CELEX: 51973PC0532
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-11
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL fixing a carry-over payment for stocks of common wheat, barley, rye of breadmaking quality and maize remaining at the end of the 1972/73 marketing year (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                      COM(73)532 final
                                                      Brussels , 11 April 1973
                                   Proposal for a
                              REGULATION (EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
                   fixing a carry-over payment for stocks of common wheat ,
                  "barley, rye of breadmaking quality and maize remaining
                   at the end of the 1972/73 marketing year
                    (submitted to the Council by the Commission)
     COM(73 ) 532 final
 ---pagebreak---                         EXPMNATOFT         MEMORANDUM
                               II ΙΙΙΙ,ΙΒΙ
Article 9 of Regulation Ho I20/67 /EEC provides that "before 15 March of each
year the Council , acting on a proposal from the Commission in accordance
with the voting procedure laid down in Article 43(2 ) of the Treaty, is
to decide whether a carry-over payment should "be granted in respect of
ono or more cereals harvested in the Community .
Although the Council has not yet fixed the agricultural prices for the
1973/74 marketing year , it is necessary to fix immediately the terms of
this payment to ensure that the market wili function properly by
preventing quantities of cereals from "being offered to intervention
agencies .
It has been found that , as in previous years , the carry-over payment
must be granted for common wheat to give maximum support to the market .
On the other hand no carry-over payment has been granted previously for
durum wheat or barley .  While there is , as ever , a deficit on the durum
wheat market , there is an excess supply of barley this year .    A carry­
over payment should therefore be granted, exceptionally, for barley
harvested in the Community , to prevent the surplus from being channelled
towards the intervention agencies at the end of the marketing year .
There is a continuing surplus of rye of breadmaking quality and a
carry-over payment should be granted for that cereal so that quantities
may be carried over without recourse to the Intervention system .
Article 9 provides that each year a carry-over payment shall be granted
for maize in the surplus production zones .
To achieve the aim of keeping the growing burden on the EAGGF to a
minimum , the carry-over payment for all these cereals should be fixed at the
maximum level , that is to say at the difference between the target prices
at the end of the marketing year and the beginning of the new year .
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Prices m the three new Member States are still lower than the Community
prices . The difference "between prices in the new Member States and
Community prices is reflected for each marketing year by the "accession"
compensatory amounts . The carry-over payment will therefore have to be
adjusted in those States by deduction of the difference between the
"accession" compensatory amount applicable for the 1972/73 marketing
year and that applicable in 1973/74 * Where this deduction gives a
negative figure , the carry–over payment will be equal to zero in the new
Member States .
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                                   Popootil fer a
                                          ( 2BC ) 0?  COUNCIL ■
fixing a carry–over payment for stocks of common wheat , barley, rye of
breadmaking quality and maize remaining at the end of the 1972/73 marketing
                                         year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC^^ of 13 June 1967 on the
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common organization of the market in cereals , as last amended by the Act v '
annexed to the Treaty^^ concerning the accession of new Member States to the
European Economic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community, signed
at Brussels on 22 January 1 9T2t and in particular Article 9 (0 and. ( 5) thereof}
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas the carry-over payment provided for in Article 9(1 ) of Regulation
No 120/67/EEC is designed, in particular, to avoid excessive offers of cereals
to intervention agencies when the monthly increases in intervention prices
come to an end , when a large proportion of the stocks of cereals could be sold
directly on the market before the new harvest ; whereas the carry-over payment
provided for in Article 9 of the said Regulation should be granted for common
wheat , barley and rye of breadmaking quality since there are large stocks of
the first two cereals throughout the Community and of the third cereal in
certain regions ;
Whereas , despite the . genera', shortage of maize in the Community , certain
quantities of that cereal are likely to be offered for intervention in
particular regions ; whereas a carry-over payment should therefore be fixed for
maize ; whereas the marketing of a given harvest normally extends beyond the
end of the marketing year ; whereas the grant of a carry-over payment would
 '<0J No 117 , 19 June 1967, p . 2269/67 .
 ^< 0J No L 73, 27 March 1972, p. 14.
 iJ0J No L 73, 27 March 1972, p. 5 .
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ensure that substantial stocks , which in the normal way would still "be
held at tho ond of the marketing year , should not he marketod only in tho
last few months of that year ;
Whereas , since the target prioes have not yet "been fixed for the 1973/74
marketing year , the amount of the . carry-ovor payment should be defined as
tho difference between those prices and the target prices for the last
month of the present marketing year ;
Whereas the carry-over payment cannot be granted in respect of cereals
harvested in the Community in 1973 > since in this case no cost increases have
been incurred in respect of storage ; whereas , since the carry-over
payment is linked to the intervention system , that payment should be made
only in respect of cereals of fair and sound merchantable quality as
defined in the provisions adopted under Article 7(5 ) of Regulation No
I20/67/EEC ;
Whereas , when applied in the new Member States , the carry-over payment
must bo adjusted in line with their prices , which still differ from
prices in the Community as originally constituted ;   whereas the basis
for calculation of the payment should be not the target price but the
target price reduced by the accession compensatory amount applicable to
each cereal in each of the new Member States ;   whereas the carry-over
payment must therefore be reduced in tho new Member States by the
difference abetween the "accession" compensatory amount applicable in
1972/73 and that applicable in 1973/74 ; whereas, should this reduction
give a negative figure, the Community carry-over payment should be
reduced to zero when applied in the new Member States concerned ;
MS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
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Article 1                                                         ....... ;
1 . A carry-over payment shall bo granted in respect of stocks of common
wheat , "barley end rye of brcadmaking quality remaining in the Community
at the end of the 1972/73 marketing year.      .
The amount of this payment shall he equal to the difference "between the
target price applicable in the last month of the 1972/73 marketing year
and that applicable in the first month of the 1973/74 marketing year.
2 . In the new Member States the carry-over payment shall "be reduced by the
difference between the relevant "accession" compensatory amount applicable
for the 1972/73 marketing year and that applicable in 1973/74*
Where such reduction gives a negative figure , the carry-over payment
shall be zero .
Article 2
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The carry-over payment to be granted, pursuant to Article 9(2 ) of
Regulation No I20/67/EEC , in respect of stocks of maize remaining in the ?
surplus production zones at the end of the 1972/73 marketing year shall
be equal to the difference between the target price applicable in the
last month of the 1972/73 marketing year and that applicable in the
first month of the 1973/74 market year.
Article 3
The" carry-over payments provided for in Articles# and 2 shall not be
granted in respect of cereals of the 1973 harvest nor in respect of
cereals which are not of the quality required for intervention buying-in
or , as regards rye of breadmaking quality, do not satisfy the conditions
laid down for price increases in accordance tvith Article 7(5 ) of
Regulation Ho I20/67/EHC.
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                                  /
Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall he "binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,     19 «»»
                                           For the Council
                                            The President