CELEX: 31976R1151
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1151/76 of 17 May 1976 fixing cereal and rice prices for the 1976/77 marketing year

19 . 5 . 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 130/ 17
                                         COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1151 /76
                                                           of 17 May 1976
                              fixing cereal and rice prices for the 1976/77 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Whereas the intervention prices and target prices for
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        the principal cereals must be fixed in such a way as to
                                                                     promote a balance between the different sections of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               production on the basis of actual market require­
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                    ments, while at the same time ensuring the improve­
 thereof,                                                            ment of farm incomes ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                  Whereas, in order to facilitate transition from the
 tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by               arrangements applied during the 1975/76 marketing
 Regulation (EEC) No 11 43/76 (2), and in particular                 year to those laid down in Article 3 of Regulation
Articles 3 (6) and 4 thereof,                                        (EEC) No 2727/75, the principle of fixing the single
                                                                     intervention prices for common wheat, barley and
 Having regard to Council Regulation 359/67/ EEC of                  maize at a common level may, under Article 4 of that
 25 July 1967 on the common organization of the                      Regulation , be waived for the 1976/77 marketing
 market in rice (3 ), as last amended by Regulation                  year ;
(EEC) No 668 /75 (4), and in particular Articles 2 (4)
 and 4 (4) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas, on the one hand, in order to guarantee the
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  fluidity of the Community barley and maize markets,
                                                                     while at the same time avoiding excessive price
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                increases, it seems advisable that, in a first stage, the
 ment (5),                                                           intervention prices for these products should only be
                                                                     moved towards alignment, pending complete align­
                                                                     ment, account being taken of the normal ratio
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                    between the average relative values of these two
Social Committee (6),                                                cereals for use in animal feed ;
Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on
 modernized farms, is the main instrument of the
 incomes policy in agriculture ; whereas full advantage              Whereas, on the other hand, in the case of common
cannot be drawn from such a policy unless it is inte­                wheat, the intervention price should be fixed, as a tran­
grated into the common agricultural policy as a                      sitional measure, at a level corresponding to the
whole, including a dynamic social and structural                     minimum breadmaking quality ; whereas, in calcu­
 policy and the application of the rules on competition              lating this price, account should be taken in particular
contained in the Treaty ;                                            of the difference in return between the production of
                                                                     this common wheat of minimum breadmaking quality
                                                                     and that of common wheat of non-breadmaking
Whereas the common agricultural prices must be                       quality, which difference can at present be assessed at
fixed by a method which takes account of objective                   13 % ; whereas the third subparagraph of Article 4 (2)
criteria ; whereas, when those prices are fixed, account             of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 provides that in this
should also be taken of the objectives of the common                 case no reference price need be fixed ;
agricultural policy and of the contribution which the
 Community desires to make to the harmonious deve­
lopment of world trade ; whereas the objectives of the
common agricultural policy are in particular to ensure               Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
a fair standard of living for the agricultural commu­                No 2727/75, if the derogation provided for in that
nity, to ensure that supplies are available and that they            Regulation is invoked, the common target price for
reach consumers at reasonable prices ;                               barley and maize is fixed for the 1976/77 marketing
                                                                     year using the level of the single intervention price for
(') OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 1 .                           barley as the level for the common single intervention
(2) See   page 1 of this Official Journal .                          price ; whereas paragraph 2 (3) of that Article lays
(3) OJ   No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .                               down that, in calculating the target price for common
(4) OJ   No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p . 18 .
(5) OJ   No C 53 , 8 . 3 . 1976, p . 24.                             wheat, the intervention price for this cereal should be
(6) OJ   No C 50 , 4. 3 . 1976, p . 19 .                             used instead of its reference price ;
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Whereas the target price for rice must be fixed at a        the measures provided for in respect of the exchange
rate which takes account of the levels and intended         rates to be applied in agriculture, entail the fixing of
trends of production, the use made of the product and       those prices at the levels shown in the Annexes,
the improvement of farm incomes ;
Whereas the Aries and Vercelli intervention prices for      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
paddy rice should be derived from the target price for
husked rice, in accordance with the criteria set out in
                                                                                   Article 1
Article 4 (3) of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC ;
Whereas application of these criteria entails fixing the    For the 1976/77 marketing year, the cereal and rice
same intervention prices for Aries and Vercelli at a        prices shall be those fixed in the Annexes.
level higher than that adopted for the preceding
marketing year ;                                                                   Article 2
Whereas, in respect of the products referred to in this     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Regulation, the application of the criteria for the         following its publication in the Official Journal of
fixing of the different prices, and the application of       the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels, 17 May 1976.
                                                                        For the Council
                                                                         The President
                                                                         J. HAMILIUS
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                                                         ANNEX I
                                                         CEREALS
                                                                                  u. a. / metric ton
             COMMON WHEAT
                Single intervention price for common wheat of minimum breadmaking
                quality :
                — in Denmark                                                            126-72
                — in Ireland                                                            127-88
                — in the United Kingdom                                                 112-42
                — in the other Member States                                            131-00
                Target price                                                            152-00
             RYE
                Single intervention price                                               1 24-00
                Target price                                                            149-15
             BARLEY
                Single intervention price :
                — in Denmark                                                            112-41
                — in Ireland                                                            109-86
                — in the United Kingdom                                                   98-52
                — in the other Member States                                            11600
                Target price                                                            137-80
            MAIZE
                Single intervention price                                               112-20
                Target price                                                            137-80
             DURUM WHEAT
                Single intervention price                                              202-00
                Target price                                                           218-80
                                                        ANNEX 11
                                                           RICE
                                                                                  u. a. / metric ton
            (a) Target price for husked rice                                           284-52
            (b) Intervention price for paddy rice (Aries and Vercelli)                  164-16