CELEX: 51977PC0554
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-09
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2114/71 on the subsidy for oil seeds (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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Vol. 1977/0181
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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                     COM(77)554 final.
                                                     Brussels , 9 November 1977
                                Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
            amending Regulation (EEC ) NO 2114/71 ON "the subsidy
                                for oil seeds
                ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission )
COM ( 77 ) 554 final .
 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
At the meeting of the Council of Ministers on 25 and. 26 April 1977 "the
Council and the Commission expressed their intention , as regards colza
and rape seeds harvested as from the 1978/79 marketing year , to limit
the granting of the subsidy to seeds having a low erucic acid content
and to the quantities of other seeds used "by the chemical industry.
The purpose of this draft is to provide for such a limitation of the
subsidy as well as to ensure that , in regard to colza and rape seeds
having a high erucio acid content the subsidy is paid only when these
seeds have been put to a non-food use .
 ---pagebreak---                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
amending Regulation (EEC ) NO 2114/71 on the subsidy for oil seeds
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66 /EEC of 22 September 1 966 , on
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the establishment of a common organization of the market in oils and fats            '
as last amended "by Regulation (EEC ) No 1707/73     and in particular Article
27 ( 3) thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the Scientific Committee for Pood recommended in its Opinion on
colza oil that , where this oil is used in food , preference should be given
to varieties of oil having a low erucic acid content ;
Whereas most Community producers have already begun using for their crops
seed of low erucic acid content ; whereas , to encourage them to pursue this
conversion measure , Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2114/71 of 28 September 1971
on the subsidy for oil seeds ^ , should be amended to restrict the subsidy ,
in the case of production intended for use in food , to seed the erucic
acid content of which does not exceed a certain limit ;
Whereas the subsidy should only be granted for seed with a high erucic acid
content when it is intended for non-food uses ,
                                         ' ■ '         '             J
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
1 ) OJ No 172 , 30.9.1966 , p. 3025/66
2 ) OJ No L 175 , 29.6.1973 , p. 5
3 ) OJ No L 222 , 2.10.1971 , P. 2.                                   • • • /• • •
 ---pagebreak---                                Article 1                                       ï
The following paragraph is hereby added to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC )
No 21 14/71 :
" In the case of colza and rape seeds the oil of which is intended for use
  in food , the subsidy shall "be granted only for seeds the oil of which has
  an erucic acid content , calculated on the "basis of its total content in
  fatty acid in the oily phase , not exceeding a percentage to "be determined
  in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of Regulation
  Ho 136/66 /EEC .
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                            Article 2                                          j
Article 10 of Regulation (EEC ) No 21 1 4/7 1 is hereby amended to read as
follows :
"Article 10
  1.  Entitlement to the subsidy shall "be acquired
      (a) in the case of colza and rape seeds the oil of which is intended
            for use in food and in the case of sunflower seeds , when the said
            seeds are processed for the production of oil ;
      (b ) in the case of colza and rape seeds the oil of which is intended
            for non-food uses , when the oil for these seeds has "been put to
            the intended use .
  2.  The subsidy shall "be paid to the holder of the certificate referred to
      in Article 4 in "the Member State in which the seeds are placed under
      control
      – in the case of the seeds referred to in paragraph 1 (a), when proof
         of processing is furnished;
      – in the case of the seeds referred to in paragraph 1 (b ) , when proof
         is furnished that the oil has been put to the intended use *
      However , the subsidy may be paid in advance as soon as the seeds have
      been placed under control , on condition that a guarantee for their
      processing is lodged".
                            Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply with effect from 1 July 1978 .
ThiB Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and direotly applicable in
all Member States .
_Done at, _Brussels
                 , ,                                For the Council