CELEX: 51990PC0670(02)
Language: en
Date: 1990-12-18
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) ON URGENT ACTION TO SUPPLY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS TO THE USSR, RUMANIA AND BULGARIA

No C 22/10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                 30. 1. 91
The representative of the Commission shall submit to the        committee of the manner in which its opinion has been
committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The              taken into account.
committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft, within a
time limit which the chairman may lay down according
to the urgency of the matter, if necessary by taking a
                                                                                          Article 6
vote.
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
The opinion shall be recorded in the minutes; in                following its publication in the Official Journal of the
addition, each Member State shall have the right to ask          European Communities.
to have its position recorded in the minutes.
The Commission shall take the utmost account of the             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
opinion delivered by the committee. It shall inform the         directly applicable in all Member States.
             Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on urgent action to supply agricultural products to
                             the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Romania and Bulgaria
                                                    COM(90) 670 final
                                   (Submitted by the Commission on 19 December 1990)
                                                       (91/C 22/10)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                     Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 and
235 thereof,                                                    The Community shall take urgent action to supply the
                                                                USSR, Romania and Bulgaria with agricultural products.
                                                                Expenditure on this scheme shall be limited to ECU(B)
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               350 million of the budget, namely ECU 250 million for
                                                                the USSR, ECU 100 million for Romania and for
                                                                 Bulgaria.
Having regard      to  the   opinion   of   the   European
Parliament,
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas agricultural products should be made available           For the purposes of this scheme:
to the USSR, Romania and Bulgaria to improve the food
supply to the population; whereas the Community has
                                                                 1. the Community shall transfer agricultural products
agricultural products in storage as a result of inter-
                                                                    available as a result of intervention free of charge to
vention measures and, in view of the situation on the
                                                                    the USSR, Romania and Bulgaria; in response to
market, priority should be given to supplying these
                                                                    specific requests, products may be mobilized on the
products; whereas, however, provision should be made
                                                                    Community market;
for mobilizing products on the Community market in
response to specific requests; whereas regularization of
the agricultural markets may also be achieved by                 2. supply costs shall be met by the Community and
supplying such products in processed form;                          suppliers shall be chosen by tendering procedure.
                                                                    Transport costs shall be borne by the Community
                                                                    unless the recipient country takes the products over in
Whereas the action proposed is essentially humanitarian             the Community. These costs may include processing
in its aim and should therefore also be based upon                  of products mobilized as provided for in paragraph 1;
Article 235 of the Treaty;
                                                                 3. as an exception, and for reasons arising only from the
Whereas it is for the Commission to set detailed rules for          urgency of the scheme, the Commission may choose
this scheme,                                                        the supplier by direct agreement;
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 4. no export refunds shall be granted or monetary                                          Article 5
    compensatory amounts applied in respect of the
    products supplied under this scheme.                           1.   The Commission          shall  be   responsible    for
                                                                  implementing this scheme.
                          Article 3                               2.    Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation
                                                                  shall be adopted using the procedure laid down in Article
 The accounting value of the products transferred to the          27 of Regulation (EEC) N o 2727/75 (3), as last amended
 USSR, Romania and Bulgaria shall be determined using             by Regulation (EEC) No 201/90 (*), or, as appropriate,
 the procedure laid down in Article 13 of Regulation              the corresponding article of other regulations on
 (EEC) No 729/70 ('), as last amended by Regulation               common organizations of the market.
 (EEC) No 2048/88 (2).
                                                                                            Article 6
                          Article 4
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
 Action taken under this Regulation shall count as inter-         following its publication in the Official Journal of the
 vention as specified in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No         European Communities.
 729/70. It shall be financed from the European Agri-
 cultural Guidance and Guarantee fund (EAGGF),                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
 (Guarantee Section) appropriations.                              directly applicable in all Member States.
O OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13.                                (») OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 1.                              O OJ No L 22, 27. 1. 1990, p. 7.