CELEX: 31980R0953
Language: en
Date: 1980-04-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 953/80 of 17 April 1980 fixing the world market price for colza and rape seed

18 . 4. 80                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 101 /43
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 953/80
                                                      of 17 April 1980
                               fixing the world market price for colza and rape seed
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   — the application of the common agricultural policy,
 COMMUNITIES,
                                                                 — the special trade arrangements for goods resulting
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               from the processing of agricultural products ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas the period of validity of the aforesaid Regula­
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC               tion was limited to 31 March 1980 ; whereas it has not
 of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                  been possible for a prolongation of those arrange­
 common organization of the markets in oils and                  ments, proposed by the Commission, to be adopted in
 fats (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                time by the Council ; whereas, in order to avoid a
 590/79 (2),                                                     break in the arrangements resulting, in particular, in
                                                                 alterations in the level of prices and of other amounts
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    in national currency, it appears necessary, in the
 1569/72 of 20 July 1972 laying down special                     manifest public interest, as a precautionary measure
 measures for colza and rape seed (3), as last amended           and pending a final decision on the matter by the
 by Regulation (EEC) No 852/78 (4),                              Council, to continue the application of the arrange­
                                                                 ments in their present form ;
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 2300/73 of 23 August 1973 laying down detailed                  Whereas, if the price system is to operate normally,
 rules for applying differential amounts for colza and           the world market price should be calculated on the
 rape seed and repealing Regulation (EEC) No                     following basis :
 1 464/73 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
336/80 (6), and in particular Article 9 (4) thereof,             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                     relation to each other at any given moment within
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on
Committee,                                                           their effective parity ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 9 (4) of Regulation (EEC)           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 No 2300/73, the Commission must determine the                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
world market price for colza and rape seed ;                         of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas the world market price should be deter­                      in the previous indent ;
mined in accordance with the rules and the criteria              1 1 it follows from applying these provisions that the
set out in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 620/80                 world market price for colza and rape seed should be
                                                                 as set out in the Annex hereto,
of 1 3 March 1 980 fixing the amount of the subsidy on
oil seeds (7), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 952/80 (8) ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
March 1979 on the impact of the European monetary
system on the common agricultural policy (9), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1264/79 ( 10), intro­
duced the ECU into the common agricultural policy ;                                       Article 1
whereas, since that time, pursuant to existing provi­
sions, the ECU has been taken into account in the
fixing of amounts relating to :                                  The world market price referred to in Article 9 (4) of
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 2300/73 shall be as set out in
(') OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                          the Annex hereto .
 2) OJ No L 78, 30. 3. 1979, p. 1 .
 3) OJ No L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9 .
 <) OJ No L 116, 28 . 4. 1978 , p. 6.
 5) OJ No L 236, 24. 8 . 1973, p. 28 .                                                    Article 2
 *) OJ No L 37, 14. 2. 1980, p 17.
 7) OJ No L 68 , 14. 3 . 1980, p. 16 .
 8) See page 41 of this Official Journal.
 9) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 April
 10) OJ No L 161 , 29. 6. 1979, p. 1 .                           1 980 .
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                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 17 April 1980.
                                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                        Vice-President
                                                                       ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 17 April 1980 fixing the world market price for colza
                                                                  and rape seed
                                                                                                                                       (ECU / 100 kg) (')
           CCT
          heading                                   Description                                                     World market price
            No
    ex 12.01           Colza and rape seed                                                                                19-639
                                                                                                                                       (/:(.!>/ 100
                                                                                            World market price where the subsidy
           CCT                                                                               is fixed in advance for the month of
          heading                       Description
            No
                                                                         April         May             June          July       August       September
                                                                         1980          1980            1980          1980         1980           1980
    ex 12.01           Colza and rape seed                             1 9-639       19-639          19-507        19-658      20-431         20-808
    (') The conversion rates from ECU into national currency as foreseen by Article 9 ( 5) (a) of Regulation ( EEC) No 2300/73 arc the following :
        I  ECU   - DM           2-48208
        I  ECU   - Fl           2.74362
        I  ECU   - Bfr/Lfr     39 7897
       1   ECU   - FP           5 84700
        1  ECU   - Dkr          7 72336
        1  ECU   - I £          0-668201
        1  ECU   - £            0-596178
        I  ECU   - Lit      I 148-14