CELEX: 31984R1810
Language: en
Date: 1984-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1810/84 of 28 June 1984 on the application of a special intervention measure for common wheat of bread-making quality at the beginning of the 1984/85 marketing year

29 . 6. 84                               Official Journal of the European Communities                       No L 170/33
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1810/84
                                                        of 28 June 1984
                on the application of a special intervention measure for common wheat of
                      bread-making quality at the beginning of the 1984/85 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     the marketing year to obtain cereals which satisfy the
COMMUNITIES,                                                       required quality standards, for reasons such as parti­
                                                                   cular farming or weather conditions ; whereas, in such
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              cases, provision should be made so that the Member
Economic Community,                                                States concerned may be exempted from the obliga­
                                                                   tion to declare the security forfeit ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                   Whereas, since the quantities to be purchased must be
zation of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by            limited, a procedure must be applied to ensure that
Regulation (EEC) No 1018/84 (2), and in particular the             the offers accepted do not exceed the quantitative
first subparagraph of Article 8 (4) thereof,                       limits which have been set ;
Whereas there is some anxiety concerning the state of
                                                                   Whereas, in accordance with the guidelines laid down
the market for common wheat of bread-making
                                                                   in connection with the fixing of prices for 1984/85,
quality at the beginning of the 1984/85 marketing                  the differences between the price for common wheat
year ; whereas, consequently, in accordance with                   of the minimum quality and the single common inter­
Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75, provision                vention price should be 7% for the 1984/85 mar­
should be made for the application of special interven­
tion measures at the beginning of the marketing year               keting year ;
in question ;
                                                                   Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has
Whereas the conditions laid down in Commission                     not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
Regulation (EEC) No 1629/77 of 20 July 1977 laying                 its chairman,
down detailed rules of application for special interven­
tion measures to support the development of the
market in common wheat of bread-making quality (3),
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 644/83 (4),
will be fulfilled, for the reasons stated above, at the
beginning of the 1984/85 marketing year ; whereas
                                                                                           Article 1
these special measures will consist of the purchase of
quantities of common wheat of the minimum quality ;
                                                                    1 . The intervention agencies of all the Member
Whereas such purchases should be made in accor­                    States shall purchase, as provided for in this Regula­
dance with Articles 1 and 2 of Council Regulation                  tion and in Articles 4 (3) and 5 of Regulation (EEC)
(EEC) No 2738/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down                    No 1629/77, subject to a limit of 3 000 000 tonnes, the
general rules for intervention on the market in                    quantities of common wheat offered to them in
cereals (*) ;                                                      August, September and October of the 1984/85
                                                                   marketing year, provided that such wheat is of the
Whereas, since the quantities to be purchased are                  minimum bread-making quality defined in Regulation
limited, measures must be applied to ensure that                   (EEC) No 2062/81 (6).
bona-fide offers are made to the intervention agencies ;
whereas, to this end, provision should be made for the             The quantities purchased shall not exceed :
lodging, at the time when offers are submitted, of a
security which will be forfeit if the offer is withdrawn           — 750 000 tonnes in August 1984,
or if the offer relates to a quality lower than the                — 750 000 tonnes in September 1984,
minimum quality or if the offer does not correspond
                                                                   — 1 500 000 tonnes in October 1984,
to a quantity actually held in store by the offeror ;
                                                                   subject to the provisions of Article 3 (3).
Whereas, however, in certain regions of the Commu­
nity it may be especially difficult at the beginning of            2.    Purchases shall be made at any of the interven­
                                                                   tion centres for common wheat, in accordance with
(■) OJ  No    L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1.                         the provisions of Articles 1 and 2 of Regulation (EEC)
0   OJ  No    L 107,  19. 4.   1984, p. 1.                         No 2738/75.
0   OJ  No    L 181 , 21 . 7.  1977, p. 26.
(4) OJ  No    L 160,  18. 6.   1983, p. 42.
0 OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 49.                              («) OJ No L 201 , 22. 7. 1981 , p. 6.
 ---pagebreak--- No L 170/34                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             29. 6. 84
3. To be valid, offers made to intervention agencies           — where the offer is withdrawn after the end of the
pursuant to this Regulation must correspond to quan­                month in which it is made,
tities actually held in store.                                 — where the offer relates to common wheat of a
The intervention agencies shall make random checks                  quality less than the minimum bread-making
to verify that this condition has been satisfied.                   quality, unless the operator can replace it with
                                                                    common wheat of such quality within a time limit
4.     Offers for intervention shall be considered only if          laid down by the Member State,
they are accompanied by proof that a security of 5             — which exceed the quantities actually held in stock,
ECU per tonne has been lodged.                                      as verified pursuant to the second subparagraph of
                                                                    Article 1 (4).
                         Article 2
                                                               2. The security shall be released forthwith in respect
The price to be paid for the purchases referred to in          of quantities accepted into intervention and quantities
Article 1 (1 ) shall be the reference price fixed for the      not accepted pursuant to Article 3 (2).
 1984/85 marketing year by Council Regulation (EEC)
No 1019/84 (') less 17,62 ECU per tonne, the resulting         3. The Commission may authorize a Member State
price being subject to the monthly increases applicable        not to declare the security forfeit for failure to fulfil
to the reference price.                                        the obligation regarding minimum quality if in certain
                                                               regions of the Community, because of specific farming
                                                               and weather conditions, it is particularly difficult to
                         Article 3
                                                               obtain a cereal which satisfies the quality standards
                                                               referred to in Article 1 (1 ).
 1.    The Member States shall, not later than 12
September, 10 October and 14 November 1984, report             4.     Member States shall inform the Commission not
to the Commission the quantities offered for interven­
tion under this Regulation for the preceding month.            later than 15 December 1984 of the quantities of
                                                               common wheat which were offered pursuant to this
2.     On the basis of the information provided for in         Regulation in August, September and October but
paragraph 1 , the Commission shall forthwith :                 could not be accepted for reasons of quality.
— decide whether, in view of the monthly limits laid
     down in Article 1 , all offers submitted may be                                   Article 5
     accepted for the month in question,
— lay down, if the total quantity offered in the               Delivery of accepted quantities shall take place within
     Community exceeds the quantity laid down in               two months of the date of acceptance of the offer by
     Article 1 for the month in question, the percentage       the intervention agency. Where delivery takes place in
     by which offers made are to be reduced.                   December 1984 or later, the price payable is that set
                                                               out in Article 2 increased by four monthly increments
3.     If the quantities offered for August are less than      converted into national currency at the representative
750 000 tonnes, the difference shall be added to the
                                                               rate applicable on 31 December 1984.
allocation for September.
If the quantities offered for September are less than
the allocation for that month, plus any amounts added
                                                                                       Article 6
under the preceding subparagraph, the difference shall
be carried over to October.
                                                               Intervention agencies shall lay down such further
4.     The intervention agency shall forthwith inform          procedures and conditions for taking over wheat as are
 the operator of the quantities offered which may be           required to take account of special conditions in their
accepted, subject to compliance with any other provi­          Member State, provided that these procedures and
sions applicable.                                              conditions are compatible with the provisions of this
                                                               Regulation.
5. Acceptance of the offer by the intervention
agency shall be made definitive as soon as possible.
                                                                                        Article 7
                         Article 4
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
 1.    The security referred to in Article 1 (4) shall be       publication in the Official Journal of the European
forfeit for those quantities :                                  Communities.
(') OJ No L 107, 19. 4. 1984, p. 4.                             It shall apply from 1 August 1984.
 ---pagebreak--- 29. 6. 84                      Official Journal of the European Communities                    No L 170/35
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 28 June 1984.
                             i                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Poul DALSAGER
                                                              Member of the Commission