CELEX: 31984R1013
Language: en
Date: 1984-04-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1013/84 of 12 April 1984 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

No L 101 /30                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               13 . 4. 84
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1013/84
                                                        of 12 April 1984
                                       fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     offers on the world market known to the Commission
COMMUNITIES,                                                       and of quotations on those exchanges which are signi­
                                                                   ficant for international trade ; whereas Article 2 of
                                                                   Commission Regulation No 225/67/EEC of 28 June
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               1967 on detailed rules for determining the world
Economic Community,                                                market price for oil seeds Q, as last amended by Regu­
                                                                   lation (EEC) No 2040/83 (8), provides that offers and
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC                  quotations which do not relate to shipments to be
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                     effected within 30 days following the date on which
common organization of the market in oils and fats ('),            the world market price is determined should be disre­
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1413/82 (2),                garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the
and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof,                          Commission believes, in view of general price move­
                                                                   ments or information available to it, not to be repre­
                                                                   sentative of the real trend of the market must also be
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
Committee,                                                         quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating to
                                                                   seed of a quality other than that normally acceptable
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                     on the world market must also be disregarded ;
provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of
oil seeds harvested and processed within the Commu­
nity when the target price for a species of seed is                Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
higher than the price on the world market ; whereas                provides that of the offers and quotations taken into
these provisions at present apply only in respect of               consideration, those for delivery c and f should be
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                  increased by 0,2 % ; whereas offers and quotations for
                                                                   delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased, as
                                                                   appropriate, by loading, transport and insurance costs
Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically,            from the point of shipment or loading to the frontier
be equal to the difference between those two prices ;              crossing point ; whereas cif offers and quotations for
                                                                   frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in              be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and
the target price for oil seeds for the 1983/84 marketing           insurance costs as compared with a product delivered
                                                                   cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take
year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 1591 /83 (3)
and (EEC) No 1592/83 (4) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu­             account only of the loading, transport and insurance
lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market                costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas,
price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing                finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam
point, is to be determined on the basis of the most                should be increased by 0,242 ECU ;
favourable purchasing opportunities, quotations being
adjusted where necessary to take account of quotations
for competing products ;                                           Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC
                                                                   provides that the world market price should be deter­
                                                                   mined for seed of the standard quality for which the
Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 1 1 5/                  target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ;
67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­
mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing
the frontier crossing point (*), as last amended by                Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
Regulation (EEC) No 1983/82 (*), fixed the said cros­              provides that offers and quotations relating to products
sing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that                 presented otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted
Regulation provides that when the world market price               by deducting the additional value resulting from that
is being determined account should be taken of all                  presentation ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
                                                                   a quality other than the standard quality for which the
(') OJ No  172, 30 . 9.    1966, p.  3025/66.                      target price was fixed should be adjusted on the basis
0   OJ No  L 162, 12.     6. 1982,   p. 6.                         of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex
(3) OJ No  L 163, 22.     6. 1983,   p. 40 .
(4) OJ No  L 163, 22.     6 . 1983 , p. 42.
fl  OJ No  111 , 10 . 6 . 1967, p.   2196/67.                      0 OJ No 136, 30 . 6. 1967, p. 2919/67.
I6) OJ No  L 215, 23 .    7. 1982,   p. 6.                         (8) OJ No L 200, 23. 7. 1983, p. 23.
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to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case of offers on        Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14
the world market for qualities of colza and rape seed         June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down
other than those listed in that Annex, coefficients of        rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas,
equivalence derived from those listed in that Annex           under that Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted
may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 225/              is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must
67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived coef­              be equal to the amount applicable on the day on
ficients are being calculated, account must be taken of       which the application for advance fixing was lodged,
 the differences between prices for the qualities of seed     adjusted by the difference between the target price
 in question and prices for the qualities listed in that     valid on that day and the target price valid on the day
Annex, and of the characteristics of these various            on which the seeds are placed under control at an oil
 seeds ;                                                      or feed mill and, where appropriate, a corrective
                                                              amount ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regula­
                                                              tion (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying
                                                              down detailed rules for the application of the subsidy
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                 system for oil seeds, as amended by Regulation (EEC)
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used        No 837/84 (2), provides that such adjustment should
as a basis for determining the world market price, that       involve increasing or reducing the amount of subsidy
 price should be determined on the basis of the value        applicable on the day on which the application was
of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting       lodged by the corrective amount and the difference
 from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within          between the target prices mentioned in Article 35 of
the Community less an amount corresponding to the             Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 ;
cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ;
whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into
consideration for the purposes of the calculation are
fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ;
whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­
mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­
 tion ;                                                       Whereas Article 37 of Regulation No 2681 /83
                                                              provides that the corrective amount must be equal to
                                                              the difference between the world market price for
                                                              colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                 for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used        the month in which the seeds were placed under
as a basis for determining the world market price and         control at an oil mill, those prices being determined in
where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value     accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation No
of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the          115/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer and no price can be
world market price should be determined on the basis          used for such determination, the method of calculation
of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake,
                                                              provided for in Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No
adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices         2681 / 83 should be used ; whereas the abovementioned
for competing products by applying to that value the          difference may be adjusted in accordance with Article
rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No 115/              38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account being
67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/              taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ;
67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or
oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have
been offered in the largest quantities on the world
market during the period under consideration ;               Whereas, in the absence of the target price for the
                                                              1984/85 marketing year for colza, rape and sunflower
                                                             seed and in the absence of the amount of the monthly
Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 115/               increase for September 1984 for colza and rape seed,
67/EEC, the price determined for colza, rape and             the amount of the subsidy in the case of advance
sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount           fixing for July, August and September 1984 for colza
not exceeding the margin, as calculated in accordance        and rape seed and August 1984 for sunflower seed has
with that Article, where that margin may affect the          been obtainable only provisionally on the basis of the
normal disposal of seeds harvested in the Community ;        target price and the monthly increase proposed by the
                                                             Commission to the Council for the marketing year
                                                              1984/85 ; whereas this amount may, therefore, be
                                                             applied on a temporary basis and should be confirmed
Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for       or replaced when the indicative price of the 1984/85
the purpose of determining that margin are defined in        marketing year is known ;
Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/ EEC ; whereas no
adjustment should be made where the margin is found          (') OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44.
to be less than 0,604 ECU ;                                  (2) OJ No L 88, 31 . 3 . 1984, p. 50.
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whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
market situation makes it necessary and in such a way
as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ;                               Article 1
whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it
becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ;
                                                             1 . The amount of the subsidy referred to in Article
Whereas, if the subsidy system is to operate normally,       27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be as set out in
subsidies should be calculated on the following basis :      the Annex hereto.
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                             2. The amount of the subsidy in the case of advance
    relation to each other at any given moment within        fixing for July, August and September 1984 for colza
    a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on the       and rape seed and August 1984 for sunflower seed will,
    central rate,                                            however, be confirmed or replaced as from 13 April
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the        1984 to take into account the indicative price which is
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of      fixed for these products for the 1984/85 marketing
    these currencies recorded for a given period in          year, and the amount of the monthly increase for
    relation to the Community currencies referred to         September 1984 colza and rape seed.
    in the previous indent ;
Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to                               Article 2
the offers and quotations known to the Commission
that the subsidy on colza, rape and sunflower seeds          This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 April
should be as set out in the Annex hereto,                    1984 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 12 April 1984.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                         Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                           ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 12 April 1984 fixing the amount of the subsidy
                                                        on oil seeds
                                                                                                                        (ECU / 100 kg)
       CCT
     heading                               Description                                                 Subsidy
        No
ex 1 2.0 1         Colza and rape seed                                                                  7,973
ex 12.01           Sunflower seed                                                                      13,871
                                                                                                                        (ECU / 100 kg)
                                                                                   Subsidy in the case of advance
       CCT                                                                            fixing for the month of
     heading                      Description
       No                                                          April      May         June        July       August    September
                                                                   1984       1984         1984       1984        1984        1984
ex 12.01           Colza and rape seed                             7,973      7,973        7,737     2,554 (')   2,556 (')  3,076 (')
ex 12.01           Sunflower seed                                 13,871     14,521      15,190     15,014     1 1,292 (')     —
(') On the basis of the Commission s proposal concerning the indicative price and subject to confirmation by the Council's deci­
    sion .