CELEX: 31967R0131
Language: en
Date: 1967-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 131/67/EEC of the Council of 13 June 1967 laying down rules for deriving intervention prices and for determining certain marketing centres for cereals

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   2362/67                       OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                      21.6.67
                                  REGULATION No 131 /67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 13 June 1967
                       laying down rules for deriving intervention prices and for determining certain
                                                 marketing centres for cereals
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                           moreover, where waterway freight charges are not
   COMMUNITY,                                                     based on a tariff, the lowest freight charges recorded
                                                                  over a reference period should be taken into account;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
   pean Economic Community ;                                      Whereas intervention prices for the marketing centres
                                                                  to be determined by the Commission must not lead
   Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                 to disturbances in the normal pattern of trade ;
   EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation
 • of the market in cereals, and in particular Article            Whereas, to ensure the proper working of the inter­
   4 (5 ) thereof;                                                vention system, the selection of marketing centres
                                                                  other than the principal centres should be based on a
   Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;            geographical situation and storage facilities which
                                                                  allow the assembly and disposal of large quantities of
                                                                  cereals .
   Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC
   provides that derived intervention prices should be
   fixed at a level which will allow the free movement            Whereas, in order to assist the gradual transition
   of cereals within the Community in accordance with             from the system in force in the Member States for de­
   the needs of the market; whereas to this end inter­            termining marketing centres to the system established
   vention prices should be fixed in such a way that the          by this Regulation, provision should be made for
   differences between them correspond to the dispari­            taking special measures for a limited period ;
   ties in prices to be expected in a normal harvest
   under natural conditions of price formation on the
   market; .
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   Whereas the level of market prices is not determined
   solely by the cost of transport to Duisburg, the mar­                                 Article 1
   keting centre in the area of greatest deficit in the
   north-west of the Community ; whereas account
   should also be taken of the geographical situation of          For the purpose of fixing derived intervention prices,
   the surplus and deficit areas of the Community, the            market prices shall be considered as being established
   requirements of other consumer areas, imports from             under natural conditions of price formation as fol­
                                                                  lows :
   third countries and export possibilities ;
                                                                  — in deficit areas whose supplies depend to a certain
. Whereas derived intervention prices in the different                extent on imports, on the basis of the price at
   marketing centres should be fixed at such a level that             which imported cereals are offered in those areas ;
   cereals coming from other areas cannot be offered at
   a price below that level ;                                     — in production areas whose surpluses contribute to
                                                                      a certain extent to the supply of the above-men­
                                                                      tioned areas, on the basis of the above-mentioned
   Whereas the calculation of derived intervention prices
   should be made with reference to the most favour­                  price and the cost of transport to those areas ;
    able means of transport and existing tariffs ; and             — in ports of shipment, on the basis of the price in
                                                                      the main production area for exports and the cost
                                                                      of transport to the main port of shipment for that
    1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2269/67.                               area ;
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— in other production areas whose surpluses are                                        Article 7
    likely to be exported to a certain extent, on the
    basis of the price ruling in the ports of shipment        1 . When derived intervention prices for barley and
    and the cost of transport to those ports ;                maize for Italy are fixed, account shall be taken of
                                                              the effect of the measures taken in application of
— in deficit areas other than those mentioned above,          Article 23 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC.
    on the basis of prices in the surplus area best
    placed from the freight point of view, and the            2.     If a single intervention price is fixed for maize,
    cost of transport to the deficit area.                    paragraph 1 shall not apply to that cereal.
                        Article 2                                                      Article 8
Where transport costs enter into the calculation of           The marketing centres to be established in appli­
derived intervention prices, they shall be based on the       cation of Article 4 (5 ) (a) of Regulation No 120/67/
most favourable means of transport or combination             EEC shall meet one of the following conditions :
of means of transport and on existing tariffs.
                                                              (a) location in regions having an appreciable pro­
Where inland waterway or sea freight charges are not               duction of cereals which considerably exceeds the
based on a tariff, the lowest average of these freight             local demand either regularly or occasionally;
charges recorded over a period of two months                  (b) existence of substantial storage facilities ;
selected from the twelve months preceding the month
during which the prices are fixed shall be taken into          (c) special importance as a market for the goods
account.                                                           inside and outside the Community.
                        Article 3                                                      Article 9
In all cases, derived intervention prices shall be fixed      1.     Of the centres situated in regions of the kind
in such a way that there is no discrimination between         mentioned in Article 8 ( a), only those centres which
Community producers and in particular that cereals            meet the following conditions shall be considered :
coming from one region cannot be offered in another           those having
region for less than the intervention price applicable
therein .
                                                              (a) storage facilities with technical equipment permit­
                                                                   ting the intake, treatment and continuous dis­
                                                                   charge of a reasonably large quantity of cereals ;
                        Article 4
                                                              (b) transport connections favourable to the taking
                                                                   over and, more important, the disposal of cereals.
Derived intervention prices shall in no case be fixed
above the basic intervention price.                           2.     Of the centres meeting the conditions men­
      I                                                       tioned in Article 8 ( b ) or ( c), only those shall be con­
                        Article 5
                                                              sidered whose storage facilities, technical equipment
                                                              and advantageous geographical situation permit the
                                                              assembly and, more important, the disposal of large
When the intervention price for maize provided for in '       homogeneous quantities of cereals.
Article 4 (2) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC is calcu­
lated, the basic intervention price which would have
been fixed for the Community if Article 4 ( 1 ) of that                                Article 10
Regulation had applied shall be equal to the target
price for maize reduced by the difference between the         Each year the Council, acting upon a report from the
target price and the basic intervention price for barley      Commission, shall examine the results of the appli­
for the marketing year in question.                            cation of the rules laid down in the preceding
                                                              Articles .
                        Article 6
                                                                                       Article 11
Derived intervention prices for the marketing centres
referred to in Article 4 (5 ) ( a) of Regulation No 120/      1 . The provisions of Article 2 may be derogated
67/EEC shall be fixed in such a way that they cannot          from in the fixing of derived intervention prices for
disturb the normal pattern of trade.                          the 1967/68 marketing year.
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2. The provisions of Articles 8 and 9 may be dero­           the full application of the rules laid down in Articles
gated from in the determination of the marketing             8 and 9 shall be taken into consideration.
centres referred to in Article 4 (5 ) (a) of Regulation
No 120/67/EEC for the 1967/68 and 1968 /69 mar­
keting years.                                                                       Article 12
In such cases the need to move progressively towards         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1967.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 13 June 1967.
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                     Ch. HEGER
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