CELEX: 31975R2733
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-29
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2733/75 of the Council of 29 October 1975 laying down rules for deriving intervention prices for common wheat and for determining certain marketing centres for cereals

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                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 2733/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 29 October 1975
                     laying down rules for deriving intervention prices for common wheat and for
                                     determining certain marketing centres for cereals
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        and, moreover, where inland waterway or sea
                                                                 freight charges are not based on a tariff, the lowest
                                                                 freight charges recorded over a reference period
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     should be taken into account;
European Economic Community;
                                                                 Whereas intervention prices for the marketing centres
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/'              to be determined by the Commission must not lead
75 (*) of 29 October 1975 on the common                          to disturbances in the normal pattern of trade;
organization of the market in cereals, and in
particular Article 4 (5 ) thereof;
                                                                 Whereas, to ensure the proper working of the inter­
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              vention system, the selection of marketing centres
                                                                 other than the principal centres should be based on a
                                                                 geographical situation and storage facilities which
Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/             allow the assembly and disposal of large quantities
75 provides that derived intervention prices for                 of cereals,
common wheat should be fixed at a level which
will allow the free movement of cereals within the
Community in accordance with the needs of the
market; whereas to this end intervention prices
should be fixed in such a way that the differences               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
between them correspond to the disparities in prices
to be expected in a normal harvest under natural
conditions of price formation on the market;
                                                                                        Article 1
Whereas the level of market prices is not determined             For the purpose of fixing derived intervention prices
solely by the cost of transport to Duisburg, the                 for common wheat, market prices shall be considered
marketing centre in the area of greatest deficit in the          as being established under natural conditions of price
north-west of the Community; whereas account                     formation as follows :
should also be taken of the geographical situation of
the surplus and deficit areas of the Community, the
                                                                 — in deficit areas whose supplies depend to a certain
requirements of other consumer areas, imports from
                                                                     extent on imports, on the basis of the price at
third countries and export possibilities ;
                                                                     wrhich imported common wheat is offered in those
                                                                     areas ,
Whereas derived intervention prices for common
wheat in the different marketing centres should be               — in production areas whose surpluses contribute to
fixed at such a level that common wheat coming                       a certain extent to the supply of the above­
from other areas cannot be offered at a price below                  mentioned areas, on the basis of the above­
that level ;                                                         mentioned price and the cost of transport to
                                                                     those areas,
Whereas      the calculation     of  derived   intervention      — in ports of shipment, on the basis of the price
prices should be made with reference to the most                     in the main production area for exports and the
favourable means of transport and existing tariffs;                  cost of transport to the main port of shipment
                                                                     for that area,
                                                                 — in other production areas whose surpluses are
(*) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                             likely to be exported to a certain extent, on the
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    basis of the price ruling in the ports of shipment                                     Article 7
    and the cost of transport to those ports,
— in deficit areas other than those mentioned above,           The marketing centres to be determined pursuant to
    on the basis of prices in the surplus area best            Article 4 (5 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
    placed from the freight point of view, and the             shall meet one of the following conditions :
    cost of transport to the deficit area.
                                                               ( a) location in regions having an appreciable produc­
                                                                     tion of cereals which considerably exceeds the
                        Article 2                                    lbcal demand either regularly or occasionally;
Where transport costs enter into the calculation of            (b) existence of substantial storage facilities ;
derived intervention prices for common wheat, they
shall be based on the most favourable means of                 (c) special importance as a market for the goods
transport or combination of means of transport and                   inside and outside the Community.
on existing tariffs.
Where inland waterway or sea freight charges are not
based on a tariff, the lowest average of those freight                                     Article 8
charges recorded over a period of two months
selected from the 12 months preceding the month                1 . Of the centres situated in regions of the kind
during which the prices are fixed shall be taken into          mentioned in Article 7 (a), only those centres shall be
account.                                                       considered which have :
                                                                ( a) storage facilities with technical equipment permit­
                        Article 3
                                                                     ting the taking over, handling and discharge of
                                                                      a sufficiently large quantity of cereals ;
In all cases, derived intervention prices for common
wheat shall be fixed in such a way that there is no             (b) transport connections favourable to the taking
discrimination between Community producers and in                    over and, more important, the disposal of cereals.
particular that common wheat coming from one
region cannot be offered in another region for less
than the intervention price applicable therein .               2. Of the centres meeting the conditions mentioned
                                                               in Article 7 (b ) or (c), only those shall be considered
                                                               whose storage facilities, technical equipment and
                        Aritcle 4                              advantageous geographical situation permit the
                                                               assembly and, more important, the disposal of large
Derived intervention prices for common wheat shall             homogeneous quantities of cereals.
in no case be fixed above the basic intervention price.
                        Article 5                                                          Article 9
When the intervention price for maize provided for             Each year the Council, acting on a report from the
in Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 is             Commission, shall examine the results of the applica­
calculated, the basic intervention price which would           tion of the rules laid down in the preceding Articles.
have been fixed for the Community if Article 4 ( 1 )
of that Regulation had applied shall be equal to the
target price for maize reduced by the difference
between the target price and the basic intervention                                       Article 10
price for barley for the marketing year in question.
                                                                1 . Council Regulation (EEC) No 131/67/EEC (*) of
                        Article 6
                                                                13 June 1967 laying down rules for deriving interven­
                                                               tion prices and for determining certain marketing
                                                               centres for cereals, as last amended by Act of Acces­
Derived intervention prices for common wheat for                sion (2), is hereby repealed.
the marketing centres referred to in Article 4 (5 ) (a)
of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 shall be fixed in
such a way that they cannot disturb the normal                 (!) OJ No 120, 21 . 6. 1967, p . 2362/67.
pattern of trade.                                              (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
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2. References to the Regulation repealed by para­             Articles of that Regulation with those of this Regu­
graph 1 shall be construed as references to this              lation.
Regulation.
                                                                                     Article 11
A table is provided in the Annex for the purposes              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
of correlating citations of and references to the              1975 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Luxembourg, 29 October 1975 .
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                The President
                                                                                G. MARCORA
                                                       ANNEX
                                                     Correlation
                         Regulation No 131 /67/EEC                        This Regulation
                         Article 8                                        Article 7
                         Article 9                                        Article 8
                         Article 10                                       Article 9