CELEX: 31973D0292
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 September 1973 laying down safeguard measures applicable to cereal products of Italian origin exported outside the Community

22. 9 . 73                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 266/29
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                                              (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                      COMMISSION
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 20 September 1973
               laying down safeguard measures applicable to cereal products of Italian origin
                                                 exported outside the Community
                                                             (73/292/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas however world market prices for these
COMMUNITIES,                                                          processed products are continuing to rise ; whereas the
                                                                      same is true of prices on Community markets ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 whereas the increase is particularly marked on the
Economic Community ;                                                  Italian market where prices for the basic product are
                                                                      now 40 % above the level of the intervention price
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                           and have been since the beginning of the marketing
67/EEC ( J ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  year ;
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1 346/73 (2), and in particular Article
20 (2) thereof ;
Whereas the         Italian government requested the
Commission on       20 September 1973 to introduce safe­              Whereas the Community harvest of common wheat
guard measures       in respect of common wheat flour,                can be regarded as satisfactory ; whereas when this was
groats and meal     of Italian origin exported outside the            first established it seemed reasonable to assume that,
Community ;                                                           when the new harvest was put on market, prices for
                                                                      the basic product and processed products alike would
Whereas the Commission has already adopted a                          respond favourably ;
number of measures designed to prevent the exporta­
tion of excessive quantities of common wheat outside
the Community ; whereas one such measure was the
introduction as from 15 August of this year, by
Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2219/73 (3) of 14
August 1973 fixing the export levies on cereals, of an                Whereas this assumption proved to be mistaken in
export levy for this product ; whereas this levy, the                 the event since prices are on the contrary tending to
amount of which has been altered a number of times                    remain very high, particularly in Italy ; whereas
since then , is still in force, whereas the purpose of this           producers in that Member State are tending to hold
levy is to ensure that supplies of common wheat on                    on to their produce ; whereas this is not surprising in
                                                                      view of the uncertainty which dominates the
the Community market are not jeopardized and that
                                                                      economic and monetary situation in that country and
adequate availabilities of products, including flour,
groats and meal, processed from common wheat are                      has prompted the Italian government to take a
                                                                      number of anti-inflation measures including the
guaranteed ;
                                                                      freezing of consumer prices for food ; whereas
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67 .
                                                                      common wheat already imported into Italy from other
                                                                      Member States and third countries         has failed to
(2 ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 .
 3 ) OJ No L 227, 15 . 8 . 1973 , p . 19 .                            improve the situation ;
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Whereas information now to hand on the future trend                 11,02 A I a) and 11.02 A I b) respectively of the
of world prices suggests that prices for common wheat              Common       Customs Tariff shall           not be valid   for
and for common wheat flour, groats and meal are                    products of Italian origin. This provision shall apply
likely to increase further or at least remain at a very            to licences applied for within the meaning of Article
high level for a very long time ;                                  6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1373/70 (3), as ldsfc amended
                                                                   by Regulation (EEC) No 1796/73 (4), after 20
Whereas this prospect could incite Italian traders to              September 1973 .
export these products outside the Community, a deve­
lopment which could seriously jeopardize supplies of               2. For the purpose of applying paragraph 1 , section
these products (chiefly used for the manufacture of                 12 of licences issued in response to the applications
basic foodstuffs such as bread) on the Italian market ;            referred to in that paragraph shall contain one of the
whereas in the case of Italy, it is not enough to fix an           following endorsements :
export levy for these products since exportation could             'not valid for products of Italian origin'
still take place ; whereas it is therefore necessary to
adopt with immediate effect special measures to deal               'non applicable aux produits originaires d'ltalie'
with the situation ; whereas these measures should be              'nicht anwendbar auf Erzeugnisse mit Ursprung in
adopted within the framework of Council Regulation                 Italien'
(EEC) No 2591 /69 (J) of 18 December 1969 defining                 'non applicabile ai prodotti d origine italiana
the conditions for applying safeguard measures in the              'niet van toepassing op produkten van oorsprong uit
cereals sector ; whereas market conditions at the                  Italié
present time are such that only a complete ban on the              'gælder ikke for varer med oprindelse i Italien.'
issue of export licences can help to improve the situa­
tion ; whereas the scope of this measure should, for               3 . For the purpose of applying paragraph 1 ,
the reasons outlined above, be limited to exports                  products dispatched from Italy to another Member
outside the Community of common wheat flour,                       State shall be subject to the provisions of Regulation
groats and meal of Italian origin and whereas there is             (EEC) No 1279/71 (5) as amended by Regulation
no need at present to extend the measure to the basic              (EEC) No 2766/71 (6).
product since Italy is not a traditional exporter of
unprocessed common wheat ;                                                                      Article 2
Whereas the Community's food aid commitments                       The provisions of Article 1 shall not apply to products
mean that exports effected for that purpose must be                mobilized for food aid purposes in application of
excluded from the safeguard measures ;                             Article 22a of Regulation No 120/67/EEC.
Whereas, by its Decision of 29 August 1973 (2), the
Commission laid down safeguard measures applicable                                              Article 3
to durum wheat flour, groats and meal exported from
                                                                   The Commission Decision of 23 August 1973 laying
Italy ; whereas technical difficulties have arisen in
                                                                   down safeguard measures applicable to durum wheat
applying that Decision ; whereas these products
                                                                   flour, groats and meal exported from Italy is hereby
should therefore be made subject to the same rules as              repealed.
the products covered by the present request from the
Italian government ; whereas, in the interests of
                                                                                                Article 4
clarity, these measures should be consolidated in a
single instrument ;                                                This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                    Done at Brussels, 20 September 1973 .
                            Article 1
                                                                                                  For the Commission
1.     Export licences for flour of common wheat or                                                    The President
meslin and for groats and meal of durum wheat and
common wheat falling within subheadings 11.01 A,                                                 Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                   (} ) OJ No L  158 , 20 . 7. 1970, p. 1 .
        :                                                          (4   OJ No L  183 , 5 . 7 . 1973 , p . 1 .
(') OJ No L 324, 27 . 12 . 1969 , p. 1 .                           (*)  OJ No L  133 , 19 . 6 . 1971 , p . 32.
(2 ) OJ No L 243 , 31 . 8 . 1973 , p . 44.                         (")  OJ No L  283,  24. 12. 1971 , p . 33.