CELEX: 31975R2809
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-29
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2809/75 of the Council of 29 October 1975 on special measures for soya beans for the 1975/76 marketing year

31 . 10 . 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 280/ 3
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2809/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                          of 29 October 1975
                        on special measures for soya beans for the 1975 /76 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                           quality specified for the purpose of fixing the guide
COMMUNITIES,                                                          price ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas the producer Member States should be
Economic Community ;                                                  required to set up the control arrangements necessary
                                                                      to ensure the proper functioning of its subsidy
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/                           system ;
66/ EEC ( } ) of 22 September 1966 on the establish­
ment of a common organization of the market in oils                  Whereas under Article 2 (2) of the aforementioned
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                      Regulation the subsidy is to be granted for production
 1 707/73 (2), and in particular Article 36 thereof ;                 obtained by applying an indicative yield to the surface
                                                                      areas sown and harvested ; whereas , in order to ensure
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          the proper application of the subsidy system , the indi­
 1 900/74 (3) of 15 July 1974 laying down special                     cative yield should be determined by reference to
measures for soya beans, and in particular Article 2 (3)             yields recorded in the principal production areas ;
thereof ;
                                                                     Whereas the period of validity of the foregoing rules
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                   should be limited to that necessary to enable their
                                                                      effectiveness to be assessed,
Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
No 1900/74, criteria for determining the average
world market price, together with general rules for
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
granting the subsidy and for the control of beans harv­
ested within the Community, should be laid down ;
Whereas the said average world market price must be                                           Article 1
determined      on   the     basis  of the      most   favourable
purchasing terms available on that market ;                           1 . The average world market price for soya beans as
                                                                      referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas the figures to be taken into consideration                    1900/74 shall be determined taking into account the
should be those recorded over the marketing period                    figures recorded over a period most representative of
for Community beans in respect of offers on the                       the trade in beans originating in the Community in
world market and prices quoted on the major interna­                  respect of offers on the world market and of prices
tional exchanges ; whereas, however, offers not consid­               quoted on the major international exchanges.
ered representative of the true trend of the market
should be ignored ;                                                   2. The average world market price shall be deter­
                                                                      mined on the basis of the average of the most favour­
Whereas under Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  able offers and quotations recorded during the period
 1900/74 the average price must be recorded for a                     referred to in paragraph 1 , but excluding offers and
Community frontier crossing point ; whereas in fixing                quotations which cannot be regarded as representative
this point account should be taken of the extent to                  of the true trend of the market.
which it is representative for imports of soya beans
and the point selected should accordingly be the port
of Rotterdam ; whereas offers and quotations must be                                          Article 2
adjusted if they relate to a different frontier crossing
point ;
                                                                     The average world market price shall be determined
                                                                      for loose beans of standard quality delivered at
Whereas such adjustment should also be made in the                    Rotterdam .
event of any variation from the presentation and
(>) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1 966 , p . 3025/66 .
                                                                     The necessary adjustments shall be made where offers
(*) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973 , p . 5 .                             and quotations do not satisfy the requirements
  3 ) OJ No L 201 , 23 . 7 . 1974, p . 5 .                            referred to in the first paragraph .
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                         Article 3                             2.     The indicative yield shall be determined by refer­
                                                              ence primarily to the yields per hectare ascertained by
Producer Member States shall set up a control system           random sampling in the main production areas of the
whereby, in the case of each soya bean grower to               Community.
whom aid is granted under Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1900/74, it may be verified that the crop
area in respect of which a subsidy has been applied                                     Article 5
for corresponds to the area on which soya has actually
been sown and harvested .
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
                         Article 4                             publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                               Communities.
1.    A standard Community indicative yield for soya
beans    shall  be  determined   for beans    of standard      It shall apply from 1 November 1975 to 31 October
quality.                                                       1976 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Luxembourg, 29 October 1975.
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                             The President
                                                                            G. MARCORA