CELEX: 31991R2600
Language: en
Date: 1991-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2600/91 of 30 August 1991 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

No L 243/34                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  31 . 8 . 91
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2600/91
                                                     of 30 August 1991
                                       fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      market trend ; whereas offers and quotations recorded
                                                                 during the first 25 days of the month in question for
                                                                 quantities that can be delivered during the following
                                                                 calendar month are to be used ; whereas the average world
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            market price thus determined is used to fix the aid rate
Economic Community,
                                                                 applicable on the following month ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,
                                                                 Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in the
                                                                 case of offers and quotations not of the type referred to
                                                                 above ; whereas these adjustments were defined in Article
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78             3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30
of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the                 June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application
market in dried fodder ('), as last amended by Regulation        of the system of aid for dried fodder (6), as last amended
(EEC) No 2275/89 (2), and in particular Article 5 (3)            by Regulation (EEC) No 1757/90 0 ;
thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 1417/78, when no offer or quotation can be
                                                                 used to determine the average world market price, that
Whereas, under Article 5 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No             price is determined on the basis of the sum of the value
1117/78, when the guide price is higher than the average         of competing products ; whereas those products are
world market price, aid is granted for dried fodder as           defined in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 ;
described under Article 1 (b) and (c) of that Regulation
and obtained from fodder plants harvested in the
Community ; whereas that aid takes account of a
percentage of the difference between these two prices ;
                                                                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                 1417/78, when forward prices differ from that applying in
Whereas this percentage and the guide price were fixed           the month when the application is lodged, the aid rate is
by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1627/91 (3) for the               adjusted by a correcting amount calculated from the trend
1991 /92 marketing year ;                                        of forward prices ;
Whereas the average world market price is determined for
a bulk pelleted product, delivered to Rotterdam, of the          Whereas, where the average world market price is deter­
standard quality for which the guide price has been fixed ;      mined in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 1417/78, the corrective amount must be equal to the
                                                                 difference between the average world market price and
                                                                 the average forward world market price determined by
Whereas, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 of            applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regula­
 19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried fodder (4), as last    tion (EEC) No 1528/78 and valid for delivery during a
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1110/89 (*), the average          month other than that in which the aid is introduced,
world market price for the products described in the first       adjusted by the percentage fixed under Article 5 (2) of
and third indents of Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No        Regulation (EEC) No 11 17/78 ; whereas where the average
 1117/78 is to be determined on the basis of the most
                                                                 forward world market price for one or more months
favourable actual purchase possibilities excepting those         cannot be determined by applying the criteria laid down
which cannot be considered representative of the real            in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78, the
                                                                 corrective amount must be fixed for the month or months
(') OJ No L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1 .                             in question at a level such that the aid is equal to zero ;
(j OJ No L 218, 28. 7. 1989, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 150, 15. 6. 1991 , p. 15.
(4) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 1 .                           (6) OJ No L 179, 1 . 7. 1978 , p. 10.
0 OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 1 .                               0 OJ No L 162, 28 . 6. 1990, p. 21 .
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Whereas, if the aid system is to operate normally, refunds        products from third countries ; whereas, in addition, in
should be calculated on the following basis ;                     Spain the amount is to be adjusted by the difference,
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­         multiplied by the percentage referred to in Article 5 (2) of
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 111 7/78, between the guide price
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band         applied in Spain and the common guide price ;
     of 2,25 % , a conversion rate based on their central
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in    Whereas, as the result of the applications of all these
     the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­      provisions to the offers and quotations which the
     tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­       Commission has recorded, the rate of the additional aid
     tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (2),                                   for dried fodder must be fixed as indicated in the table
                                                                  annexed to this Regulation,
— for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
     average of the ecu rates published in the Official
    Journal of the European Communities, C series, over           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
     cient referred to in the preceding indent ;                                           Article 1
Whereas the rate of the additional aid must be fixed once         The rate of the aid referred to in Article 5 (3) of Regula­
per month so as to ensure application of the aid from the         tion (EEC) No 1117/78 is fixed in the Annex to this
first day of the month following the date of its fixing ;         Regulation.
Whereas, pursuant to Articles 120 (2) and 306 (2) of the                                   Article 2
Act of Accession, the additional aid applicable in these
two Member States is to be adjusted by an amount equal            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
to the amount of customs duties on imports of these               1991 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 August 1991 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
I2) OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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                                                                       ANNEX
                       to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1991 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
Aid applicable from 1st August 1991 to dried fodder :
                                                                                                                               (ECU/tonne)
                                                  Fodder dehydrated by artificial heat drying       Fodder otherwise dried
                                                            Protein concentrates
                                                                                       Other                              Other
                                                   Spain          Portugal           Member   Portugal                  Member
                                                                                       States                             States
Aid (')                                           82,196           81,607             82,196  48,667                     49,256
Aid in case of advance fixing for the month of :
                                                                                                                               (ECU/tonne)
October 1991                                      83,028           82,445             83,028  49,505                     50,088
November 1991                                     82,360           81,772             82,360  48,832                     49,420
December 1991                                     82,360           81,772             82,360  48,832                    49,420
January 1992                                      77,716           77,093             77,716  44,153                    44,776
February 1992                                     77,144           76,516             77,144  43,576                     44,204
March 1992 (')                                     0,000            0,000              0,000   0,000                      0,000
(*) In accordance with Article 6 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 .