CELEX: 51984PC0020(15)
Language: en
Date: 1984-01-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) OF AMENDING REGULATION N. 136/66/EEC ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN OILS AND FATS

No C 62/14                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               5. 3. 84
the average price of olive oil valid in production            lation No 136/66/EEC and applicable for seven
areas;                                                        months with effect from 1 January 1985 shall be 1,79
                                                              ECU per 100 kilograms.
Whereas, to ensure orderly marketing of the produc-
tion, in view of the prospects for production and
consumption, it is sufficient to provide for seven
                                                                                      Article 2
increases for olive oil,
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                  day following its publication in the Official Journal
                                                              of the European Communities.
                         Article 1                            It shall apply from 1 November 1984.
For the 1984/85 marketing year, the amount of the             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
monthly increases referred to in Article 10 of Regu-          directly applicable in all Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation No 136/66/EEC on the
                         establishment of a common organization of the market in oils and fats
                                                     (84/C 62/13)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   and of the yields of such trees, as determined
COMMUNITIES,                                                  according to a standard method;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro-            Whereas experience has shown that the number of
pean Economic Community, and in particular                    persons qualifying for the aid and the number of
Article 43 thereof,                                           checks to be carried out prior to the granting thereof
                                                              are very large, resulting in a substantial amount of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commis-                control work; whereas, therefore, for reasons of
sion,                                                         sound      administrative    management,     provision
                                                              should be made for granting the production aid to
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-             small producers on a flat-rate basis;
liament,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Social Committee,
Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation No 136/                                       Article 1
6 6 / E E C of 22 September 1966 on the establishment
of a common organization of the market in oils and
                                                              Article 5 (2) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC is
fats ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                              hereby replaced by the following:
 1413/82 (2), introduced a system of production aid
for olive oil; whereas this aid is granted, on the basis
of the quantity of oil actually produced, to growers               '2. The aid shall be granted:
who are members of a producers' organization
while, for other growers, it is granted on the basis of            — to growers who are members of a producer
the number and production potential of olive trees                      group recognized pursuant to this Regula-
                                                                        tion, whose production averages at least 100
                                                                        kilograms of olive oil per marketing year,
                                                                        on the basis of the quantity of oil actually
                                                                        produced by them;
 (') OJ N o 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                          — to other growers, on the basis of the number
(2) OJ No L 162, 12. 6. 1982, p. 6.                                     and production potential of the olive trees
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          cultivated by them and of the yields of such                                   Article 2
          trees, as determined according to a standard
          method, and provided that the olives pro-             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
          duced have actually been harvested.                   day following its publication in the Official Journal
                                                                of the European Communities.
     The aid shall be granted only in respect of areas
     planted with olive trees at 31 October 1978 and            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
     in Greece at 1 January 1981.'                              directly applicable in all Member States.
               Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing the target prices and intervention prices for
                              colza, rape and sunflower seed for the 1984/85 marketing year
                                                      (84/C 62/14)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 (2) of Council Regu-
COMMUNITIES,                                                    lation (EEC) No 1593/83 (2), if Community produc-
                                                                tion of colza and rape seed recordecHn accordance
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro-              with Article 24a of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
pean Economic Community, and in particular                      exceeds a guarantee threshold, there is to be a 1 %
Article 43 thereof,                                             reduction in the 1984/85 target and intervention
                                                                prices for every 50 000 tonnes in excess of the guar-
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/                  antee threshold, up to a maximum of 5 %; whereas
EEC of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of                 Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1593/83 fixes
a common organization of the market in oils and                 the guarantee threshold for the 1983/84 marketing
fats ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 year at 2 290 000 tonnes; whereas the actual average
. .., and in particular Article 22 (4) thereof,                  production recorded over the past three marketing
                                                                 years is 2 411 870 tonnes; whereas the target and
                                                                 intervention prices for the products in question
Having regard to the proposal from the Commis-                   should therefore be reduced by 2 % for the 1984/85
sion,                                                            marketing year;
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
liament,
                                                                 Whereas, in accordance with these criteria, the target
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                and intervention prices should be fixed at a lower
Social Committee,                                                level, in the case of colza and rape seed and, in the
                                                                 case of sunflower seed, at a higher level than that
                                                                 adopted for the preceding marketing year;
 Whereas, when the target prices and intervention
 prices for colza, rape and sunflower seed are fixed,
 account should be taken of the objectives of the
 common agricultural policy and of the contribution               Whereas the prices of colza, rape and sunflower
 which the Community desires to make to the har-                  seed must be fixed for specific standard qualities;
 monious development of world trade; whereas the                  whereas the latter should be laid down in relation to
 objectives of the common agricultural policy are, in             the average qualities of the seeds harvested in the
 particular, to ensure a fair standard of living for the          Community; whereas, for colza and rape seed, the
 agricultural Community, to ensure that supplies are              quality laid down for the 1983/84 marketing year
 available and that they reach consumers at reasona-              meets these requirements and can accordingly be
 ble prices;                                                      used for the following marketing year; whereas,
                                                                  experience has for some time shown the oil content
 Whereas the intervention price must be fixed in                  of sunflower seed to be well below 40 %; whereas an
 accordance with the criteria laid down in Article 24             adjustment as regards the oil content of sunflower
 (1) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC;                                 seed of the standard quality is therefore required,
 (i)   OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                        (2) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 43.