CELEX: 31986R2021
Language: en
Date: 1986-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2021/86 of 30 June 1986 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

No L 173 /28                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 7 . 86
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2021 /86
                                                         of 30 June 1986
                                        fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         1986/87 marketing year have been fixed in Regulations
                                                                    (EEC) No 1457/86 0, and (EEC) No 1458/86 (8) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas estimated production of colza, rape and
                                                                    sunflower seed for the 1986/87 marketing year has not
                                                                    been fixed ; whereas the amount, where appropriate, to be
                                                                    deducted from the subsidy in compliance with the system
                                                                    of maximum guaranteed quantities referred to in Article
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  27a of Regulation No 136/66/EEC could therefore not be
Portugal,                                                           determined ; whereas the Council fixed by Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 1457/86 the target price for sunflower seed for
                                                                    the 1986/87 marketing year on the basis of an oil content
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of                of 44 % for which the coefficient of equivalence with
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common                  seed of other qualities has not been fixed ; whereas the
organization of the market in oils and fats (') as last             amounts of the subsidy should therefore only be applied
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1454/86 (2) and in                   on a temporary basis and should be confirmed or replaced
particular Article 27 (4) thereof,                                  once the effects of the system of maximum guaranteed
                                                                    quantities for colza, rape and sunflower seed and the
                                                                    coefficient of equivalence of sunflower seed are known ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1 678/85 (3) fixing the conversion rates to be applied in
agriculture, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1333/86 (4),                                                        Whereas Article 29 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
                                                                    provides that the world market price, calculated for a
                                                                    Community frontier crossing point, is to be determined
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72                on the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportuni­
of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures for colza,             ties, quotations being adjusted where necessary to take
rape and sunflower seed (*), as last amended by Regulation          account of quotations for competing products ;
(EEC) No 1474/84 (6), and in particular Article 2 (3)
thereof,
                                                                    Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/67/EEC
                                                                    of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for determining
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             world market prices for oil seeds and fixing the frontier
                                                                    crossing point (9), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     No 1 983/82 (l0), fixed the said crossing point at
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                      Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that Regulation provides
provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of oil         that when the world market price is being determined
seeds harvested and processed within the Community                  account should be taken of all offers on the world market
when the target price for a species of seed is higher than           known to the Commission and of quotations on those
the price on the world market ; whereas these provisions            exchanges which are significant for international trade ;
at present apply only in respect of colza, rape and                 whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 225/
sunflower seeds ;                                                    67/EEC of 28 June 1967 on detailed rules for determi­
                                                                     ning the world market price for oil seeds ("), as last
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1844/86 (l2), provides
Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically, be           that offers and quotations which do not relate to ship­
equal to the difference between those two prices ;                   ments to be effected within 30 days following the date on
                                                                     which the world market price is determined should be
                                                                     disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations which the
Whereas the target price and the monthly increments in               Commission believes, in view of general price movements
 the target price of colza, rape and sunflower seed for the          or information available to it, not to be representative of
(') OJ  No  172, 30. 9 . 1966, p. 3025/86.                           O OJ No L 133, 21 . 5 . 1986, p. 12.
(2) OJ  No  L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 8 .                              0 OJ No L 133 , 21 . 5 . 1986, p . 14.
(3) OJ  No  L 132, 21 . 5. 1983, p. 33.                              0 OJ No    111 , 10 . 6. 1967, p. 2196/67.
(<) OJ  No  L 119, 8 . 5. 1986, p. 1 .                               H OJ No     L 215, 23 .  7. 1982, p. 6.
O   OJ  No  L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9.                                (") OJ No   136, 30 . 6.  1967, p. 2919/67.
f6) OJ  No  L 143, 30. 5. 1984, p. 4.                                 12 OJ No   L 159 , 14.  6. 1986, p . 16 .
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the real trend of the market must also be disregarded ;          be determined in accordance with Article 6 of that
whereas offers and quotations relating to quantities of less     Regulation ;
than 500 tonnes and offers relating to seed of a quality
other than that normally acceptable on the world market
must also be disregarded ;
                                                                 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides
                                                                 that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis
                                                                 for determining the world market price and where it is,
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides           moreover, impossible to establish the value of the oil or
that of the offers and quotations taken into consideration,      oil cake processed from such seed, the world market price
those for delivery c and f should be increased by 0,2 % ;        should be determined on the basis of the most recent
whereas offers and quotations for delivery fas, fob or           known value for oil or oil cake, adjusted to take account
otherwise should be increased, as appropriate, by loading,       of the trend of world prices for competing products by
transport and insurance costs from the point of shipment         applying to that value the rules set out in Article 2 of
or loading to the frontier crossing point ; whereas cif          Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regula­
offers and quotations for frontier crossing points other         tion No 225/67/EEC defines competing products as those
than Rotterdam should be adjusted to allow for the diffe­        oils or oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have
rence in transport and insurance costs as compared with a        been offered in the largest quantities on the world market
product delivered cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commis­            during the period under consideration ;
sion should take account only of the loading, transport
and insurance costs which to its knowledge are the
lowest ; whereas, finally, offers and quotations for delivery
cif Rotterdam should be increased by 0,242 ECU ;                 Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 1 1 5/67/EEC,
                                                                 the price determined for colza, rape and sunflower seeds
                                                                 must also be adjusted by an amount not exceeding the
                                                                 margin, as calculated in accordance with that Article,
Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides           where that margin may affect the normal disposal of seeds
that the world market price should be determined for             harvested in the Community ;
seed of the standard quality for which the target price has
been fixed, delivered in bulk ;
                                                                 Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for the
                                                                 purpose of determining that margin are defined in Article
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides           8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment
that offers and quotations relating to products presented        should be made where the margin is found to be less than
otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted by deducting           0,604 ECU ;
the additional value resulting from that presentation ;
whereas offers and quotations relating to a quality other
than the standard quality for which the target price was
fixed should be adjusted on the basis of the coefficients of     Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14
equivalence shown in the Annex to that Regulation ;              June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down rules
whereas, in the case of offers on the world market for           for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; -whereas, under that
qualities of colza and rape seed other than those listed in      Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted is fixed in
that Annex, coefficients of equivalence derived from those       advance, the amount of such subsidy must be equal to the
listed in that Annex may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regula­       amount applicable on the day on which the application
tion No 225/67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived           for advance fixing was lodged, adjusted by the difference
coefficients are being calculated, account must be taken of      between the target price valid on that day and the target
the differences between prices for the qualities of seed in      price valid on the day on which the seeds are placed
question and prices for the qualities listed in that Annex,      under control at an oil or feed mill and, where appro­
and of the characteristics of these various seeds :              priate, a corrective amount ; whereas Article 35 of
                                                                 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21
                                                                 September 1983 laying down detailed rules for the appli­
                                                                 cation of the subsidy system for oil seeds (2), as last
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides           amended by Regulation (EEC) No 869/86 (3), provides
that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis         that such adjustment should involve increasing or redu­
for determining the world market price, that price should        cing the amount of subsidy applicable on the day on
be determined on the basis of the value of the average           which the application was lodged by the corrective
quantities of oil and oil cake resulting from the proces­        amount and the difference between the target prices
sing of 100 kilograms of seed within the Community less          mentioned in Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No
an amount corresponding to the cost of processing these          2681 / 83 ;
seeds into oil and oil cake ; whereas the quantities and
costs to be taken into consideration for the purposes of         (') OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44.
the calculation are fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No          (2) OJ No L 266, 28 . 9 . 1983 , p. 1 .
225/67/EEC ; whereas the value of those quantities should         3) OJ No L 81 , 26. 3 . 1986, p. 10 .
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Whereas Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83                      — the conversion rate resulting from the central rate,
provides that the corrective amount must be equal to the
difference between the world market price for colza, rape           (b) for Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece, the
and sunflower seeds and the forward price for those seeds               difference between :
valid for a shipment effected during the month in which
                                                                        — the relationship between the conversion rate used
the seeds were placed under control at an oil mill, those
prices being determined in accordance with Articles 1 , 4                   under the common agricultural policy for the
                                                                            currency of the Member State concerned and the
and 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer                    central rate of each of the currencies of the
and no price can be used for such determination, the                        Member States referred to in (a), and
method of calculation provided for in Article 37 of Regu­
lation (EEC) No 2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the                   — the spot market rate for the currency of the
abovementioned difference may be adjusted in accordance                     Member State in question in relation to each of
with Article 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account                    the currencies of the Member States referred to in
being taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ;                   (a), as recorded over a period to be determined ;
                                                                    Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 1569/72, the monetary disparity for the marke­
Whereas the aid for colza, rape or sunflower seed                   ting years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated by a
harvested or processed in Spain or Portugal is to be                method which takes into account a coefficient applied to
advised as provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No              the conversion rate resulting from the central rate ;
478/86 (') ; whereas pursuant to Article 95 (2) and 293 (2)         whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2679/85 (3) fixed the coeffi­
of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal this aid is           cient ;
to be introduced at the beginning of the 1986/87 marke­
ting year for seed harvested in these two Member States ;
                                                                    Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 specifies the spot
                                                                    and forward exchange rates and the period to be used for
                                                                    calculating the differential amounts ; whereas in cases
Whereas, in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No               where, for one or more months, quotations of forward
4 75/86 (2) and Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No           exchange rates are not available, the rates adopted for the
476/86 (3) of 25 February 1986 laying down general rules            previous months or the following months, as the case may
for the mechanism for controlling the prices and the                be, must be used ;
quantities of certain products in the oils and fats sector
released for consumption in Spain and Portugal respecti­            Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the
vely, provision is made for the granting of compensatory            market situation makes it necessary and in such a way as
aid, subject to certain conditions ; whereas compensatory           to ensure its being applied at least once a week ; whereas
aid should be fixed for sunflower seeds harvested in Spain          the subsidy may be altered whenever it becomes obvious
and Portugal ;                                                      that such alteration is necessary ;
                                                                    Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the
Whereas Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83                  offers and quotations known to the Commission that,
provides for the publication of the amount of the final             pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83
subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the               the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the amount of the
national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting from             subsidy in each of the national currencies must be fixed
the calculation referred to above plus or minus the diffe­          in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation ;
rential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)              whereas, pursuant to the same Article, the spot and
No 1813/84 (2) defined the elements which determine the             forward exchange rates for the ECU in national currencies
differential amounts ; whereas these elements are equal to          determined in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation
the incidence on the target price or the subsidy of the             (EEC) No 1813/84 must also be published,
coefficient derived from the percentage referred to in
Article 2 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 ; whereas,
according to these provisions, this percentage represents :
                                                                  - HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
(a) for those Member States whose currencies are main­
     tained as between themselves within a spread at any
     given moment of 2,25 %, the difference between :
                                                                                               Article 1
     — the conversion rate used under the common
         agricultural policy, and                                    1 . The amounts of the subsidy and the exchange rates
                                                                    referred to in Article 33 (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC)
(■) OJ  No  L  53, 1 . 3.   1986.                                    No 2681 / 83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
(2) OJ  No  L  S3, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 47.
(3) OJ  No  L  53, 1 . 3 .  1986, p. 51 .
 4) OJ  No  L  170, 29 .   6. 1984, p. 41                           0 OJ No L 254, 25. 9. 1985, p. 14.
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2. The amount of the compensatory aid referred to in           from 1 July 1986 to take into account where appropriate,
Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 475/86 and Article 12        the effects of the application of the system of maximum
of Regulation (EEC) No 476/86 shall be as shown in             guaranteed quantities for colza, rape and sunflower seed.
Annex II to this Regulation for sunflower seed harvested
in Spain and Portugal.
3. The amount of the subsidy in the case of advance
fixing for July, August, September, October, November
and December 1986 for colza and rape seed and for                                       Article 2
August, September, October and November 1986 for
sunflower seed will however be confirmed or replaced as        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1986.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 30 June 1986.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President
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                                                                 ANNEX I
                                                       Aids to colza and rape seed
                                                                                                             (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                Current
                                                month
                                                              2nd month (') 3rd month (') 4th month (') 5th month (')    6th month (')
1 . Gross aids (ECU)
    — Spain                                         0,610           0,610          0,610         0,610         0,610            0,610
    — Portugal                                      0,000           0,000          0,000         0,000         0,000            0,000
    — Other Member States                          26,863          26,863         27,763        29,009        29,505           30,001
2 . Final aids
    (a) Seed harvested and processed in :
        — Federal Republic of Germany                       l
            (DM)                                   65,40           65,40          67,54         70,57         71,75            73,29
        — Netherlands (Fl)                         73,69           73,69          76,08         79,49         80,83            82,51
        — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                     1 250,1 1        1 250,11      1 292,48       1 350,50     1 373,75          1 391,56
        — France (FF)                            182,00           182,00         188,28        196,94        200,46           204,76
        — Denmark (Dkr)                          228,63           228,63         236,33        247,00        251,24           255,09
        — Ireland (£ Irl)                        - 20,225          20,225         20,912        21,837        22,215           22,537
        — United Kingdom (£)                       15,536          15,536         16,127        16,958        17,269           17,455
        — Italy (Lit)                         40 148           40 145        41 399        43 225        43 989           44 584
        — Greece (Dr)                          2 548,48         2 548,48      2 674,39      2 742,29      2 800,16         2 784,70
    (b) Seed harvested in      Spain   and
        processed :
        — in Spain (Pta)                           88,94           88,94          88,94         88,94         88,94            88,94
        — in a Member State listed at (a)
            (Pta)                              3 043,09         3 043,09      3 139,44       3 325,16      3 364,36         3 436,67
    (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and
        processed :
        — in Portugal (Esc)                         0,00            0,00           0,00          0,00          0,00              0,00
        — in a Member State listed at (a)
             (Esc)                              3 941,30         3 929,66      4 022,27      4 218,97      4 226,36         4 301,66
(') Subject to the amount to be deducted in compliance with the system of maximum guaranteed quantities.
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                                                                         ANNEX II
                                                                   Aids to sunflower seed
                                                                                                                              (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                         Current
                                                                             2nd month          3rd month (')     4th month (')          5th month (')
                                                           month
 1 . Gross aids (ECU)
      — Spain                                               —
                                                                                   1,720               1,720              1,720                 1,720
      — Portugal                                         .  —                      0,000               0,000              0,000                 0,000
     — Other Member States                                  40,717               37,027              37,027             37,637                 37,921
 2. Final aids                                                                                                   l
     (a) Seed harvested and processed in (2) :
         — Federal Republic of Germany
             (DM)                                           98,50                89,69               89,71              91,29                 91,99
         — Netherlands (Fl)                                110,98               101,06              101,06             102,84                103,63
         — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                             1 871,07              1 726,16            1 726,16          1 753,95               1 767,1 1
         — France (FF)                                     273,99               253,82              253,50             257,26                259,12
         — Denmark (Dkr)                                   339,25               315,40              315,40             320,61                323,02
         — Ireland (£ Irl)                                  30,085               27,953              27,950             28,380                28,592
         — United Kingdom (£)                               23,661               21,857              21,857    i        22,240                22,398
         — Italy (Lit)                                57 942                 55 740             55 575             56 356                56 770
         — Greece (Dr)                                 3 267,04               3 711,09            3 649,30          3 682,22               3 704,63
     (b) Seed harvested in Spain and              I                                                              \
         processed :
         — in Spain (Pta)                                   —
                                                                                250,77              250,77             250,77                250,77
         — in a Member State listed at (a)                                                   ll
            (Pta)                                           —
                                                                              3 064,28            3 025,75          3 114,79               3 200,96
     (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and
         processed :                                                    l
         — in Portugal (Esc)                                —
                                                                                  0,00                 0,00               0,00                  0,00
         — in Spain (Esc)                                   —
                                                                              5 670,52            5 618,67          5 714,92               5 804,64
         — in a Member State listed at (a)
            (Esc)                                           —
                                                                              5 466,78            5 416,79          5 509,58               5 599,30
3. Compensatory aids :
     — in Spain (Pta)                                       —
                                                                              2 881,74            2 843,21          2 927,09               3 013,26
     — in Portugal (Esc)                                    —
                                                                              5 426,47            5 376,48          5 468,13               5 557,85
(') Subject to the amount to be deducted in compliance with the system of maximum guaranteed quantities.
(2) For seed harvested in the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 and processed in Spain, the amounts shown in 2 (a) to be multi­
     plied by 1,037269.
                                                                        ANNEX III
                        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
                                                                 2nd month          3rd month         4th month        5th month           6th month
                                               month
DM                                             2,148580             2,143760           2,138990          2,134640         2,134640            2,122560
Fl                                             2,419380             2,417220           2,414950          2,412570         2,412570            2,403470
Bfrs/Lfrs                                    43,913400             43,909700          43,910000         43,909600       43,909600           43,918100
FF                                             6,854580             6,854870           6,855780          6,856490         6,856490            6,858950
Dkr                                            7,973370             7,977660           7,984310          7,991720         7,991720            8,020940
£ Irl                                          0,709057             0,710272           0,711594          0,712804         0,712804            0,716080
£                                              0,638250             0,639682           0,641135          0,642262         0,642262            0,645969
Lit                                      1 474,28              1 480,47           1 486,03          1 491,62         1 491,62            1 507,06
Dr                                          135,47710             137,17770         139,02910         141,26470        141,26470           147,26030
Pta                                         137,51650             138,68870         139,34010         139,99210        139,99210           141,69030
Esc                                         145,41470             147,25720         148,72320         150,14170        150,14170           154,88710