CELEX: 51973PC0301
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-27
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL modifying Regulation (EEC) no 1059/69 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                    COM(73 ) 301 final
                                                    Brussels . 27 February 1973
                                  Proposal for a
                          REGULATION (EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
              modifying Regulation (EEC ) no 1059/69 laying down the
              trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting
              from the processing of agricultural products
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
  COM(73 ) 301 final
 ---pagebreak---                                          MOTIVATION
          Council Regulation (EEC ) n° 1059/ 69 of 28 May 1969 laying down the
 trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing
 of agricultural products ( l ) provides that on importation into the Community
 these goods shall be subject to a charge consisting of a fixed'       component
 and a variable component .
          Article 6 of that Regulation leaves a period of 15 days for the
 Commission to determine the variable components , and for the Member States
•to taJkie the necessary measures in order that these variable components can
be applied as from the first day of the trimester for which they are
 determined .
          It has appeared repeatedly that this period was so short as to
 cause difficulties .    These difficulties became still more serious since ,
 from 1 February 1973 not only the variable components applicable on imports
 into the Community as oi%inallyC°j?S^^U^.e^rom third countries have to be
 fixed and prepared for practical application , but also the compensatory
 amounts applicable in trade between the Member States and the variable
 components to be applied by the new Member States on imports from third
 countries .   It is therefore appropriate to prolong the 15 days period in
question to 20 days .
          Consequently the purpose of this Proposal is to modify the Articles
6 ( 2 ) under ( b ) and Article 7 ( l ) of the Regulation in question.
 ( 1 ) O.J. n° L 141 of 12.6.1969 , page 1
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 ---pagebreak---                                    Proposal for a
                        ' REGUI,ATIOF (EEC j CP TOLCCTFCIL ■
               modifying Regulation (EEC ) n° 1059/69 laying down the trade
               arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the
                           processing of agricultural products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community , and ,
in particular Articles 113 , 227 and 235 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ,
Whereas Article 6 ( 2 ) under (b) of Regulation (EEC ) n° 1059/69 of the Council
of 28 May 1969 j laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods
resulting from the processing of agricultural products ( l ), as last amended
by Regulation (EEC ) n° 609/72 ( 2 ) provides that for calculating the variabiS'
component the Commission shall take into consideration the average c.i.f .
price ( excluding special c.i.f . prices ) or the free-at-frontier price used
when fixing the levies on each of the basic products in question, calculated
for a period consisting of the first fifteen days of the month preceding the
quarter for which the variable component is fixed and the two months
immediately preceding ;
Whereas Article 7 ( l)of that Regulation provides that , if one of the factors
to be used for calculating the variable component has not been determined by
the fifteenth of the month preceding the quarter for which this variable
component must be fixed , the Commission shall calculate the variable component
on the br.sis of the factor used for calculating the variable component for
the current quarter instead of the factor which is not available ;
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Whereas the period of fifteen days left by these two provisions is destined
especially to allow the Commission to fix the variable components , and to
allow the Member States to take necessary measures in order to ensure that
the variable components can be applied as from the first day of each quarter
of the calendar year ; whereas however this period has appeared to be too
short in several cases ; and whereas this difficulty has become even more
serious by the enlargement of the Community ; whereas it is therefore
appropriate to prolong the duration of this period to twenty days ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                       Article 1
       In Article 6 ( 2 ) under ( b) and in Article 7 ( l ) of Regulation (EEC )
n° 1059/69 the figure 15 is replaced by the figure 10.
                                       Article 2
       This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States .
                                            Done at Brussels ,
                                            For the Council
                                            The President