CELEX: 31973R3498
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3498/73 of the Commission of 21 December 1973 fixing the components to be used to calculate the differential amounts for colza and rape seed

28 . 12. 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 357/43
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 3498 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 21 December 1973
                fixing the components used to calculate the differential amounts for colza and
                                                            rape seed
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     — the spot exchange rate recorded over a given
COMMUNITIES,                                                             period for the currency of the relevant Member
                                                                         State against each of the currencies of the Member
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    States specified above ;
Economic Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/
                                                                   Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2300/73 (5), as last
                                                                    amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No
66/ EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish­
                                                                    3491 /73 (6), lays down detailed rules for the applica­
ment of a common organization of the market in oils
                                                                    tion of Regulation (EEC) No 1 569/72 ;
and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1707/73 (2);                                                       Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2957/73 (7) of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        31 October 1973, as amended by Regulation (EEC)
1 569/72 (3) of 20 July 1972 laying down special                    No 2996/73 (8), fixed a representative conversion rate
measures for colza and rape seed, as last amended by                for the Italian lira to be applied in agriculture with
Regulation (EEC) No 3477/73 (4), and in particular                  effect from 1 January 1974 ; whereas, however, the
Article 2 (2) thereof ;                                             new Article 5 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 stip­
                                                                    ulates the maintenance of the price level existing in
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1569/72             Italy for colza and rape seed on 31 December 1973
specifies that the differential amounts ' for those                 until the end of the 1973/74 marketing year ; whereas,
Member States which keep their exchange rates at any                according to the same Article, there is reason to take
gvien moment within a band of 2-25 % must be deter­                 account of this measure when fixing the differential
mined by taking into account the incidence on prices                amounts applicable in Italy ; whereas this objective
of the percentage representing the difference                       can be attained by applying to the components used
between :                                                           for calculating the differential amounts and resulting
                                                                    from the new conversion rate a percentage expressing
— the conversion rate used for the purposes of the                  the difference between the components which results
     common agricultural policy ; and                               from the rates of conversion applicable in Italy on 31
— the conversion rate resulting from the central rate ;             December 1973 and on 1 January 1974 ;
Whereas this leads to the fixing of differential                    Whereas, applying the rules and criteria set out above,
amounts which remain constant as long as the factors                the components used to calculate the differential
used to calculate them remain unchanged ;                           amounts should be fixed in accordance with the Table
                                                                    annexed to this Regulation ;
Whereas, applying the new method of calculating
differential amounts to Denmark and France, no such                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
amounts should be fixed for seeds harvested in those                are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
two States and processed in or exported from those                  ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
States ;
Whereas under Article 2 ( 1 ) (b) of the aforementioned             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation the differential amounts for Italy and for
Ireland and the United Kingdom are to be deter­
                                                                                                 Article 1
mined by taking into account the incidence on the
price of the average percentage representing the differ­
ence between :                                                      The components used to calculate the differential
                                                                    amounts provided for in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
— the ratio between the conversion used for purposes                No 1569 /72 shall be as listed in the Annex.
     of the common agricultural policy for the
     currency of the relevant Member State and the                                               Article 2
     actual par values of the currencies of each of the
     Member States which keep their exchange rates at               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
     any given moment within a band of 2-25 % ; and                  1974 .
(') OJ   No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/66 .                       (5) OJ  No L   236, 24. 8 . 1973, p. 28 .
(2) OJ   No L 175, 29 . 6. 1973 , p. 5 .                            (6) See  p. 31 of this Official Journal.
(3) OJ   No L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9 .                              (7) OJ  No L   303, 1 . 11 . 1973, p. 1 .
(4) See  p. 6 of this Official Journal .                            (*) OJ  No L   305, 1 . 11 . 1973, p. 7.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                     The President
                                                                François-Xavier ORTOLI
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                                                       ANNEX
                                                      Target price    Subsidy or refund
                                                       corrective         corrective      Differential component (coefficient
                                                   (coefficient to be (coefficient to be to be applied to the target price) (')
                                                        applied)           applied)
Colza and rape seed, processed for oil                                                         +
production in Germany or exported                     + 0·1203           — 0·1203
from that country :
— harvested in Germany
— harvested in the BLEU or in the
     Netherlands                                                                                                  0·0960
— harvested in France                                                                                             01203
— harvested in Denmark                                                                                            0·1203
— harvested in Ireland                                                                                            0·2269
— harvested in the United Kingdom                                                                                 0·2269
— harvested in Italy                                                                                              0·2138
Colza and rape seed, processed for oil                                                         +
                                                       + 0·0268          — 0·0268
production in the BLEU and in the
Netherlands or re-exported from these
countries :
— harvested in Germany                                                                      0·1062
— harvested in the BLEU or in the
     Netherlands
— harvested in France                                                                                             0·0268
— harvested in Denmark                                                                                            0·0268
 — harvested in Ireland                                                                                           0·1447
— harvested in the United Kingdom                                                                                 0·1447
— harvested in Italy                                                                                              0·1304
Colza and rape seed, processed for oil                     Nil                Nil              +
production in France or exported from
that country :
— harvested in Germany                                                                      0·1367
— harvested in the BLEU or in the
     Netherlands                                                                            0·0276
— harvested in France
— harvested in Denmark
— harvested in Ireland                                                                                            0·1212
— harvested in the United Kingdom                                                                                 0·1212
— harvested in Italy                                                                                              0·1064
Colza and rape seed, processed for oil                     Nil                Nil              +
production in Denmark or exported
from that country :
— harvested in Germany                                                                      0·1367
— harvested in the BLEU or in the
     Netherlands                                                                            0·0276
— harvested in France
— harvested in Denmark
— harvested in Ireland                                                                                            0·1212
— harvested in the United Kingdom                                                                                 0·1212
— harvested in Italy                                                                                              0·1064
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                                                               Target price    Subsidy or refund
                                                                corrective         corrective     Differential component (coefficient to
                                                            (coefficient to be (coefficient to be   be applied to the target price) (')
                                                                 applied )          applied)
Colza and rape seed, processed for oil
                                                               — 0·1380           + 0·1380 ,             +
production in Ireland and in the United
Kingdom or exported from those coun­
tries :
                                                                                                      0·2934
— harvested in Germany                                                                                0·1692
— harvested in the BLEU or in the
     Netherlands
                                                                                                      0·1380
— harvested in France
                                                                                                      0·1380
— harvested in Denmark
— harvested in Ireland
— harvested in the United Kingdom                                                                     0·0168
— harvested in Italy
Colza and rape seed, processed for oil                                             + 0·1190              +
production in Italy or exported from                           — 0·1190
that country :
— harvested in Germany                                                                                0·2720
— harvested in the BLEU or in the                                                                     0·1499
     Netherlands
— harvested in France                                                                                 0·1190
— harvested in Denmark                                                                                0·1190
— harvested in Ireland                                                                                                      0·0165
— harvested in the United Kingdom                                                                                           0·0165
— harvested in Italy
(') For seed harvested in the United Kingdom and Denmark, the accession compensatory amount shall be deducted from the target price.