CELEX: 51973PC1466
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Date: 1973-09-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A Regulation (EEC) of the Council on the financing of certain measures by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                            PROPOSAL FOR A
                    Regulation ( EEC) of the Council
                                                       •
       on the financing of certain measures by the European
    Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund. Guarantee Section
            ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
  COM(73 ) 1466 final
 ---pagebreak--- Extîlanatorv Mémorandum
1 . Article 3 of Regulation (ESC ) No ! 729/70 provided for the introduction "by the
    Council of the general rules on the financing of interventions "by the Guarantee
    Section of the EAGGF . In this connection the Council , in the Annex to Regulation
    (EEC ) No 2824/72 , listed the measures - to he considered as intervention for the
    stabilization of agricultural markets . This Annex now needs to be updated in
    the light of the following factors which have arisen since it was first drawn
    up towards the end of 1972 :        ,
    ( a ) Regulation (EEC ) No 974/71 ? as amended by Regulation
          ( EEC ) WG 2746/72 has integrated "monetary" compensatory amounts in Com­
          munity financing ; article 7 of this Regulation considers the compensatory
          amounts oha.rged or granted in trade with Member States to be expenditure
          on intervention ;
    (b ) the enlargement of the Community :
  . -     involves the granting of " accession " compensatory amounts in intra-Community
          trade which are finanoed by the EAGGF under article 58 of the Accession Treaty
          Since only trade with Member States is concerned , and in view of the fact
          that other amounts granted in connection with such trade are considered
          as expenditure on intervention , it is proposed that the " accession " compensa­
          tory amounts should also be financed under the heading of intervention ;
     -    has made it necessary to take certain transitional measures based on ar­
          ticle 63 of the Accession Treaty , the . aim of which is to facilitate the
          transition from a national to a Community system . Some of these measures ,
          being operations intended to stabilize agricultrual markets , have as yet
          not been included in the Annex to Regulation (EEC ) No 2824/72 .
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     ( c ) Council Regulation (EEC ) No 239/ 73 introduced, a subsidy intended to "assist the
           marketing of sugar    produced in the French Overseas Departments . It was marie
           clear in the preamble to this Regulation that this is a Communtiy subsidy .
           It is proposed that the measures referred to above be included in the Annex
        .  to Regulation (EEC ) No 2824/72 . , •
                                                                             I         *
2 . Article 5 6 of the Act of Accession provides that specific measures may be introduced
    in connection with trade with third countries . Since , the amounts charged under these
    measures are either levies or customs duties within the meaning of the Deoision
    of 21 April 1970 ( on own resources ), it is proposed , as far as the financing of
    amounts granted under such measures is concerned , that they should come under the
    heading of export refunds .                      ,
                               1  •       :        ■                ,             .
3 . Financial Consequences '            .       .
    This proposal would noli introduce hew measures , but would simply include in the
    Annex to Regulation (EEC ) No 2824/72 those intervention measures which have been
    introduced since the end of 1972 , or else 'Specify the headings under which such
    measures are to be financed ( intervention ' or refund ). Consequently this proposal
    does not involve any new. expense or revenue .
                                                                                    À
 ---pagebreak---                              Proposal for a Regulation (SSC )
                      of the Council on the financing of certain
                      measures "by the European Agricultural Guidance
                      and Guarantee Fund . Guarantee Section .
The Council of the European Communities ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community;'.
                                                        /U )
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 729/70' of 21 April 19,70 on the financ-
                                                                       (2)
ing of the' common agricultural policy , as last modified "by the Act      concerning
the Conditions of Accession and the Adjustment to the Treaties , hereinafter re­
ferred to as "the Act ", and in particular Articles 2 ( 2 ) and 3(2 ) thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2824/72        of 28 December 1972
laying dovni general rules for the financing of interventions by the European
Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund , Guarantee Section ,
measures are listed which are to be .treated as intervention intended to stabilize
the agricultural markets , within the meaning of Article 3(l ) of Regulation (EEC )
No 729/70 ; whereas it, is necessary to include in this Annex intervention measures
introduced since then , and . the "monetary" compensatory amounts charged said granted
in trade between Member States , the financing of which as intervention was provided
for by Article 7 (2) of' Council Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 ^ of 12 May 1971 on
certain measures of con junotural policy to be taken in agriculture following the tern
porary widening of the margia of fluctuation for the currencies of certain Member
States , a3 last amended' by Regulation (EEC) No 1225/73 ^'^5
Whereas Artiolo 58 of the Act provides that the " accession" compensatory amounts
granted shall bo financed by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural
Guidance and Guarantee Fund ;
                                                                      Y*
(l )  0J No h  94 of 28 Anr.il 1970 , n . 13
(2)   0J Ho I, 73 of 27 March 1972 , p. 14
i3 )  0J No L  208 of 31 December 1972 , p. 5
(4)   0J No L  106 of 12 May 1971 , p. 1
(.5 ) 0J No L  125 of 11 Kay 1973 , p. 49
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Whereas it must be made clear undijr which heading these compensatory amounts
are to be financed ; whereas however such olarification concerns only those
amounts granted in trade "between Member States , in that , in accordance with
Articles 47(l ) and 55(l)(b ) of the Act , such amounts granted in trade with third
countries are deducted from levies or other charges on imports , or aG appropriate ,
added to the refunds payable ;
Whereas Article 5° of the Act provides that , under certain conditions , specific
measures may be introduced ; whereas amounts granted pursuant to Article 56
in trade with third countries are to be considered as refunds within the meaning
of Article 2(l ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 729/70 , and are therefore to be financed as
such ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION                   '                           ' '
                                     Article 1
1 . The following is added to        < Section I " Cereals and rice " of the Annex to
    Regulation (EEC ) - No 2824/72 :
            "8 . the production refunds provided for in Article 1 of Regulation
            (SEC ) Ko' 1009/73"
2 . The following is added to Section IV " sugar" of the Annex to Regulation
    (EEC ) No 2024/72 :
. ' (a ) to point 3 : "and" in Artiola 1 of Regulation (ESC ) No 622/73 "
    (b ) to point 4 ; "and in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC ) No 364/73 ""
    ( c ) after point 4 : •
             "5 the subsidies granted pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC )
             No 239/73 "
3 . The following Section is added to the Annex to Regulation (EEC ) No 2824/72 :
             "XV Provisions concerning various sectors
             1 . the monetary compensatory amounts charged and granted in trade
                 between Member States pursuant to Regulation (EEC ) No 974/71
             2 . The "accession" compensatory amounts granted in trad* between Member
                 States pursuant to Articles 47 and 55 of the Aot of Accession".
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                                  Article ?
 The amounts granted pursuant to Article 5° °f the Act in trade with third countries ,
 shall , for purposes of the financing of the common agricultural policy , - ho included
 among the export refunds to third countries within the meaning of Article 2(l )
 of Regulation (EBG ) No 729/70 .
                                  Article V
This Regulation shall enter into force on tne third day following' that of. its
publication in* the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply from 1 January 1973 .
This Regulation is "binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States .
Done at Brussels ,                                  For the Council
                                                    The President .