the value
which are reduced from the beginning of the 1993/94               of competing products ; whereas those products are
marketing year by a factor of fixed by Commission Regu­           defined in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1 528/78 ;
lation (EEC) No 537/93 (6), as amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1331 /93 f), as part of the automatic disman­
tling system of the negative monetary gaps ; whereas this
factor must be taken into account when calculating the            Whereas, pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No
aid from the beginning of the aforementioned marketing             1417/78, when forward prices differ from that applying in
year ;                                                            the month when the application is lodged, the aid rate is
                                                                  adjusted by a correcting amount calculated from the trend
                                                                  of forward prices ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2065/92 (8), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1288/93, sets the
percentage referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)
No 1117/78 for the 1993/94 marketing year at 70% ;                Whereas, where the average world market price is deter­
                                                                   mined in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 1417/78, the corrective amount must be equal to the
Whereas the average world market price is determined for          difference between the average world market price and
a bulk pelleted product, delivered to Rotterdam, of the            the average forward world market price determined by
standard quality for which the guide price has been fixed ;        applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regula­
                                                                   tion (EEC) No 1528/78 and valid for delivery during a
(') OJ No L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1 .                               month other than that in which the aid is introduced,
(2) OJ No L 218, 28 . 7. 1989, p. 1 .                              adjusted by the percentage fixed under Article 5 (2) of
(3) OJ  No L 132, 29 . 5. 1993, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 29.
O   OJ  No L 158, 30. 6. 1993, p. 18.                             0 OJ No L     171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 1 .
(6) OJ  No L 57, 10. 3. 1993, p. 18 .                             (,0) OJ No L   118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 1 .
O   OJ  No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 114.                            (") OJ No L    179, 1 . 7. 1978, p. 10 .
(8) OJ  No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 48 .                            O2) OJ No L    108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 114.
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Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 ; whereas where the average          Commission has recorded, the rate of the additional aid
forward world market price for one or more months                for dried fodder must be fixed as indicated in the table
cannot be determined by applying the criteria laid down          annexed to this Regulation,
in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78, the
corrective amount must be fixed for the month or months
in question at a level such that the aid is equal to zero ;
Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 ('), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (2), are used to
convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural                               Article 1
conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­         The rate of the aid referred to in Article 5 (3) of Regula­
tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­           tion (EEC) No 1117/78 is fixed in the Annex to this
lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (3) ;                                    Regulation.
Whereas the rate of the additional aid must be fixed once
per month so as to ensure application of the aid from the
first day of the month following the date of its fixing ;                                Article 2
Whereas, as the result of the applications of all these
provisions to the offers and quotations which the                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1994.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 30 December 1993.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                             Rene STEICHEN
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(3) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
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                                                         ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1993 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
          Aid applicable from 1 January 1994 to dried fodder :
                                                                                                    (ECU/tonne)
                                             Fodder dehydrated by artificial heat
                                                           drying                 Fodder otherwise dried
                                                    Protein concentrates
          January 1994                                     63,317                        38,627
          Aid in case of advance fixing for the month of :
                                                                                                    (ECU/tonne)
          February 1994                                    63,023                        38,333
          March 1994                                       63,023                        38,333