CELEX: 51991PC0024
Language: en
Date: 1991-02-18
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) AMENDING COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) NO 1191/89 DEROGATING FROM REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 797/85 AS REGARDS CERTAIN INVESTMENT AIDS IN THE PIG PRODUCTION SECTOR

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                   C0M(91) 24 final
                                                   Brussels, 18 February 1991
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                                       Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
              amending Council Regulation (EEC) No.1191/89 derogating from
                      Regulation (EEC) No.797/85 as regards certain
                       Investment aids in the pig production sector
                               (presented by the Commission)
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                            EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM
1. Under Regulation (EEC) No.797/85 on improving the efficiency of
   agricultural structures investment aid for pig farms is subject to the
   requirement that the farm have enough land to produce at least 35% of the
   pigs' feed (the "35% clause").
2. In order to promote improvement of the health situation on pig farms in
   Community areas covered by swine fever eradication programmes and on pig
   farms in certain areas of Greece, Spain and Portugal where holdings are
   small or land unproductive, and the health aspect of pig farming is
   unsatisfactory, the Council on 27 April 1989 adopted, on a Commission
   proposal, Regulation (EEC) No.1191/89 enabIing the Commission to waive this
   35% requirement, if certain conditions were met, up to 31 December 1990.
3. The Member States have been faced with substantial administrative problems
   in applying this derogation, worsened  in the case of Belgium by a fresh
   outbreak of swine fever in the opening months of 1990 that obliged the
   Belgian authorities to organize the slaughter of 1.170.000 pigs.   The
   health problems therefore remain, but only a small number of holdings have
   benefitted from the derogation.
4. When it met on 6 November the Council accordingly asked the Commission to
   propose an extension of the derogation.
5. Given the situation as indicated above, the Commission considers that a
   one-year extension of the derogation would be justified.
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                                   PROPOSAL FOR
                            A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
          amending Council Regulation (EEC) No.1191/89 derogating from
                  Regulation (EEC) No.797/85 as regards certain
                   investment aids in the pig production sector
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Having regard to the-Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and
in particular Articles 42 and 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European par Iiament,(1)
Whereas the last subparagraph of Article 3(4) of Council Regulation (EEC)
No.797/85 of 12 March 1985 on improving the efficiency of agricultural
structures^2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No.3577/90^3), makes the
granting of investment aid for pig production subject to a requirement that at
 least the equivalent of 35% of the pigs' feed can be produced on the holding;
Whereas the difficulties on account of which Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
No.1l9l/89^4^, provides for a temporary derogation from the last subparagraph
of Article 3(4) of Regulation (EEC) No.797/85 persist;    whereas the period of
validity of the derogation should therefore be extended,
 (1)   OJ No. C.
 (2)   OJ No.  L 93, 30.03.1985, p. 1
 (3)   OJ No.  L353, 17.12.1990, p. 23
 (4)   OJ No.  L123, 04.05.1989, p. 1
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                   Article 1
The date of 31 December 1990 in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No.1191/89 is
replaced by 31 December 1991.
                                   Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Communities.
 It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1991.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and direct I y appIicab le in
a I I Member States.
Done at Brussels,
                                             For the CounciI
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