CELEX: 31995R0162
Language: en
Date: 1995-01-31 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 162/95 of 31 January 1995 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

No L 24/ 14                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  1 . 2. 95
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 162/95
                                                       of 31 January 1995
                                         fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        and quotations recorded during the first 25 days of the
                                                                   month in question for quantities that can be delivered
                                                                   during the following calendar month are to be used ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              whereas the average world market price thus determined
Community,                                                         is used to fix the aid rate applicable on the following
                                                                   month :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78
of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the
market in dried fodder ('), as last amended by Commis­             Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in the
sion Regulation (EC) No 3496/93 (2), and in particular             case of offers and quotations not of the type referred to
Article 5 (3) thereof,                                             above ; whereas these adjustments were defined in Article
                                                                   3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30
                                                                   June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application
Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No         of the system of aid for dried fodder (8), as last amended
 1117/78, when the guide price is higher than the average          by Regulation (EEC) No 1069/93 (');
world market price, aid is granted for dried fodder as
described under Article 1 (b) and (c) of that Regulation
and obtained from fodder plants harvested in the
Community ; whereas that aid takes account of a                    Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation
percentage of the difference between these two prices ;            (EEC) No 1417/78, when no offer or quotation can be
                                                                   used to determine the average world market price, that
                                                                   price is determined on the basis of the sum of the value
Whereas the guide price in the dried fodder sector was             of competing products ; whereas those products are
fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1288/93 (3) and               defined in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 ;
Commission Regulation (EC) No 538/94 (4) ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2065/92 0, as                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1288/93, sets the                   1417/78, when forward prices differ from that applying in
percentage referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)            the month when the application is lodged, the aid rate is
No 1117/78 for the 1994/95 marketing year at 70 % ;                adjusted by a correcting amount calculated from the trend
                                                                   of forward prices ;
Whereas the average world market price is determined for
a bulk pelleted product, delivered to Rotterdam, of the
standard quality for which the guide price has been fixed ;        Whereas, where the average world market price is deter­
                                                                   mined in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 1417/78, the corrective amount must be equal to the
Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   difference between the average world market price and
1417/78 of 19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried                the average forward world market price determined by
fodder (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regula­
 111 0/89 Q, the average world market price for the                tion (EEC) No 1528/78 and valid for delivery during a
products described in the first and third indents of Article       month other than that in which the aid is introduced,
1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 is to be determined           adjusted by the percentage fixed pursuant to Article 5 (2)
on the basis of the most favourable actual purchase possi­         of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 ; whereas where the
bilities excepting those which cannot be considered                average forward world market price for one or more
representative of the real market trend ; whereas offers           months cannot be determined by applying the criteria
                                                                   laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
(') OJ  No  L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1 .                             1528/78, the corrective amount must be fixed for the
(2) OJ  No  L 319, 21 . 12. 1993, p. 17.                           month or months in question at a level such that the aid
(3) OJ  No  L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 1 .                             is equal to zero ;
O   OJ  No  L 68, 11 . 3. 1994, p. 20.
0   OJ  No  L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 48.
(6) OJ  No  L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 1 .                            (8) OJ No L 179, 1 . 7. 1978, p. 10.
0   OJ  No  L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 1 .                             0 OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 114.
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Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article         Whereas, given that the new arrangements referred to
 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 ('), as last             above are due to apply from 1 April 1995, the aid paid
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (2), are used to             under the current arrangements for the period 1 April to
convert amounts expressed in third country currencies              31 October 1995 should be fixed at zero ;
and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;                Whereas, as the result of the applications of all these
whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­           provisions to the offers and quotations which the
tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­             Commission has recorded, the rate of the additional aid
lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (3), as last amended by Regula­            for dried fodder must be fixed as indicated in . the table
tion (EC) No 157/95 (4) ;                                          annexed to this Regulation,
Whereas the rate of the additional aid must be fixed once
per month so as to ensure application of the aid from the
first day of the month following the date of its fixing ;          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, when adopting the Decision on the reform of
the common agricultural policy in 1992, the Council                                         Article 1
announced its intention of introducing new aid arrange­
ments for the production of dried fodder based on aid              The rate of the aid referred to in Article 5 (3) of Regula­
fixed per tonne ; whereas, during the negotiations on the          tion (EEC) No 1117/78 is fixed in the Annex to this
agricultural prices for the 1994/95 marketing year, this           Regulation.
was confirmed and a proposal for a Regulation has been
submitted to the Council providing for the establishment
of a new organization of the market in the sector in ques­                                  Article 2
tion to take effect from 1 April 1995 based on fixed-rate
aid per tonne for specified maximum quantities ;                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1995.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                  Done at Brussels, 31 January 1995.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(») OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
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                                                           ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 31 January 1995 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
            Aid applicable from 1 February 1995 to dried fodder :
                                                                                                      (ECU/tonne)
                                               Fodder dehydrated by artificial heat
                                                             drying                 Fodder otherwise dried
                                                      Protein concentrates
            February 1995                                    74,287                        44,486
            Aid in case of advance fixing for the month of ;
                                                                                                      (ECU/tonne)
            March 1995                                       74,405                        44,604
            April 1 995                                       0,000                         0,000
            May 1995                                          0,000                         0,000
            June 1995                                         0,000                         0,000
            July 1995                                         0,000                         0,000
            August 1995                                       0,000                         0,000
            September 1995                                    0,000                         0,000
            October 1 995                                     0,000                         0,000