CELEX: 31987R2323
Language: en
Date: 1987-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2323/87 of 31 July 1987 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

1 . 8 . 87                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 210/41
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2323/87
                                                           of 31 July 1987
                                         fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas, under the system of maximum guaranteed
                                                                      quantities, the amount of the aid is subject to the reduc­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 tion provided for in Commission Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community,                                                   2478/86 f) as regards sunflower seed ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                    Whereas the abatement of the subsidy which arises, where
Portugal,                                                             appropriate, from the system of maximum guaranteed
                                                                      quantities for the 1987/88 marketing year, has been fixed
                                                                      by Regulations (EEC) No 2292/87 (10) and (EEC) No
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of                  2295/87 (») ;
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common
organization of the market in oils and fats (') as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 191 5/87 (2) and in
particular Article 27 (4) thereof,
                                                                      Whereas the standard quality for sunflower seed has been
                                                                      changed by the Council for the 1987/88 marketing year ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          whereas the coefficients of equivalence applied to the
 1678 /85 (3) fixing the conversion rates to be applied in            prices of sunflower seed from third countries should be
agriculture, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   adjusted accordingly and have not yet been fixed ;
 1 890/87 (4),                                                        whereas the amount of the subsidy for sunflower seed for
                                                                      the 1987/88 marketing year was calulcated on the basis of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72                  coefficients of equivalence adapted to the new standard
of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures for colza,               quality ;
rape and sunflower seed 0, as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1869/87 (6), and in particular Article 2 (3)
thereof,
                                                                      Whereas Article 29 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
                                                                      provides that the world market price, calculated for a
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,               Community frontier crossing point, is to be determined
                                                                      on the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportuni­
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                        ties, quotations being adjusted where necessary to take
provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of oil           account of quotations for competing products ;
seeds harvested and processed within the Community
when the target price for a species of seed is higher than
the price on the world market ; whereas these provisions
at present apply only in respect of colza, rape and                   Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/67/EEC
 sunflower seeds ;                                                    of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for determining
                                                                      world market prices for oil seeds and fixing the frontier
Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically, be             crossing point (12), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
equal to the difference between those two prices ;                     No 1983/82 (13), fixed the said crossing point at
                                                                       Rotterdam ; whereas. Article 1 of that Regulation provides
                                                                       that when the world market price is being determined
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in the              account should be taken of all offers on the world market
 target price for colza, rape and sunflower seed for the               known to the Commission and of quotations on those
 1987/88 marketing year were fixed by Regulations (EEC)                exchanges which are significant for international trade ;
 No 1917/87Q and (EEC) No 1918/87                                     whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 225/
                                                                       67/EEC of 28 June 1967 ' on detailed rules for determi­
Whereas a supplement to the target price for 'double zero'             ning the world market price for oil seeds (14), as last
 colza and rape seed was fixed in Regulation (EEC) No                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2284/86 (1J), provides
 1917/ 87 ;                                                            that offers and quotations which do not relate to ship­
                                                                       ments to be effected within 30 days following the date on
(>)  OJ  No  172, 30 . 9. 1966, p. 3025/86.
(2)  OJ  No  L 183 , 3 . 7 . 1987, p. 7.                               0 OJ No L 212, 2. 8. 1986, p. 16.
 (3) OJ  No  L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 11 .                               (10) OJ No L 209, 31 . 7. 1987, p. 40.
0    OJ  No  L 182, 3 . 7 . 1987.                                      CM OT No L 209. 31 . 7. 1987. D . 43 .
WOl No I. 167 . 25 . 7 . 1972. D . 9 .                                 (12j OJ No 111 , 10. 6. 1967, p. 2196/67.
Is) OJ No L 176, 1 . 7. 1987, p. 4. p. 30.                             (I3) OJ No L 215, 23. 7. 1982, p. 6.
 o OJ No L 183 , 3 . 7 . 1987, p. 14.                                  H OJ No 136, 30. 6. 1967, p. 2919/67.
(8) OJ No L 183, 3 . 7. 1987, p. 16.                                   0 s) OJ No L 200, 23. 7. 1986, p. 16.
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which the world market price is determined should be             be determined in accordance with Article 6 of that
disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations which the            Regulation ;
Commission believes, in view of general price movements
or information available to it, not to be representative of
the real trend of the market must also be disregarded ;
whereas offers and quotations relating to quantities of less     Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides
than 500 tonnes and offers relating to seed of a quality         that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis
other than that normally acceptable on the world market          for determining the world market price and where it is,
must also be disregarded ;                                       moreover, impossible to establish the value of the oil or
                                                                 oil cake processed from such seed, the world market price
                                                                 should be determined on the basis of the most recent
                                                                 known value for oil or oil cake, adjusted to take account
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides           of the trend of world prices for competing products by
that of the offers and quotations taken into consideration,      applying to that value the rules set out in Article 2 of
those for delivery c and f should be increased by 0,2 % ;        Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of . Regula­
whereas offers and quotations for delivery fas, fob or           tion No 225/67/EEC defines competing products as those
othefwise should be increased, as appropriate, by loading,       oils or oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have
transport and insurance costs from the point of shipment         been offered in the largest quantities on the world market
or loading to the frontier crossing point ; whereas cif          during the period under consideration ;
offers and quotations for frontier crossing points other
than Rotterdam should be adjusted to allow for the diffe­
rence in transport and insurance costs as compared with a
product delivered cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commis­            Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC,
sion should take account only of the loading, transport          the price determined for colza, rape and sunflower seeds
and insurance costs which to its knowledge are the               must also be adjusted by an amount not exceeding the
lowest ; whereas, finally, offers and quotations for delivery    margin, as calculated in accordance with that Article,
cif Rotterdam should be increased by 0,242 ECU ;                 where that margin may affect the normal disposal of seeds
                                                                 harvested in the Community ;
Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides
that the world market price should be determined for             Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14
seed of the standard quality for which the target price has      June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds ('), as amended by
been fixed, delivered in bulk ;                                  Regulation (EEC) No 935/86 (2), laid down rules for gran­
                                                                 ting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas, under that Regula­
                                                                 tion, where the subsidy to be granted is fixed in advance, .
                                                                 the amount of such subsidy must be equal to the amount
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides           applicable on the day on which the application for
that offers and quotations relating to products presented        advance fixing was lodged, adjusted by the difference
otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted by deducting           between the target price valid on that day and the target
the additional value resulting from that presentation ;          price valid on the day on which the seeds are placed ,
whereas offers and quotations relating to a quality other        under control at an oil or feed mill and, where appro­
than the standard quality for which the target price was         priate, a corrective amount ; whereas Article 35 of
fixed should be adjusted on the basis of the coefficients of     Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21
equivalence shown in the Annex to that Regulation ;              September 1983 laying down detailed rules for the appli­
whereas, in the case of offers on the world market for           cation of the subsidy system for oil seeds (3), as last
qualities of colza and rape seed other than those listed in      amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2294/87 (4), provides
that Annex, coefficients of equivalence derived from those       that such adjustment should involve increasing or redu­
listed in that Annex may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regula­       cing the amount of subsidy applicable on the day on
tion No 225/67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived           which the application was lodged by the corrective
coefficients are being calculated, account must be taken of      amount and the difference between the target prices
the differences between prices for the qualities of seed in      mentioned in Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No
question and prices for the qualities listed in that Annex,      2681 /83 :
and of the characteristics of these various seeds :
                                                                 Whereas Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides           provides that the corrective amount must be equal to the
that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis         difference between the world market price for colza, rape
for determining the world market price, that price should        and sunflower seeds and the forward price for those seeds
be determined on the basis of the value of the average           valid for a shipment effected during the month in which
quantities of oil and oil cake resulting from the proces­        the seeds were placed under control at an oil mill, those
sing of 100 kilograms of seed within the Community less          prices being determined in accordance with Articles 1 , 4
an amount corresponding to the cost of processing these
seeds into oil and oil cake ; whereas the quantities and
                                                                 (') OJ  No  L  163, 22. 6. 1983,  p. 44.
costs to be taken into consideration for the purposes of         (2) OJ  No  L 87, 2. 4.  1986, p.  5.
the calculation are fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No          (3) OJ  No  L 266, 28 . 9 . 1983, p. 1 .
225/67/EEC ; whereas the value of those quantities should        (4) OJ  No  L 209, 31 . 7. 1987,  p. 42.
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and 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer             (a) for those Member States whose currencies are main­
and no price can be used for such determination, the                      tained as between themselves within a. spread at any
method of calculation provided for in Article 37 of Regu­                 given moment of 2,25 %, the difference between :
lation (EEC) No 2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the                     — the conversion rate used under the common
abovementioned difference may be adjusted in accordance
with Article 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account                      agricultural policy, and
being taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ;                 — the conversion rate resulting from the central rate,
                                                                     (b) for the other Member States, the difference between :
                                                                          — the relationship between the conversion rate used
                                                                              under the common agricultural policy for the
Whereas the aid for colza, rape or sunflower seed                             currency of the Member State concerned and the
harvested or processed in Spain or Portugal is to be                          central rate of each of the currencies of the
advised as provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Member States referred to in (a), and
478 /86 (') ; whereas pursuant to Article 95 (2) and 293 (2)
of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal this aid is                 — the spot market rate for the currency of the
to be introduced at the beginning of the 1986/87 marke­                       Member State in question in relation to each of
ting year for seed harvested in these two Member States ;                     the currencies of the Member States referred to in
                                                                              (a), as recorded over a period to be determined ;
                                                                     Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 specifies the spot
                                                                      and forward exchange rates and the period to be used for
Whereas, in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                 calculating the differential amounts ; whereas in cases
475/86 (2) of 25 February 1986 laying down general rules             where, for one or more months, quotations of forward
for the mechanism for controlling the prices and the                  exchange rates are not available, the rates adopted for the
quantities of certain products in the oils and fats sector            previous months or the following months, as the case may
released for consumption in Spain provision is made for               be, must be used ;
the granting of compensatory aid, subject to certain
conditions ; whereas compensatory aid should be fixed for
sunflower seeds harvested in Spain ;                                  Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the
                                                                      market situation makes it necessary and in such a way as
                                                                      to ensure its being applied at least once a week ; whereas
                                                                      the subsidy may be altered whenever it becomes obvious
                                                                      that such alteration is necessary ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1920/87 (3),
provides for the granting of a special subsidy for                    Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the
sunflower seed harvested and processed in Portugal ;                  offers and quotations known to the Commission that,
whereas the amount of this subsidy should be fixed ;                  pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83
                                                                      the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the amount of the
                                                                      subsidy in each of the national currencies must be fixed
                                                                      in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation ;
                                                                      whereas, pursuant to the same Article, the spot and
                                                                      forward exchange rates for the ECU in national currencies
Whereas Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83                    determined in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation
 provides for the publication of the amount of the final              (EEC) No 1813/84 must also be published,
subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the
 national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting from
 the calculation referred to above plus or minus the diffe­
 rential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Commission Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1813/84 (4), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2138/87 0, defined the elements which deter­
 mine the differential amounts ; whereas these elements               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 are equal to the incidence on the target price less 7,5 %
 or the subsidy of the coefficient derived from the percen­
 tage referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1569/72 ; whereas, according to these provisions, this
 percentage represents :                                                                         Article 1
(') OJ   No  L 53, 1 . 3. 1986, p.  55.
0   OJ   No  L 53, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 47.
0   OJ   No  L 183, 3. 7. 1987.                                        1 . The amounts of the subsidy and the exchange rates
(4) OJ   No  L 170, 29. 6. 1984,   p. 41 .                            referred to in Article 33 (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC)
0   OJ   No  L 200, 21 . 7. 1987,  p. 9 .                             No 2681 /83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
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2. The amount of the compensatory aid referred to in          replaced with effect from 1 August 1987 to take account,
Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 475/86 shall be as          where appropriate, of the consequences of the effect of
shown in Annex III to this Regulation for sunflower seed      the change in the standard quality for sunflower seed.
harvested in Spain.
3 . The amount of the special subsidy provided for by
Regulation (EEC) 1920/87 for sunflower seed harvested
and processed in Portugal is fixed in Annex III.                                      Article 2
4. However, the amount of the subsidy for the 1987/88
marketing year for sunflower seed will be confirmed or        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1987.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 31 July 1987.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                           Vice-President
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                                                               ANNEX I
                                          Aids to colza and rape seed other than 'double zero'
                                                                                                        (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                 Current      1st period   2nd period    3rd period  4th period      5th period
                                                    8              9            10           11          12               1
1 . Gross aids (ECU) :
    — Spain                                          0,000          0,000        0,000         0,000      0,000            0,000
    — Portugal                                       0,000          0,000        0,000         0,000      0,000            0,000
    — Other Member States                           25,857        25,525        25,042       25,008      25,405          25,597
2. Final aids :
    (a) Seed harvested and processed in :
        — Federal Republic of Germany
           (DM)                                     62,46         61,69         60,58        60,61       61,56           62,29
        — Netherlands (Fl)                          69,56         68,68         67,41        67,42       68,48           69,25
        — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                       1 237,36      1 224,24      1 200,91     1 198,66    1 217,75        1 222,95
        — France (FF)                              188,93        186,33        182,33       181,52      184,48          186,42
        — Denmark (Dkr)                            224,34        221,38        217,06       216,69      220,17          220,33
        — Ireland (£ Irl)                           21,003        20,713        20,288       20,216      20,546          20,629
        — United Kingdom (£)                        15,433         15,172       14,791       14,712      14,972          14,966
        — Italy (Lit)                           40 116        39 550       38 625        38 634      39 268          39 345
        — Greece (Dr)                            2 764,05      2 686,06      2 576,16     2 536,99    2 587,94        2 542,55
    (b) Seed harvested    in   Spain   and
        processed :
        — in Spain (Pta)                              0,00           0,00        0,00          0,00       0,00              0,00
        — in another Member State (Pta)          3 859,64      3 805,93      3 705,51     3 686,22    3 747,44        3 729,48
    (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and
        processed :
        — in Portugal (Esc)                           0,00           0,00        0,00          0,00       0,00              0,00
        — in another Member State (Esc)          5 082,89      5 017,69      4 899,37     4 877,65    4 945,83        4 936,49
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                                                              ANNEX II
                                              Aids to colza and rape seed 'double zero'
                                                                                                       (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                Current      1st period   2nd period    3rd period  4th period      5th period
                                                   8              9           10            11          12               1
1 . Gross aids (ECU) :
    — Spain                                         2,500          2,500       2,500         2,500       2,500            2,500
    — Portugal                                      2,500          2,500       2,500         2,500       2,500            2,500
    — Other Member States                         28,357         28,025       27,542        27,508      27,905          28,097
2. Final aids :
    (a) Seed harvested and processed in :
        — Federal Republic of Germany
           (DM)                                   68,42          67,66        66,55         66,58       67,52           68,25
        — Netherlands (Fl)                        76,24          75,37        74,09         74,10       75,16           75,94
        — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                     1 357,53       1 344,40     1 321,08      1 318,83    1 337,91        1 343,12
        — France (FF)                            207,62         205,02       201,02        200,21      203,17          205,1 1
        — Denmark (Dkr)                          246,23         243,26       238,95        238,58      242,05          242,22
        — Ireland (£ Irl)                          23,081        22,791       22,367        22,294      22,624          22,708
        — United Kingdom (£)                       17,074        16,812       16,431        16,352      16,613          16,607
        — Italy (Lit)                         44 108        43 543        42 618        42 626      43 260          43 337
        — Greece (Dr)                          3 084,90       3 006,91     2 897,01      2 857,84    2 908,79        2 863,40
    (b) Seed harvested    in   Spain   and
        processed :
        — in Spain (Pta)                         385,53         385,53       385,53        385,53      385,53          385,53
        — in another Member State (Pta)        4 245,17       4 191,46     4 091,04      4 071,75 .  4 132,98        4 115,01
    (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and
        processed :
        — in Portugal (Esc)                      429,31         429,31       429,31        429,31      429,31          429,31
        — in another Member State (Esc)        5 512,21       5 447,00     5 328,97      5 306,97    5 375,14        5 365,81
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                                                                          ANNEX III
                                                                  Aids to sunflower seed
                                                                                                                                    (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                          Current            1st period (')        2nd period (')     3rd period (')           4th period (')
                                                            8                      9                     10                   11                     12
1 . Gross aids (ECU) :
    — Spain                                                  3,440                  3,440                 3,440                3,440                  3,440
    — Portugal                                               0,000                  0,000                 0,000                0,000                  0,000
    — Other Member States                                   34,741                34,741                34,741               35,412                  35,885
2. Final aids :                                                                                1
    (a) Seed harvested and processed in (2) :
         — Federal Republic of Germany
            (DM)                                            83,80                 83,80                  83,81                85,49                  86,61
         — Netherlands (Fl)                                 93,58                 93,39                  93,39               95,27                   96,53
         — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                              1 666,79              1 663,33              1 666,79            1 698,54                1 721,27
         — France (FF)                                     254,52                254,52                254,29               258,97                 262,51
         — Denmark (Dkr)                                   301,73                301,73                301,73               307,64                 311,78
         — Ireland (£ Irl)                                  28,294                28,294                 28,292               28,831                 29,224
         — United Kingdom (£)                               20,971                20,971                 20,971               21,437                 21,747
         — Italy (Lit)                                 54 079                 54 078                53 961             55 171                   55 926
         — Greece (Dr)                                   3 798,64              3 776,02              3 749,23            3 832,03                3 892,74
    (b) Seed harvested in Spain and
         processed :
         — in Spain (Pta)                                  530,49                530,49                530,49               530,49                  530,49
         — in another Member State (Pta)                 4 039,52              4 020,04              3 994,22            4 088,49                4 161,43
     (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and
         processed :
         — in Portugal (Esc)                                  0,00                   0,00                 0,00                  0,00                  0,00
         — in Spain (Esc)                                7 041,46              7 036,27              7 002,39            7 113,89                7 197,84
         — in another Member State (Esc)                 6 812,97              6 807,95              6 775,17            6 883,04                6 964,27
3. Compensatory aids :
     — in Spain (Pta)                                    3 983,01              3 963,53              3 936,79            4 031,06                4 104,00
4. Special aid :
     — in Portugal (Esc)                                 6 812,97              6 807,95              6 775,17            6 883,04                6 964,27
(') Subject to the effect of the new standard quality on the coefficients of equivalence.
P) For seed harvested in the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 and processed in Spain, the amounts shown in 2 (a) to be multiplied by 1,0335380.
                                                                          ANNEX IV
                          Exchange rate of the ECU to be used for converting final aids into the currency of the
                          processing country when the latter is a country other than the country of production
                                                                                                                                               (value of 1 ECU)
                                              Current             1st period          2nd period          3rd period        4th period            5th period
                                                  8                    9                    10                 11                 12                    1
DM                                             2,076280              2,071620             2,066820           2,061790            2,061790            2,046690
Fl                                             2,338090              2,335500             2,332790           2,329840            2,329840            2,320020
Bfrs/Lfrs                                     43,040900            43,033500            43,023400           43,016700          43,016700            43,005900
FF                                             6,909450              6,916040             6,923290           6,932010            6,932010            6,960770
 Dkr                                           7,875070              7,892710             7,913260           7,936850            7,936850            8,024050
£ Irl                                          0,775003              0,776915             0,778499           0,780226            0,780226            0,786638
£                                              0,699026              0,700415             0,701882           0,703330            0,703330            0,707636
 Lit                                       1 502,43             1 507,19             1 512,11           1 517,11          1 517,11              1 531,65
 Dr                                          156,72300            158,93100            161,07700           163,23100         163,23100            169,31500
 Esc                                         162,21300            163,31100            164,44800           165,64400         165,64400            168,84400
Pta                                          142,13000            143,51100            144,70000           145,90300         145,90300            148,60800