CELEX: 51989PC0040(02)
Language: en
Date: 1989-01-31
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) FIXING THE PRICES APPLICABLE TO CEREALS FOR THE 1989/90 MARKETING YEAR

No C 82/2                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                    3. 4. 89
    — in Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal, from 1                                                Article 2
        September to 31 May
                                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
    — in the other Member States, from 1 November to                    following its publication in the Official Journal of the
        31 May.'                                                       European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
               Done at...
                                                                                      For the Council
                                                            Proposal for a
                                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No ...
                                                                 of...
                               fixing the prices applicable to cereals for the 1989/90 marketing year
                                                             (89/C 82/02)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               Whereas in many cases surpluses can no longer be disposed
                                                                       of on normal terms either inside or outside the Com-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  munity ; whereas, in order to reduce the cost to the budget
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                       of disposing of surpluses on markets outside the Com-
thereof,                                                               munity and to encourage greater consumption within the
                                                                       Community, the restrictive price policy should continue to
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                     be applied; whereas given the new intervention arrange-
Portugal, and in particular Article 89 thereof,                        ment and further application of the stabilizing mechanism
                                                                       indicated in Article 4b(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of                this aim may be achieved by maintaining for 1989/90 the
29 October 1975 on the common organization of the                      intervention prices for common wheat, barley, rye, maize
market in cereals (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             and sorghum for the previous marketing year;
No ... (2), and in particular Article 3(5) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                       Whereas, as part of a quality policy, production of common
                                                                       wheat of higher breadmaking quality and production of rye
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,               of breadmaking quality should be supported; whereas,
                                                                       accordingly, the special premiums for common wheat of
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social                breadmaking quality and for rye of breadmaking quality
Committee,                                                             should be continued; whereas, however, the level of these
                                                                       premiums should be adjusted in line with the further
Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on modern                 reduction in the intervention prices provided for in Article
farms, is the main instrument of the common agricultural               4b(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75;
policy; whereas full advantage cannot be drawn from such
a policy unless it is integrated into a general framework
embracing a dynamic social and structural policy and the
application of the rules on competition contained in the               Whereas from the 1986/87 marketing year the Council
Treaty;                                                                began a process of aligning the intervention price of durum
                                                                       wheat on that of common wheat; whereas, given the
                                                                       present ratio between the prices of those cereals and the
(!) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.                                    imbalance recorded on the durum wheat market, it is
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                               advisable to pursue that process; whereas, accordingly, an
 ---pagebreak--- 3. 4. 89                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No C 82/3
additional reduction should be made in the intervention                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
price of durum wheat;
Whereas application of Article 68 of the Act of Accession of                                      Article 1
Spain and Portugal has meant that prices in Spain differ
from the common prices; whereas Article 70(1) of the Act                For the 1989/90 marketing year the prices applicable in the
of Accession indicates the provisions to be applied for                 cereals sector shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
aligning the Spanish prices on the common prices; whereas
the rules for this alignment give the Spanish intervention                                        Article 2
price for durum wheat indicated below; whereas in
consequence of the changes made since accession in the                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
intervention mechanisms and of application of the                       following its publication in the Official Journal of the
stabilizing mechanisms the Spanish intervention prices for              European Communities.
barley, rye and sorghum should from the 1989/90
marketing year be the same as those applicable in the rest of           It shall apply from the beginning of the 1989/90 marketing
the Community,                                                          year.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
              Done at...
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                ANNEX
                                                                                                                   (ECU/t)
              COMMON WHEAT
              Intervention price (*)                                                                                179,44
              Target price                                                                                          247,78
              RYE
              Intervention price (2)                                                                                170,47
              Common target price                                                                                   225,48
              BARLEY
              Intervention price                                                                                    170,47
              Common target price                                                                                   225,48
              MAIZE
              Intervention price                                                                                    179,44
              Common target price                                                                                   225,48
              SORGHUM
              Intervention price                                                                                    170,47
              Common target price                                                                                   225,48
              DURUM WHEAT
              Intervention price
              — Community of Ten                                                                                    261,09
              — Spain                                                                                               222,51
              Target price                                                                                          315,39
              i1) The price is increased by 3,48 ECUs/tonne for common wheat of breadmaking quality which meets the
                  specific quality requirements provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1570/77.
              (2) The price is increased by 8,70 ECUs/tonne for rye of breadmaking quality which meets the specific quality
                  requirements provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1570/77.