CELEX: 51982PC0085
Language: en
Date: 1982-03-03
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION NO 136/66/EEC ON THE ESTABLISHING OF A COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN OILS AND FATS

23.3.82                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               No C 72/11
                                                          II
                                                   (Preparatory Acts)
                                             COMMISSION
              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
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 10 March 1982)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Article 7
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                    The representative market price shall be fixed at a
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                        level permitting normal marketing of olive oil
European Economic Community, and in particular                      produced.
Article 43 thereof,
                                                                   This price shall be fixed at a level such that,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 taking into account
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
                                                                   — the expected price trend during the marketing
liament,
                                                                        year for the most representative competing
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                        vegetable oil in the main areas of
Social Committee,                                                       consumption, and
Whereas the marketing of Community production of                   — the impact on olive oil prices of the monthly
olive oil is meeting with difficulties in view of the                   increases referred to in Article 10,
relationship emerging on the market between the
price of olive oil and that of competing types of oil;             the ratio between the representative market price
whereas these difficulties are likely to worsen in                 and that of the competing vegetable oil at the
future in an enlarged Community;                                   wholesale stage does not exceed 2 : 1 . '
"Whereas, in order to resolve these difficulties, it
should be stated that the representative market price
for olive oil should be fixed in such a way as to
ensure a price relationship which is more favourable                                    Article 2
to olive oil; whereas it is therefore appropriate to
amend Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC ('), as                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2989/81 (2),               day following its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                               the European Communities.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                               It shall apply from 1 November following the date of
                         Article 1                             accession of Spain to the Community.
Article 7 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC is hereby                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
replaced by the following:                                     directly applicable in all Member States.
(') OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
(2) OJ No L 299, 20. 10. 1981, p. 15.