CELEX: 31986R1584
Language: en
Date: 1986-05-23 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1584/86 of 23 May 1986 fixing the prices applicable to cereals for the 1986/87 marketing year

24. 5 . 86                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 139 /41
                                       COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1584/86
                                                         of 23 May 1986
                         fixing the prices applicable to cereals for the 1986/87 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                 Whereas, as part of a quality policy, production of
                                                                          common wheat of higher breadmaking quality and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     production of rye of breadmaking quality should be
 Economic Community , and in particular Article 43                        supported ; whereas accordingly a special premium
                                                                          should be fixed for each of these cereals ;
thereof,
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
                                                                          Whereas , in the case of durum wheat, application of a
 Portugal , and in particular Article 89 ( 1 ) thereof,                   more satisfactory price relationship with common
                                                                          wheat leads to a reduction in its intervention price ;
                                                                          whereas , however, in order to improve that cereal 's
 Having      regard       to     Council       Regulation     ( EEC )     fluidity on the Community market, the level of the
 No 2727 / 75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organ­
ization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
                                                                          target price should remain unchanged ;
 Regulation ( EEC ) No 1 579/ 86 (2 ), and in particular
 Article 3 ( 5 ) thereof,                                                 Whereas application of Article 68 of the Act of Acces­
                                                                          sion of Spain and Portugal has meant that prices in
                                                                          Spain differ from the common prices ; whereas , pur­
 Having       regard       to     the       proposal    from      the
                                                                          suant to Article 70 ( 1 ) of the Act of Accession , Spanish
 Commission (3 ),
                                                                          prices should be aligned with common prices each year
                                                                          at the start of the marketing year ; whereas as a result of
 Having regard to the opinion of the European                             applying the criteria for this alignment, Spanish prices
 Parliament (4),                                                          are fixed at the level set out below ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                         Whereas the amount of the co-responsibility levy
 Social Committee ( 5 ),                                                  referred to in Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC )
                                                                          No 2727 / 75 is determined on the basis of cereals pro­
 Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on mod­                     duction and the quantities of cereals used in the Com­
 ern farms , is the main instrument of the incomes policy                 munity without financial intervention and imports of
 in agriculture ; whereas full advantage cannot be drawn                  the substitute products listed in Annex D to the above­
 from such a policy unless it is integrated into the com­                 mentioned Regulation ; whereas , in view of this and of
 mon agricultural policy as a whole , including a                         the resulting cost to the cereals sector, it is proposed
 dynamic social and structural policy and the applica­                    that for its first year of application the co-responsibility
 tion of the rules on competition contained in the                        levy be fixed at a standard rate of 3 % of the interven­
 Treaty ;                                                                 tion price applicable for common wheat in the first
                                                                          month of the 1986 / 87 marketing year,
 Whereas in many cases surpluses can no longer be dis­
 posed of on normal terms either inside or outside the
                                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Community ; whereas , in order to reduce the cost to the
 budget of disposing of surpluses on markets of third
 countries and to encourage greater consumption within                                                Article /
 the Community, the restrictive price policy should con­
 tinue to be applied ; whereas this objective can be                       For the 1986 / 87 marketing year :
 attained by reducing, for the 1986/ 87 marketing year,
 the intervention price for barley , rye and sorghum and                   1.   The prices applicable in the cereals sector shall be
                                                                                as indicated in the Annex .
 by maintaining, for maize , the intervention price
 applied during the 1985 / 86 marketing year ; whereas ,                   2.   The amount of the co-responsibility levy referred to
 with regard to common wheat, bearing in mind the                               in Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2727 / 75 shall
 increased quality requirements for standard quality ,                          be 5,38 ECU / tonne .
 the intervention price applied during the 1985 / 86
 marketing year should be maintained for the 1986 / 87
 marketing year ;                                                                                     A rticle 2
                                                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
  ')   OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975,p . 1 .                                 publication in the Official Journal of the European
  :)   See page 29 of this Official Journal .                              Communities.
  3)   OJ No C 85 , 14. 4. 1986, p. 1 .
  ■>)  OJ No C 120, 20 . 5 . 1986 .
  ?)   OJ No C 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1986 , p. I.                                It shall apply from 1 July 1986.
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels , 23 May 1986 .
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                     G. BRAKS
                                                              ANNEX
                                                   ECU/tonne                                                         ECU/tonne
COMMON WHEAT                                                       MAIZE
Intervention price (')                                             Intervention price
—    Community of Ten                                   179,44     —    Community of Ten                                   179,44
—    Spain                                              172,58     —    Spain                                              172,58
Target price                                            256,16     Common target price                                    233,86
RYE                                                                SORGHUM
Intervention price (2 )                                             Intervention price
—    Community of Ten                                   170,47     —     Community of Ten                                  170,47
—    Spain                                              159,05     —     Spain                                             156,53
Target price                                            233,86     Common target price                                     233,86
BARLEY                                                              DURUM WHEAT
Intervention price                                                  Intervention price
—    Community of Ten                                   170,47     —     Community of Ten                                  299,60
—    Spain                                              156,53     —     Spain                                             211,06
Common target price                                     233,86      Target price                                           357,70
(')  The price shall be increased by 3,59 ECU/tonne for common wheat of breadmaking quality which meets the specific quality
     requirements provided for in Regulation ( EEC ) No 1570/77 .
(2) The price shall be increased by 8,97 ECU/tonne for rye of breadmaking quality which meets the specific quality requirements
     provided for in Regulation ( EEC) No 1570/ 77 .