CELEX: 31994R2913
Language: en
Date: 1994-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2913/94 of 30 November 1994 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

1 . 12. 94                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 307/27
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2913/94
                                                       of 30 November 1994
                                           fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          and quotations recorded during the first 25 days of the
                                                                     month in question for quantities that can be delivered
                                                                     during the following calendar month are to be used ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               whereas the average world market price thus determined
 Community,                                                          is used to fix the aid rate applicable on the following
                                                                     month ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78
 of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the
 market in dried fodder ('), as last amended by Commis­              Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in the
 sion Regulation (EC) No 3496/93 (2), and in particular              case of offers and quotations not of the type referred to
Article 5 (3) thereof,                                               above ; whereas these adjustments were defined in Article
                                                                     3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30
                                                                     June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application
Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No          of the system of aid for dried fodder (8), as last amended
 1117/78, when the guide price is higher than the average            by Regulation (EEC) No 1069/93 (9) ;
world market price, aid is granted for dried fodder as
 described under Article 1 (b) and (c) of that Regulation
 and obtained from fodder plants harvested in the
 Community ; whereas that aid takes account of a                     Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation
percentage of the difference between these two prices ;              (EEC) No 1417/78, when no offer or quotation can be
                                                                     used to determine the average world market price, that
                                                                     price is determined on the basis of the sum of the value
Whereas the guide price in the dried fodder sector was               of competing products ; whereas those products are
fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1288/93 (3) and                 defined in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 ;
 Commission Regulation (EC) No 538/94 (4) ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2065/92 (% as                    Whereas, pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1288/93, sets the                     1417/78, when forward prices differ from that applying in
percentage referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)              the month when the application is lodged, the aid rate is
No 1117/78 for the 1994/95 marketing year at 70% ;                   adjusted by a correcting amount calculated from the trend
                                                                     of forward prices ;
Whereas the average world market price is determined for
a bulk pelleted product, delivered to Rotterdam, of the
standard quality for which the guide price has been fixed ;          Whereas, where the average world market price is deter­
                                                                     mined in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     No 1417/78, the corrective amount must be equal to the
Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     difference between the average world market price and
 1417/78 of 19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried                 the average forward world market price determined by
fodder (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regula­
 11 10/89 0, the average world market price for the                  tion (EEC) No 1528/78 and valid for delivery during a
products described in the first and third indents of Article         month other than that in which the aid is introduced,
 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 is to be determined            adjusted by the percentage fixed pursuant to Article 5 (2)
on the basis of the most favourable actual purchase possi­           of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 ; whereas where the
bilities excepting those which cannot be considered                  average forward world market price for one or more
representative of the real market trend ; whereas offers             months cannot be determined by applying the criteria
                                                                     laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
(')  OJ No  L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1 .
                                                                     1528/78, the corrective amount must be fixed for the
(2)  OJ No  L 319, 21 . 12. 1993, p. 17.                             month or months in question at a level such that the aid
(3)  OJ No  L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 1 .                               is equal to zero ;
(4)  OJ No  L 68, 11 . 3. 1994, p. 20.
0    OJ No  L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 48 .
(6)  OJ No  L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 1 .                             (8) OJ No L 179, 1 . 7. 1978, p. 10.
0    OJ No  L 118 , 29. 4. 1989, p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 114.
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Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article         under the current arrangements for the period 1 April to
 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 ('), as                  31 October 1995 should be fixed at zero ;
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (2), are used to
convert amounts expressed in third country currencies              Whereas, as the result of the applications of all these
and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural         provisions to the offers and quotations which the
conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;                Commission has recorded, the rate of the additional aid
whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­           for dried fodder must be fixed as indicated in the table
tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­             annexed to this Regulation,
lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (3), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 547/94 (4);
Whereas the rate of the additional aid must be fixed once
per month so as to ensure application of the aid from the          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
first day of the month following the date of its fixing ;
Whereas, when adopting the Decision on the reform of
the common agricultural policy in 1992, the Council                                         Article 1
announced its intention of introducing new aid arrange­
ments for the production of dried fodder based on aid
fixed per tonne ; whereas, during the negotiations on the          The rate of the aid referred to in Article 5 (3) of Regula­
agricultural prices for the 1994/95 marketing year, this           tion (EEC) No 1117/78 is fixed in the Annex to this
was confirmed and a proposal for a Regulation has been             Regulation.
submitted to the Council providing for the establishment
of a new organization of the market in the sector in ques­
tion to take effect from 1 April 1995 based on fixed-rate                                   Article 2
aid per tonne for specified maximum quantities ;
Whereas, given that the new arrangements referred to               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
above are due to apply from 1 April 1995, the aid paid             1994.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 November 1994.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               Rene STEICHEN
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(») OJ  No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L  320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
0   OJ  No  L  108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4) OJ  No  L  69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 30 November 1994 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
           Aid applicable from 1 December 1994 to dried fodder :
                                                                                                      (ECU/tonne)
                                               Fodder dehydrated by artificial heat
                                                             drying                 Fodder otherwise dried
                                                      Protein concentrates
           December 1994                                     64,140                        39,460
           Aid in case of advance fixing for the month of :
                                                                                                      (ECU/tonne)
           January 1995                                      63,274                        38,594
           February 1995                                     62,938                        38,258
           March 1995                                        62,869                        38,189
           April 1995                                         0,000                         0,000
           May 1995                                           0,000                         0,000
           June 1995                                          0,000                         0,000
           July 1995                                          0,000                         0,000
           August 1995                                        0,000                         0,000
           September 1995                                     0,000                         0,000
           October 1995                                       0,000                         0,000