CELEX: 31972R1407
Language: en
Date: 1972-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1407/72 of the Council of 27 June 1972 fixing for the 1972/73 marketing year the monthly price increases for cereals and wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

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4.7.72                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 150/7
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1407/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 27 June 1972
              fixing, for the 1972/73 marketing year, the monthly price increases for cereals and
                                          wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas, since the selling period for barley and for
                                                               maize is shorter than the selling period for cereals of
                                                               breadmaking quality, a scale of price variations
                                                               should be fixed, beginning on 1 October and spread
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   over a period of eight months ; whereas account
European Economic Community;                                   should also be taken of the special uses of rye in
                                                               certain regions of the Community and consequently a
                                                               scale of price variations should be fixed for that
Having regard to Council Regulation No
120/67/EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common
                                                               cereal beginning on 1 September and spread over a
                                                               period of nine months ;
organization of the market in cereals, as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 796/72,2 and in particular
Article 6 (2) thereof;                                         Whereas the monthly increases in the threshold
                                                               prices for other feedgrain must be fixed at the same
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                               level and for the same period as for barley and maize
                                                               in order to maintain for the whole of the marketing
                                                               year the established ratio between the threshold
Whereas, when the number and the amount of the                 prices for the various types of feedgrain;
monthly price increases and the first month during
which these are to apply are fixed, both the storage
costs and interest charges for storing cereals in the
                                                               Whereas, since the marketing of maize begins later, it
Community and the need to ensure that the disposal             is necessary to depart from the system applicable to
                                                               barley and to set 1 November as the date for the
of stocks of cereals conforms to market requirements
                                                               commencement of the monthly increases in the
and the necessary ratio between the market prices for
                                                               intervention price for this cereal, and to fix the
the various classes of feedgrain should be taken into
                                                               amount of these increases at a level higher than that
account ;
                                                               for barley, in order not to alter the present ratio
                                                               between the intervention prices for barley and for
Whereas to this end it should be laid down that the            maize;
monthly increases for common and durum wheat
should commence on 1 September and for common
wheat the total of these should be fixed at 10-70 units
of account per metric ton ; whereas, in view of the            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : .
higher financing costs for durum wheat, the amount
of the monthly increases for this cereal should be
fixed at a level higher than that for common wheat;                                    Article 1
                                                               For the 1972/73 marketing year the monthly
                                                               increases to be applied to the target prices, threshold
                                                               prices and intervention prices for the products listed
1 OJ No L 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2269/67.                          in Article 1 (a), (b ) and (c) of Regulation No
2 OJ No L 94, 21.4.1972, p . 7.                                120/67/EEC are fixed by this Regulation.
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                                               Article 2
    The monthly increases to be applied to the target price and the threshold price for
    common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley and maize, operative for the first month of
    the marketing year, shall be as follows :
                                                                                     (u.a./lOOO kg)
                              Common wheat  Durum wheat      Rye        Barley         Maize
    August                         —             —           —            —              —
    September                      1-07          1-13       0-96          —              —
    October                        2-14          2-26       1-92        0-85            0-85
    November                       3-21          3-39       2-88         1-70           1-70
    December                       4-28          4-52       3-84        2 -55          2-55
    January                        5-35          5-65       4-80        3-40            3-40
    February                       6-42          6-78       5-76        4-25           4-25
    March                          7-49          7-91       6-72        5-10           5-10
    April                          8-56          9-04       7-68        5-95           5-95
    May                            9-63        10-17        8-64        6-80            6-80
    June                         10-70         11-30        8-64        6-80            6-80
    July                         10-70         11-30        8-64        6-80            6-80
                                              Article 3
    The monthly increases to be applied to the intervention price for common wheat,
    durum wheat, rye, barley and maize, operative for the first month of the marketing
    year, shall be as follows :
                                                                                    (u.a . /1000 kg)
                             Common wheat   Durum wheat      Rye        Barley         Maize
    August                         —             —           —            —              —
    September                     1-07          1-13       0-96           —              —
    October                       2-14          2-2 6       1-92        0-85             —
    November                      3-21          3-39        2-88        1-70            1-04
    December                      4-28          4-52        3-84        2-55            1-04
    January                       5-35          5-65        4-80        3-40           2-08
    February                      6-42          6-78        5-76        4-25           3-12
    March                         7-69          7-91        6- 72       5-10           4-16
    April                         8-56          9-04        7-68        5-95           5-20
    May                           9-63        10-17         8-64        6-80           6-24
    June                           —             —           —            —            6-24
    July                           —             —           —            —            6-24
                                              Article 4
    1 . The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for oats, buckwheat,
    millet, canary seed and sorghum, operative for the first month of the marketing year,
    shall be the same as the monthly increases applicable to the threshold price for barley.
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2. The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for meslin, operative
for the first month of the marketing year, shall be the same as the monthly increases
applicable to the threshold price for common wheat.
                                          Article 5
The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for wheat, meslin on rye
flour and to the threshold price for groats and meal of common or of durum wheat,
operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows :
                                                                                   (tt.aJlOOO kg)
                                                              Groats and         Groats and
                             Wheat and
                             mesiin flour      Rye flour     • meal of             meal of
                                                            common wheat        durum wheat
August                            —              —                —                  —
September                        1-50            1-34             1-50               1-78
October                          3-00            2-68            3-00                3-56
November                         4-50            4-02            4-50                5-34
December                         6-00            5-36            6-00                7-12
January                          7-50            6-70            7-50                8-90
February                         9-00            8-04            9-00              10-68
March                          10-50             9-38           10-50              12-46
April                          12-00            10-72           12-00              14-24
May                            13-50            12-06           13-50              16-02
June                           15-00            13-40           15-00              17-80
July                           15-00            13-40           15-00              17-80
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Luxembourg, 27 June 1972.
                                                                        For the Council
                                                                         The President
                                                                          G. THORN