CELEX: 51984PC0020(03)
Language: en
Date: 1984-01-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) OF FIXING CEREAL PRICES FOR THE 1984/85 MARKETING YEAR

5.3.84                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No C 62/1
                                                            II
                                                    (Preparatory Acts)
                                               COMMISSION
              COMMISSION PROPOSALS FOR DETERMINING THE PRICE OF
              CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND CERTAIN RELATED
                                           MEASURES (1984/85)
                                        COM(84) 20 final/Volume III
                     (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 24 January 1984)
          Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing cereal prices for the 1984/85 marketing year
                                                 (84/C 62/01)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas in many cases surpluses can no longer be
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   disposed of on normal terms either inside or outside
                                                                the Community; whereas this is particularly so in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro-             the case of common wheat; whereas, in order to
 pean Economic Community, and in particular                     reduce the cost to the budget of disposing of sur-
 Article 43 thereof,                                            pluses on markets outside the Community and to
                                                                encourage greater consumption within the Com-
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   munity, the policy of caution on prices should
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organ-                become a policy of restriction and the gap between
 ization of the market in cereals ( l ), as last amended        Community prices and those of the other principal
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1451/82 (2), and in parti-              exporting countries should be progressively
 cular Articles 3 (6) and 4 thereof,                            reduced; whereas this objective may be attained by
                                                                keeping all prices for the 1984/85 marketing year,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commis-                 except those of durum wheat, identical with those
 sion,                                                          set for the 1983/84 marketing year;
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
liament,                                                        Whereas, as far as common wheat is concerned, the
                                                                price to be applied in the event of special interven-
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and               tion measures for the minimum bread-making
Social Committee,                                               quality should not be set by this Regulation but
                                                                determined at the time when such measures are
Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on                 introduced;
modern farms, is the main instrument of the
incomes policy in agriculture; whereas full advan-
tage cannot be drawn from such a policy unless it is            Whereas, as far as durum wheat is concerned, sup-
integrated into the common agricultural policy as a             ply and demand are fairly well balanced and a
whole, including a dynamic social and structural                prices policy as restrictive as that for the other
policy and the application of the rules on competi-             cereals is not therefore required;
tion contained in the Treaty;
 (') OJNoL281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.                               Whereas, pursuant to Article 3a of Regulation
 (2) OJ No L 164, 14. 6. 1982, p. 1.                            (EEC) No 2727/75, a guarantee threshold should be
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set both for durum wheat and for the other cereals;            ogation from the provisions of Article 3 (5) of Regu-
                                                               lation (EEC) No 2727/75.
Whereas the guarantee threshold must be part of a
medium-term approach; Whereas, in view of the
prospects for both the Community and external                                          Article 2
markets, the guarantee threshold for 1989/90 can be
fixed at 4,710 million tonnes for durum wheat and              For the 1984/85 marketing year the guarantee thres-
kept at 126 million tonnes for the other cereals;              hold referred to in Article 3a of Regulation (EEC)
                                                               No 2727/75 shall be 4,534 million tonnes for durum
Whereas in the light of this medium-term approach              wheat and 121,32 million tonnes for the other
the guarantee thresholds for 1984/85 should be                 cereals.
fixed at 4,534 million tonnes for durum wheat and
 121,32 million tonnes for the other cereals,
                                                                                       Article 3
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
                                                               day following its publication in the Official Journal
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                   of the European Communities.
                                                               It shall apply:
                        Article 1
                                                               — from 1 July 1984 in the case of durum wheat,
1. The prices applicable in the cereals sector for
the 1984/85 marketing year shall be as indicated in            — from 1 August 1984 in the case of the other
the Annex.                                                          products.
2. The target prices given in the Annex, with the              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
exception of that for durum wheat, are fixed in der-            directly applicable in all Member States.
                                                         ANNEX
                                                                                                 ECU/tonne
              COMMON WHEAT, RYE, BARLEY, MAIZE AND SORGHUM
                Common single intervention price                                                    184,58
              COMMON WHEAT
                Reference price                                                                     215,29
                Target price                                                                        261,41
              RYE, BARLEY, MAIZE AND SORGHUM
                Target price                                                                        238,17
              DURUM WHEAT
                Single intervention price                                                           315,20
                Target price                                                                        360,96