CELEX: 31981R1813
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1813/81 of 1 July 1981 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

2. 7. 81                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 181 /33
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1813/81
                                                       of 1 July 1981
                                    fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing
COMMUNITIES,                                                     the frontier crossing point (5), as last amended by
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 1779/81 (6) fixed the said
                                                                 crossing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that
                                                                 Regulation provides that when the world market price
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            is being determined account should be taken of all
Economic Community,                                              offers on the world market known to the Commission
                                                                 and of quotations on those exchanges which are signif­
                                                                 icant for international trade ; whereas Article 2 of
                                                                 Commission Regulation No 225/67/EEC of 28 June
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC                1967 on detailed rules for determining the world
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                   market price for oil seeds (7), as last amended by Regu­
common organization of the market in oils and                    lation (EEC) No 1744/80 (8), provides that offers and
fats (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 quotations which do not relate to shipments to be
3454/80 (2), and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof,           effected within 30 days following the date on which
                                                                 the world market price is determined should be disre­
                                                                 garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     Commission believes, in view of general price move­
Committee,                                                       ments or information available to it, not to be repre­
                                                                 sentative of the real trend of the market must also be
                                                                 disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
                                                                 quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                   to seed of a quality other than that normally accep­
provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of          table on the world market must also be disregarded ;
oil seeds harvested and processed within the Commu­
nity when the target price for a species of seed is
higher than the price on the world market ; whereas
these provisions at present apply only in respect of
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
                                                                 provides that of the offers and quotations taken into
                                                                 consideration, those for delivery c and f should be
                                                                 increased by 0-2 % ; whereas offers and quotations for
Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically,          delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased, as
be equal to the difference between those two prices ;            appropriate, by loading, transport and insurance costs
                                                                  from the point of shipment or loading to the frontier
                                                                 crossing point ; whereas cif offers and quotations for
                                                                 frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in            be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and
the target price for oil seeds for the 1981 /82                   insurance costs as compared with a product delivered
marketing year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No                 cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take
 1776/81 (3) and (EEC) No 1777/81 (4) ; whereas Article           account only of the loading, transport and insurance
29 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that the                  costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas,
world market price, calculated for a Community fron­              finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif
tier crossing point, is to be determined on the basis of          Rotterdam should be increased by 0-242 ECU ;
the most favourable purchasing opportunities, quota­
tions being adjusted where necessary to take account
of quotations for competing products ;
                                                                  Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC
                                                                  provides that the world market price should be deter­
Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/                   mined for seed of the standard quality for which the
 67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­            target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ;
(>) OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                           (5) OJ No 111 , 10 . 6. 1967, p. 2196/67.
I2) OJ No L 360, 31 . 12. 1980, p. 16.                            b) OJ No L 176, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 5.
(3) OJ No L 176, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 1 .                             (7) OJ No 136, 30. 6. 1967, p. 2919/67.
b) OJ No L 176, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 3.                               (8) OJ No L 171 , 4. 7. 1980, p. 12.
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Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC               — the difference between the price of 100 kilograms
provides that offers and quotations relating to                  of colza, rape or sunflower seeds, plus processing
products presented otherwise than in bulk should be              costs, and the total of the prices of the quantities
adjusted by deducting the additional value resulting             of oil and oil cake resulting from the processing of
from that presentation ; whereas offers and quotations           the type of seed in question, and
relating to a quality other than the standard quality
for which the target price was fixed should be adjusted     — the difference between the price of 100 kilograms
on the basis of the coefficients of equivalence shown            of one or more other seeds, plus processing costs,
in the Annex to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case           and the total of the prices of the quantities of oil
of offers on the world market for qualities of colza             and oil cake resulting from the processing of these
and rape seed other than those listed in that Annex,             seeds ;
coefficients of equivalence derived from those listed
in that Annex may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regula­
tion No 225/67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when              Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for
derived coefficients are being calculated, account must     the purpose of determining that margin are defined in
be taken of the differences between prices for the qual­    Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no
ities of seed in question and prices for the qualities      adjustment should be made where the margin is
listed in that Annex, and of the characteristics of these   found to be less than 0-604 ECU ; whereas Article 6
various seeds :                                             (2) of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides that, when
                                                            the amount of the adjustment is being determined,
                                                            account should be taken of the incidence of the
                                                            margin in question on marketing operations of
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC               Community traders and on the disposal of the various
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used      types of seed on the world market ;
as a basis for determining the world market price, that
price should be determined on the basis of the value
of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting     Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2114/71 of 28
from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within         September 1971 on the subsidy for oil seeds (1), as
the Community less an amount corresponding to the           amended by Regulation (EEC) No 851 /78 (2), laid
cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ;      down rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ;
whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into           whereas, under that Regulation, where the subsidy to
consideration for the purposes of the calculation are       be granted is fixed in advance, the amount of such
fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ;            subsidy must be equal to the amount applicable on
whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­      the day on which the application for advance fixing
mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­          was lodged, adjusted by the difference between the
tion ;                                                      target price valid on that day and the target price valid
                                                            on the day on which the seeds are placed under
                                                            control at an oil mill and, where appropriate, a correc­
                                                             tive amount ; whereas Article 36 of Commission Regu­
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                lation (EEC) No 1204/72 of 7 June 1972 laying down
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used      detailed rules for the application of the subsidy system
as a basis for determining the world market price and        for oil seeds (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value     No 1202/81 (4), provides that such adjustment should
of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the         involve increasing or reducing the amount of subsidy
world market price should be determined on the basis         applicable on the day on which the application was
of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake,          lodged by the difference between the target price valid
adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices        during the month during which the seeds were placed
for competing products by applying to that value the         under control at an oil mill and the target price valid
rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No 115/             on the day on which the application was lodged ;
67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/
67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or
oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have         Whereas the conditions for the sale of Community
been offered in the largest quantities on the world          seeds and the situation of forward offers and prices on
market during the period under consideration ;               the world market make it necessary to extend the
                                                             period of validity of the AP part of the certificate until
                                                             the end of the sixth month following that during
                                                             which the application was logdged ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
 115/67/EEC, the price adopted for colza, rape and           (!) OJ No   L 222,  2. 10 . 1971 , p. 2.
                                                             (2) OJ No   L 116,  28 . 4. 1978 , p. 4.
sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount           (3) OJ No   L 133,  10 . 6. 1972, p. 1 .
not exceeding the difference between :                       (4  OJ No   L 122,  6. 5. 1981 , p . 19.
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Whereas Article 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 1204/72                a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on
provides that the corrective amount must be equal to             their effective parity,
the difference between the world market price for            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during             of these currencies recorded for a given period in
the month in which the seeds were placed under                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
control at an oil mill, those prices being determined            in the previous indent ;
in accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation
No 115/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer and no price            Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to
can be used for such determination, the method of            the offers and quotations known to the Commission
calculation provided for in Article 38 of Regulation         that the subsidy on colza, rape and sunflower seeds
(EEC) No 1204/72 should be used ; whereas the above­         should be as set out in the Annex hereto,
mentioned difference may be adjusted pursuant to
Article 39 of Regulation (EEC) No 1204/72, account
being taken of prices for soya seeds on the world            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
market ;
Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the                                      Article 1
market situation makes it necessary and in such a way
as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ;        The amount of the subsidy referred to in Article 27 of
whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it
                                                             Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be as set out in the
becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ;          Annex hereto.
Whereas, if the subsidy system is to operate normally,
subsidies should be calculated on the following basis :                               Article 2
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
    relation to each other at any given moment within        This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 July 1981 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 1 July 1981 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                           The President
                                                                          Gaston THORN
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                                                    ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 1 July 1981 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
                                                                                                             (ECU / 100 kg)
    CCT
   heading                            Description                                           Subsidy
     No
ex 12.01       Colza and rape seed                                                          20-262
ex 12.01       Sunflower seed                                                                15-807
                                                                                                             (ECU / 100 kg)
                                                                         Subsidy in the case of advance
     CCT                                                                    fixing for the month of
   heading                    Description
      No                                                   July    August     September    October   November   December
                                                           1981     1981         1981       1981        1981       1981
ex 12.01       Colza and rape seed                        17-331   17-331      17-407      17-859     17-326     17-778
ex 12.01       Sunflower seed                             15-807   15-431      17-880      17-129     17-664        —