CELEX: 31991R0498
Language: en
Date: 1991-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 498/91 of 28 February 1991 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

No L 55/64                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  1 . 3 . 91
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 498/91
                                                      of 28 February 1991
                                         fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        percentages referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 1 1 17/78 for the 1991 /92 marketing year are known ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas the average world market price is determined for
 Economic Community,                                               a bulk pelleted product, delivered to Rotterdam, of the
                                                                   standard quality for which the guide price has been fixed ;
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
 Portugal,                                                         Whereas, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 of
                                                                    19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried fodder (*), as last
                                                                   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1110/89 (®), the average
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 111 7/78             world market price for the products described in the first
of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the                   and third indents of Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1117/78 is to be determined on the basis of the most
market in dried fodder ('), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2275/89 (2), and in particular Article 5 (3)              favourable actual purchase possibilities excepting those
thereof,                                                           which cannot be considered representative of the real
                                                                   market trend ; whereas offers and quotations recorded
                                                                   during the first 25 days of the month in question for
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,           quantities that can be delivered during the following
                                                                   calendar month are to be used ; whereas the average world
                                                                   market price thus determined is used to fix the aid rate
Whereas, under Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No              applicable on the following month ;
 1117/78, when the guide price is higher than the average
world market price, aid is granted for dried fodder as             Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in the
described under Article 1 (b) and (c) of that Regulation           case of offers and quotations not of the type referred to
and obtained from fodder plants harvested in the                   above ; whereas these adjustments were defined in Article
Community ; whereas that aid takes account of a                    3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30
percentage of the difference between these two prices ;            June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application
                                                                   of the system of aid for dried fodder f), as last amended
                                                                   by Regulation (EEC) No 1757/90 (8) ;
Whereas this percentage and the guide price were fixed
by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 192/90 (3) for the                Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation
marketing year 1990/ 1991 ;                                        (EEC) No 1417/78, when no offer or quotation can be
                                                                   used to determine the average world market price, that
                                                                   price is determined on the basis of the sum of the value
Whereas the prices fixed by the Council are to be reduced          of competing products ; whereas those products are
in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No                  defined in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1 528/78 ;
 1758/90 of 27 June 1990 establishing the guide price
fixed in ecus by the Council in the dried fodder sector
and reduced as a result of the monetary realignment of 5           Whereas, pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No
January 1990 (4);                                                   1417/78, when forward prices differ from that applying in
                                                                   the month when the application is lodged, the aid rate is
                                                                   adjusted by a correcting amount calculated from the trend
Whereas, owing to the lack of a guide price for dired              of forward prices ;
fodder, of an intervention price for barley and of the
percentages referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)           Whereas, where the average world market price is deter­
No 1117/78 for the 1991 /92 marketing year the rate of             mined in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
aid in advance for this marketing year has only been able          No 1417/78 , the corrective amount must be equal to the
to be calculated provisionally on the basis of the Commis­         difference between the average world market price and
sion'sprice proposals to the Council ; whereas this amount         the average forward world market price determined by
should, therefore, only be applied provisionally and               applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regula­
should be confirmed or replaced once the target price for          tion (EEC) No 1528/78 and valid for delivery during a
dried fodder, the intervention price for barley and the            month other than that in which the aid is introduced,
(') OJ No  L 142,  30.  5. 1978,  p. 1.                            (5) OJ No  L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L 218 , 28 . 7. 1989 , p. 1.                            (6) OJ No  L 118 , 29 . 4. 1989, p. 1 .
0   OJ No  L 119,  11 . 5. 1990,  p. 42.                           0   OJ No  L 179,  1 . 7. 1978 , p. 10.
(4) OJ No  L 162,  28 . 6. 1990,  p. 22.                           (8) OJ No  L 162,  28 . 6. 1990, p. 21 .
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 adjusted by the percentage fixed under Article 5 (2) of           products from third countries ; whereas, in addition, in
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 17/78 ; whereas where the average         Spain the amount is to be adjusted by the difference,
 forward world market price for one or more months                 multiplied by the percentage referred to in Article 5 (2) of
 cannot be determined by applying the criteria laid down           Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78, between the guide price
in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528 /78, the               applied in Spain and the common guide price ;
 corrective amount must be fixed for the month or months
 in question at a level such that the aid is equal to zero ;       Whereas, as the result of the applications of all these
                                                                   provisions to the offers and quotations which the
Whereas, if the aid system is to operate normally, refunds         Commission has recorded, the rate of the additional aid
 should be calculated on the following basis ;                     for dried fodder must be fixed as indicated in the table
 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                   annexed to this Regulation,
      tion to each other at any given moment within a band
      of 2,25 % , a conversion rate based on their central         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
      rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
      the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­                              Article 1
      tion (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­
      tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (2),
                                                                    1 . The rate of the aid referred to in Article 5 (3) of
— for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an           Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 is fixed in the Annex to
      average of the ecu rates published in the Official           this Regulation.
      Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
      a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­         2.     However, the rate of aid fixed in advance for the
      cient referred to in the preceding indent ;                   1991 /92 marketing year shall be confirmed or replaced
                                                                   with effect from 1 March 1991 to take account of the
Whereas the rate of the additional aid must be fixed once          guide price for dried fodder, the intervention price for
 per month so as to ensure application of the aid from the         barley and the percentages referred to in Article 5 of
 first day of the month following the date of its fixing ;         Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 for the 1991 /92 marketing
                                                                   year.
Whereas, pursuant to Articles 120 (2) and 306 (2) of the
Act of Accession, the additional aid applicable in these                                   Article 2
 two Member States is to be adjusted by an amount equal
 to the amount of customs duties on imports of these               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1991 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                    Done at Brussels, 28 February 1991 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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                                                                            ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 28 February 1991 fixing the rate of the aid for dried
                                                                             fodder
Aid applicable from 1 March 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                                                  76,893              84,815            85,513                  51,875                     52,573
Aid in case of advance fixing for the month of :
                                                                                                                                                     (ECU/tonne)
April 1991                                           81,198             89,152             89,818                   56,212                     56,878
May 1991 (')                                         69,758             72,683             73,206                  39,743                     40,266
June 1991 (')                                        72,126             75,070             75,574                  42,130                     42,634
July 1991 (2)                                         0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                      0,000
August 1991 (2)                                       0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                      0,000
September 1991 (2)                                    0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                       0,000
October 1991 (2)                                      0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                       0,000
November 1991 (2)                                     0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                       0,000
December 1991 (2)                                     0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                       0,000
January 1992 (2)                                      0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                       0,000
February 1992 (2)                                     0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                       0,000
March 1992 (2)                                        0,000               0,000             0,000                    0,000                       0,000
(') Rate fixed provisionally, pending and subject to the setting of the prices and related measures for the 1991 /92 marketing year, on the basis in particular of
    the commission's proposals for the 1991 /92 marketing year as regards :
    (a) the guide price for dried fodder ;
    (b) the percentage referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 .
(2) In accordance with Article 6 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528 /78.