CELEX: 31975D0112
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 30 January 1975 authorizing certain Member States to apply special intervention measures for common wheat

18 . 2. 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 44/ 19
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 30 January 1975
              authorizing certain Member States to apply special intervention measures for
                                                         common wheat
                                  (Only the French , Dutch and German texts are authentic)
                                                           (75/ 1 12/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         sion Decision of 8 August 1974, are inclined to
COMMUNITIES,                                                           extend the storage undertaking up to 28 February or
                                                                       31 March 1975, at the choice of the holder ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                   Whereas these undertakings must be made under
                                                                       similar conditions to those laid down for the previous
                                                                       undertakings ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­                Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
lation (EEC) No 85/75 (2), and in particular the second                are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                       ment Committee for Cereals,
paragraph of Article 8 and Article 24 thereof ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 174/
67/EEC (3) of 27 June 1967 on special intervention                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
measures for cereals, as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 445/68 (4), and in particular Article 1
thereof ;
                                                                                                Article 1
Whereas the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Repu­
                                                                       The Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the
blic of Germany, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg                         Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany and
and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, by their
communication which reached the Commission on
                                                                       the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are authorized to
                                                                       have their intervention agencies carry out special inter­
20, 22 and 23 January 1975, have requested an exten­                   vention measures for common wheat .
sion of the special intervention measures which those
Member States are authorized to carry out pursuant to
the Commission Decision of 8 August 1974 (5 ) autho­                   These operations shall involve the conclusion before
rizing certain Member States to apply special interven­                 15 February 1975 of contracts, between the interven­
tion measures for common wheat, as amended by the                      tion agency and holders of common wheat who
Commission Decision of 5 September 1 974 (6) ;                         concluded a storage undertaking in application of the
whereas these requests are justified by the fact that the               Commission Decision of 8 August 1974, in terms of
                                                                       which :
undertakings to store the quantities of common wheat
concerned by these special intervention measures
                                                                       (a) the holders shall undertake to keep in store all or
terminate on 31 January 1975 and that their release
into the market after that date carried the risk of
                                                                           part of the quantity of common wheat stored since
                                                                           the period 1 to 18 September 1974, until 28
accentuating the decline in prices and consequently of
                                                                            February or 31 March 1975 ;
obliging the intervention agencies to make large
purchases ;                                                            (b) the intervention agency shall grant to the holders
                                                                           of that quantity, at the end of the period laid down
Whereas in these conditions the said Member States                          in (a), a daily premium , intended to cover storage
should be authorized to have their intervention agen­                      and credit costs, fixed contractually at 0-0233 unit
cies enter into contracts with the holders of common                       of account per metric ton .
wheat who, having already made use of the special
 intervention measures provided for in the Commis­
                                                                                                Article 2
(') OJ  No  117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ  No  L 11 , 16 . 1 . 1975, p. 1 .                                Holders referred to in Article 1 who wish to enter into
(3) OJ  No  130, 28 . 6. 1967, p . 2609/ 67 .
(4) OJ  No  L 91 , 12. 4. 1968, p. 3 .                                  such an undertaking must make a written application,
(5) OJ  No  L 238 , 30 . 8 . 1974, p. 43 .                              amounting to a firm undertaking, to the intervention
M OJ No L 250, 13. 9. 1974, p. 36.                                      agency before 3 February 1975.
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                        Article 3                                                  Article 5
The intervention agency shall verify the existence of       The Member States concerned shall keep the Commis­
the claimants' stocks before signature of the contract      sion informed as to the development of the operations
and at the end of the period of storage. Moreover it        provided for in this Decision .
shall carry out all necessary control measures to                                  Article 6
confirm that the undertaking is respected.
                                                            This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
                        Article 4                           Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the
                                                            Federal Republic of Germany and the Grand Duchy
The Member States concerned may be authorized,              of Luxembourg.
according to the procedure laid down in Article 26 of
Regulation No 120/67/EEC, to terminate the under­           Done at Brussels, 30 January 1975.
taking provided for in Article 1 (a).
                                                                                     For the Commission
In this case the daily premium referred to in Article 1
(b) shall be granted up to the day fixed by the                                         P.J. LARDINOIS
Member State in question for termination of the
undertaking.                                                                     Member of the Commission