CELEX: 51973PC0259
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-19
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL on production subsidies which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in respect of certain agricultural products (Submitted by the Council to the Commission)

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                                           COM(73)259 final
                                           Brussels , 19 February 1973
                               Proposal for a
                     REGULATION ( ESC ) OF THE COUNCIL
       on production subsidies which the United Kingdom is autho­
       rized to retain in respect of certain agricultural products
              ( Submitted by the Council to the Commission)
   COM(73)259 final
 ---pagebreak---                                    Propos-1 for a
                        REGULATION ( EEC ) . OF THE COUNCIL
             on production subsidies which the United Kingdom is authorized
                  to retain in respect of oertain agricultural products
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty^        concerning the accession of new member States
to the European Economic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Commu­
nity , signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 , and in particular Article 54 ( 4)
            (2)
of the Act      annexed thereto ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ;
Whereas Article 54 of "the Act provides that during the transition period
the United Kingdom is to retain production subsidies for such time as there
is a difference between prices obtain-ed under the national system of guaran­
teed prices and market prices resulting from the application - of the mechanisms
of the common agricultural policy and the provisions of Title II of the Aot ;
whereas these subsidies should not have the effect of raising the returns of
producers above the level which would have resulted from the application to
these returns of the rules for the alignment of prices ;
Whereas the - implementation of those provisions requires that the different
elements of the system , in particular the prices obtained , the returns , and
the level which the returns., should ultimately attain , should be defined ; .
                                           as/
whereas that level should be so fixed to ensure that the guaranteed prices
compare with Community prices ;
( 1 ) OJ N° L 73 , 27 March 1972 , p. 5
( 2 ) OJ N° L 73 » 27 ïîarch 1972 , p. 14
                                                                       ./■
 ---pagebreak--- Iliereas the guaranteed, price system for milk includes a procedure for making
financial adjustments as between regions in order to equate the differences
arising from the relative importance attached to milk for consumption and to
milk for processing ; whereas special provisions are therefore required for
milk ;
Whereas it has furthermore become apparent that , in the case of certain
products , special provisions correlating prices obtained in the United
Kingdom and in the Community must be laid down in order to present distorsions
 of competition ;
Whereas the guaranteed price of certain products will in the more or less
near future reach Community level ; whereas , consequently , subsidies should
then be withheld ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :        '    "          "        '  ' '
                                       Article 1
This regulation lays - down rules for the application of article 54'C-f, the Act .
It . shall apply to wheat , barley , oats , rye , sugar beet , pig carcases ,, beef and
veal - eggs and milk .
                                       Article 2
1 . As regards the produots listed in Article 1 , excepting milk , the prices
     obtained under the system of guaranteed prices referred to in Article
     54 ( l ) of the Act are the guaranteed prices fixed in respect of the
     marketing year in question under the system laid down in the United Kingdom
     Agricultural Acts , of 1947 and 1957 •
2 . The production subsidies referred in that Article are those granted under
     that system .
                                       Article 3
1 . As regards the products listed in Article 1 , excepting milk , the returns
     referred to in Article 54 ( 3 ) of the Act are those which result from the ' ■
     application of the guaranteed prices operative on the date of entry into
     force of this Regulation ,
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2 . For the purposes of applying Article 54 ( 3 )> "the prices obtained under
     the system of guaranteed prices defined in Article 2 of this Regulation
     shall be aligned :
     a) in the case of wheat , "barley and rye : on the common intervention price
         applying at Duisburg which is applicable in January of each year , less
         an amount to be determined , account      being taken both of regional
         differentiation of intervention prices in the United Kingdom and of
         the difference between the wholesale and the producer price - ( herein­
         after referred to       as "adjusted intervention price"). For the'
         remainder of the 1972/73 marketing year and for the 1973/74 marketing
         year , this amount is fixed at 6 units of account per metric ton ;
     b ) in the case of oats : 6ri the adjusted intervention price for barley
         defined in ( a) multiplied by a coefficient equal to one-hundredth of
         the percentage ratio of the threshold price for oats to the threshold
         price for parley in respect of the marketing year in question ;
     c ) in the case of pig carcases : on the common basic price *
   • d ) in the c~se of beef end ve^l : on the guide price for fdult bovine - nim~ls
         plus 3,41 u. 3 • per 100 kg liveweigiit .
                                    Article 4
The methods used , under the system of guaranteed prices , to ascertain or
calculate the average prices obtained by producers on markets shall not be
altered in any way which would bring the calculated prices down to a level
lower than that resulting from- the application of the methods used before
1 February 1973 . ' "                               v                   ■ '
                                     Article 5                        r       . ..
1 . Article 54 shall apply to the procedure , used under the guaranteed price
     system for milk , for making financial adjustments as between certain
     regions .
2 . The guaranteed milk price may be' rais'ed Crnly to the extent of the reduction ,
     resulting from price alignment , in the difference referred to in the
     following subparagraph . However the United Kingdom producer price for milk
     shall not exceed the target price for milk for the marketing year in
     question .
                                                                            ./.
 ---pagebreak---                                       - 4 -
 The difference referred, to in the preceding subparagraph is the difference
 between the levels of milk support resulting from the intervention prices
 applicable in the United Kingdom and from the intervention prices applicable
 in the Community .
                                    Article 6
 1 . The system of guaranteed prices shall cease to .apply after :
      - 30 June 1973 in the case of sugar beet ,
      - 31 March 1974 in the case of eggs .
2 . The guaranteed price for eggs sh->.ll be so fixed ».s to avaid disrupting the
     propo functioning of the common agricultural policy , and in particular the
     common organisation of the market in eggs .
                                   Article 6
The system of guaranteed prices shall be retained only for so long as :
 a) in the case of wheat, barley and rye : the intervention price applicable
      in the United Kingdom ,
b ) in the case of oats : the intervention price for barley applicable in the
     United Kingdom , multiplied by the coefficient referred to in Article 3
      (2) (b),                                                         ^
c ) in the case of pig carcases : the common basic price , less the . compensatory
      amount ,
d ) in the case of beef *nd ve~l : the guide price for adult bovine snim-ls
      "pplicable in the United Kingdom, plus 3*41 u.     per 100 kg liveweight
is less than the relevant guaranteed price .
                                   Article u
The United Kingdom shall each year notify the Commission within a
reasonable time of the guaranteed priced which it proposes to fix .
                                   Article 9
Rules for the implementation of this Regulation may be adopted in accordance
with the procedure laid down in Article 25 of Regulation N° 120/57/EEC or
 in the corresponding Articles of the other relevant Regulations on the
common organisation of agricultural markets , whichever may be appropriate .
                                                                     /•
 ---pagebreak---                                  Article 10
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Communities ,
It shall apply until 31 December 1977 at the latest .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Ilember States .
Done at Brussels ,                                 For the Council
                                                      The President