CELEX: 51989PC0660(01)
Language: en
Date: 1990-01-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2727/75 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN CEREALS

28. 2. 90                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No C 4 9 /
                                                                 II
                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                   COMMISSION
                     Commission proposals on the prices for agricultural products and on related measures
                                                             1989/90
                                                       COM(89) 660 final
                               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 8 January 1990)
                                                          Proposal for a
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No . . .
                                                              of . . .
                   amending Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the common organization of the market in
                                                              cereals
                                                          (90/C 49/01)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             other hand to producers able to present a cultivation
                                                                      contract;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas, moreover, in the framework of rural development
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                     measures, a scheme for aiding small producers of certain
 thereof,                                                             arable crops was introduced by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                      No . . . ( ! ); whereas that scheme also involves small
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   producers of cereals, for whom there is already provision for
                                                                      a specific scheme under Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      2727/75 ( 2 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,             3707/89 (3);
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social              Whereas the scheme provided for in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                      No . . . must replace the specific scheme for small producers
 Committe,
                                                                     of cereals; whereas, however, with a view to ensuring a
                                                                      smooth changeover from one scheme to the other, the
Whereas certain cereals of lesser importance, such as canary         abovementioned Regulation provides for the possibility of
 seed, millet and buckwheat, are no longer being grown               the Member States continuing to apply the abovementioned
owing to low yields and the lack of support in the market            specific scheme during the 1990/91 marketing year while
organization; whereas production of those cereals may                making it impossible to qualify simultaneously under the two
provide a worthwhile alternative to surplus production of            schemes;
wheat, barley and maize and accordingly deserves to be
encouraged, in accordance with the content of the                    Whereas, moreover, a simplification of the method for
Commission's communication to the Council and to the                 calculating the levies applicable to the products in question is
Parliament on rural development, by the granting of aid per          likely to facilitate market management; whereas the said
hectare to permit producers in traditional regions of                levies should accordingly be fixed henceforward on a
cultivation to attain a comparable income to that obtained           flat-rate basis by treating them in the same way as barley,
from competing cereals; whereas, so that production of               without the pre-existing level of protection being altered,
cereals in question does not develop out of proportion to the        (') See page . . of this Official Journal.
real needs of the Community market, the aid must be limited          (2) OJNoL281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.
on the one hand to a maximum area per holding and on the             (3) OJ No L 363, 13. 12. 1989, p. 1.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                              2.      The aid shall be fixed per hectare of area sown and
                                                                          harvested. It shall be paid in respect of no more than
                                                                           10 hectares per holding.
                             Article 1
                                                                           3.     The aid shall be fixed in accordance with the
                                                                          procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty at a
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 is hereby amended as
                                                                          level ensuring an income per hectare for the producers
follows:                                                                  concerned which is comparable with that obtained from
                                                                          the production of cereals in direct competition with
1. The first indent of the second subparagraph of Article                 buckwheat, canary seed and millet in traditional regions
    4 (1) is replaced by the following:                                   of production of the latter cereals.
     '— for      the     1990/91       marketing      year   and          4.      Detailed rules for the application of this Article and
           notwithstanding the second paragraph of Article 4               in particular, as and when necessary, details of the
           of Regulation (EEC) No . . ., small producers on               varieties which may qualify for the aid shall be laid
           conditions adopted by the Council by a qualified                down in accordance with the procedure provided for in
           majority on a proposal from the Commission,'.                  Article 26.'
2. Article 5 (2) is replaced by the following:                        5. The second subparagraph of Article 13 (1) is replaced by
     '2.     For oats, a threshold price shall be fixed for the            the following:
     Community for a standard quality in such a way that the
     price for the cereals referred to in paragraph 1 which are            'However, the levy applicable to rye for the product
     in competition with that product reaches the target price             falling within CN code 1008 90 lO.(triticale), and to
                                                                           barley, multiplied by 4 coefficient, for any other product
     on the Duisburg market.'
                                                                           falling within CN code 1008, shall be charged on imports
                                                                          of products falling within CN code 1008. The
3. In Article 6 (1), 'Article 7 (4)' is replaced by 'Article               coefficients shall be fixed in accordance with the
                                                                           procedure provided for in Article 26.'
     7 (3)'.
4. The following Article is inserted:
                                                                                                   Article 2
      'Article 10b
     1.      Aid shall be granted for the production of               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
     buckwheat, canary seed and millet. The aid may be                following its publication in the Official Journal of the
     granted in respect of certain varieties only.                    European Communities.
     The aid shall be granted subject to the conclusion of a
     cultivation contract.                                            It shall apply from the 1990/91 marketing year.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its               and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, . . .
                                                                                              For the Council