CELEX: 51993PC0036(10)
Language: en
Date: 1993-02-09
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) fixing the prices, aids and percentages of aid to be retained in the olive oil sector for the 1993/94 marketing year

20 . 3 . 93                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No C 80 / 15
                                                                Proposai for a
                                                COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No . . .
                                                                     of . . .
                fixing the prices, aids and percentages of aid to be retained in the olive oil sector for the 1993 / 94
                                                               marketing year
                                                                ( 93 / C 80 / 10 )
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                    Portugal differs from the common price ; whereas the
                                                                              detailed rules for the alignment of the intervention price for
                                                                              olive oil applicable in Portugal are those provided for in the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                        second indent of Article 290 ( 2 ) of the Act of Accession ;
 Economic Community , and in particular Article 43
 thereof,
                                                                              Whereas the representative market price must be fixed in
                                                                              accordance with the criteria laid down in Article 7 of
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
 Portugal , and in particular Articles 89 ( 1 ), 234 ( 2 ) and 290            Regulation No 1 36 / 66 / EEC ;
 ( 3 ) thereof,
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1 36 / 66 / EEC of                    Whereas the threshold price must be fixed in such a way
 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                           that the selling price for the imported product at the
 organization of the market in oils and fats ( J ), as last                   frontier crossing point determined in accordance with
 amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 2046 / 92 ( 2 ), and in                     Article 9 of Regulation No 1 36 / 66 / EEC is the same as the
 particular Articles 4 ( 4 ), 5 ( 1 ) and 11 ( 6 ) thereof,                   representative market price , account being taken of the
                                                                              effect of the measures referred to in Article 11 ( 6 ) of the
                                                                              said Regulation ;
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
 Having      regard   to     the    opinion    of   the   European            Whereas , if producers are to receive a fair income,
 Parliament ,                                                                 production aid must be fixed in the light of the impact
                                                                              which the comsumption aid has on part only of
                                                                              production ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
 Committee ,
                                                                              Whereas Articles 95 and 293 of the Act of Accession make
Whereas the target price for olive oil production must be                     provision for Community aid for the production of olive oil
 fixed in accordance with the criteria laid down in Articles 4
                                                                              in Spain and Portugal ; whereas , pursuant to Articles 79
 and 6 of Regulation No 1 36 / 66 / EEC ;                                     and 246 of that Act , the Community aid in Spain and
                                                                              Portugal should be aligned on the common aid at the
Whereas the intervention price must be fixed in accordance                    beginning of the marketing year; whereas the rules on that
with the criteria laid down in Article 8 of Regulation                        alignment result in the Spanish and Portuguese aid rates
No 136 / 66 / EEC ;                                                           shown below ;
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3815 / 92 of 28
December 1992 on application of the common intervention                       Whereas , in accordance with Articles 5 ( 4 ) and 20d ( 1 ) of
price for olive oil in Spain ( 3 ) provides that the common                   Regulation No 136 / 66 / EEC , the percentages - of
intervention price is to apply in Spain from 1 January                        production aid to be allocated to finance measures to
 1993 ;                                                                       improve the quality of olive oil production and to finance
                                                                              expenditure incurred in the work done by recognized
                                                                              producer organizations or associations thereof in
Whereas , as a result of the application of Article 236 of the                administering and controlling olive oil production aid ,
Act of Accession , the intervention price for olive oil in                    should be determined;
(M OJ No 172 , 30 . 9 . 1966 , p . 3025 / 66 .                                Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No
( 2) OJ No L 215 , 30 . 7 . 1992 , p . 1 .                                    3416 / 90 of 27 November 1990 on the introduction of
( 3 ) OJ No L 387 , 31 . 12 . 1992 , p . 9 .                                  Community aid for the consumption of olive oil in Spain
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and Portugal 0 ) lays down criteria for adjusting this aid to                                      Article 2
the Community level ;
                                                                        For the 1993 / 94 marketing year, the representative market
Whereas the application of those criteria in Spain would                price and the threshold price for olive oil shall be as
                                                                        follows :
entail a serious distortion of the market, given the fact that
application of the common intervention price in Spain from
1 January 1993 has led to the abolition of the 'accession'              ( a) representative market price:      ECU 192,05 / 100 kg,
compensatory amounts applicable to trade to and from
that country ; whereas , as a result , the criteria in Regulation       (b ) threshold price:                  ECU 188,63 / 100 kg.
( EEC ) No 3416 / 90 should be derogated from as regard the
amount of consumption aid applicable in Spain , and this
should be brought into line with the aid applicable in the
Community of Ten ; whereas the criteria of that Regulation                                         Article 3
should therefore be applied solely to Portugal , and whereas
the amount of consumption aid for that country for the
                                                                        For the 1993 / 94 marketing year, the production aid shall
1993 / 94 marketing year should be fixed at the level                   be as follows :
indicated in this Regulation ;
                                                                        ( a ) production aid :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 11 ( 5 ) and ( 6 ) of Regulation           — for Spain :                          ECU 66,65 / 100 kg,
No 136 / 66 / EEC , a certain percentage of the consumption
aid during each olive oil marketing year is to be used, on              — for Portugal :                       ECU 64,99 / 100 kg,
the one hand , to finance measures by the recognized trade
organizations referred to in paragraph 3 of the                         — for the Community of Ten :           ECU 89,11 / 100 kg;
abovementioned Article , and , on the other hand , to finance
measures to promote olive oil consumption in the                        ( b ) production aid for growers whose average production
Community ; whereas the said percentages for the 1993 / 94                    in less than 500 kg of olive oil per marketing year:
marketing year should be fixed ;                                              — for Spain :                    ECU 73,51 / 100 kg,
                                                                              — for Portugal :                 ECU 71,85 / 100 kg,
Whereas the situation on the olive oil market makes it
possible to continue the readjustment of consumption aid                      — for the Community of           ECU 96,88 / 100 kg.
                                                                                  Ten :
and production aid begun during the 1991 / 92 marketing
year ,
                                                                                                   Article 4
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                        1 . For the 1993 / 94 marketing year , 1,5 % of the
                                                                        production aid earmarked for olive-oil producers shall be
                                                                        allocated to the financing of specific measures to improve
                             Article 1                                  the quality of olive oil in each producer Member State .
 1 . For the 1993 / 94 marketing year, the production target            2 . For the 1993 / 94 marketing year, the percentage of the
price and the intervention price for olive oil shall be as              production aid which may be withheld pursuant to Article
follows :                                                               20d ( 1 ) of Regulation No 136 / 66 / EEC for organizations
                                                                        of olive-oil producers or associations thereof recognized
( a ) production target price: ECU 321,16 / 100 kg;                     under the said Regulation shall be 1,1 % .
( b ) intervention price :
      — for Portugal :                     ECU 194,94 / 100 kg,
      — for    the  other   Member                                                                 Article 5
          States:                          ECU 196,84 / 100 kg.
                                                                        1 . Notwithstanding Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC ) No
                                                                        3416 / 90 , the amount of consumption aid applicable in
2 . The prices fixed in paragraph 1 shall be for ordinary               Spain for the 1993 / 94 marketing year shall be the same as
virgin olive oil with a free fatty-acid content, expressed as
                                                                        that applicable in the Community of Ten .
oleic acid , of 3,3 g / 100 g .
                                                                        2 . For the 1993 / 94 marketing year , the level of
                                                                        consumption aid for olive oil applicable in Portugal shall be
(!) OJ No L 330 , 29 . 11 . 1990 , p . 6 .                              ECU 44,11 / 100 kg.
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                            Article 6                                                       Article 7
1 . For the 1993 / 94 marketing year , the percentage of           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
consumption aid referred to in Article 11 ( 5 ) of Regulation      following its publication in the Official Journal of the
No 136 / 66 / EEC shall be 2 % .                                   European Communities.
2 . For the 1993 / 94 marketing year the percentage of
consumption aid to be allocated to the measures referred to
in Article 11 ( 6 ) of Regulation No 136 / 66 / EEC shall be
0,5 % .                                                            It shall apply from 1 November 1993 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at . . .
                                                                                       For the Council