CELEX: 31973D0194
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 June 1973 authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to apply special intervention measures for rye

No L 194/24                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              16 . 7. 73
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 13 June 1973
                authorizing the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand
                            Duchy of Luxembourg to apply special intervention measures for rye
                                           ( Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                             (73/194/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                       Whereas, because a single intervention price has
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                         been fixed for rye from 1 August 1973, the compensa­
                                                                       tory allowance for rye of bread-making quality at
                                                                       the end of the 1972/73 season will be far less than
                                                                       the corresponding allowance at the end of the pre­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                     ceding season ; and whereas, because the compensa­
pean Economic Community ;                                              tory allowance cannot, overall, cover the difference
                                                                       in prices between the last season and the new
                                                                       season, the stockholders of rye of bread-making
Having regard to the Council Regulation No 120/67/                     quality will be inclined to deliver their stock to the
EEC of 13 June 1967 establishing a common market                       intervention agencies before 31 May ;
for cereals ( 1 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1346/73 (2), and in particular Article 8 , second
paragraph thereof;                                                     Whereas, if the intervention agencies in Belgium, the
                                                                       Netherlands and Luxembourg are not to be obliged
                                                                       to purchase, before the end of the season, excessive
Having regard to the Council Regulation No 174/67/                     amounts of rye of bread-making quality compared
EEC (3) of 27 June 1967 on special intervention                        with the amount marketed, it will be necessary to
measures for cereals , as amended by Regulation                        grant a lump-sum allowance to the stockholders of
 ( EEC) No 445/68 (4), and in particular Article 1                     rye of bread-making quality in these Member States
thereof;                                                               in order to encourage them to retain their stocks
                                                                      until 31 July 1973 ;
Having regard to the requests of the Kingdom of
Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, made to the Com­                          are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 mission on 30 May 1973 , in which these Member                        ment Committee for Cereals ;
 States point out the particularly difficult situation of
their nationals holding stocks of rye of bread-making
quality at the end of the 1972/73 season because of                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the implementation of the new method for determin­
ing the price of rye for the 1973 /74 season, and
request that special intervention measures be applied ;                                       Article 1
Whereas the stock of rye of bread-making quality                      In pursuance of the provisions of Article 1 of
required by the milling trade in these Member States                  Council Regulation No 174/67/EEC, the intervention
to ensure the normal functioning of that trade bet­                   agencies of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom
ween one season and the next is generally about                       of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxem­
10 000 metric tons in Belgium, 5 000 metric tons in                   bourg may apply special measures for rye.
the Netherlands and 200 metric tons in Luxembourg;
                                                                      These measures consist of granting a lump-sum
                                                                      allowance of 2·75 units of account per metric ton in
                                                                      respect of a total quantity not exceeding 10 000
0)   OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67.                            metric tons in Belgium, 5 000 metric tons in the
(2)  OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 .
( 3) OJ No 130 , 28 . 6. 1967, p . 2609/67.                           Netherlands and 200 metric tons in Luxembourg to
(4)  OJ No L 91 , 12 . 4. 1968 , p . 3 .                              stockholders whose stocks of rye of bread-making
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quality comply with the conditions 'laid down in the                 of the operations provided for in this Decision .
Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1554/73 (*) of 7
June 1973 on the conditions for granting compensa­                                          Article 3
tory allowances for common wheat, rye of bread­
making quality and maize in stock at the end of the                  This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
 1972/73 . season .                                                  Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the
                                                                     Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
                          Article 2
                                                                     Done at Brussels, 13 June 1973 .
                                                                                                    For the Commission
The Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the
                                                                                                       The President
Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
shall keep the Commission informed of the progress                                                 François-Xavier ORTOLI
i1) OJ No L 156, 13 . 6 . 1973 , p . 13 .