CELEX: 31975D0236
Language: en
Date: 1975-04-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 4 April 1975 authorizing certain Member States to apply special intervention measures for common wheat

No L 96 / 30                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                17 . 4 . 75
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 4 April 1975
             authorizing certain Member States to apply special intervention measures for
                                                         common wheat
                                   (Only the French , Dutch and German texts are authentic)
                                                           (75/236/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       for Belgium , 15 000 metric tons for Luxembourg and
COMMUNITIES,                                                         300 000 metric tons for Germany would seem to be
                                                                     sufficient to attain that objective ; whereas to this end
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                contracts should be established between the holders
Economic Community ;                                                 and the intervention agencies concerned and the
                                                                     detailed rules for this system should be laid down ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                   Whereas in order to attain the objectives referred to,
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­              the holders of common wheat should be given an
lation ( EEC) No 665/75 (2), and in particular the                   aMowance for the storage costs which they will incur
second paragraph of Article 8 and Article 24 thereof ;               and which would have been automatically and wholly
                                                                     at the expense of the intervention agency if they had
Having regard to Council Regulation No 174/                          offered their stocks to it ; whereas , moreover, this
67/ EEC (3) of 27 June 1967 on special intervention                  allowance should take into account the different situa­
measures for cereals, as last amended by Regulation                  tions obtaining in the various Member States and parti­
(EEC) No 445/68 (4), and in particular Article 1                     cularly, with reference to the corrections to the
thereof ;
                                                                     exchange rates from 1 August 1975, in financing
                                                                     costs, drying costs and transport costs, the latter costs
Having regard to the communications from the Repu­                   being particularly high in France ;
blic of France of 20 March              1975 amended on 26
March 1975, the Kingdoms of the Netherlands of 18
March 1975 and Belgium of 19 March 1975 , the                        Whereas in case of any disturbance on the Commu­
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg of 19 March 1975 and                       nity market, the possibility should remain for the
the Federal Republic of Germany of 19 March 1975                     intervention agencies concerned to authorize the
respectively stating the particularly difficult situation            termination of storage for the quantities in question ,
for holders of barley and including requests for special             under the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regula­
intervention measures for common wheat ;                             tion No 120 / 67/ EEC ;
Whereas as a result of the price relationship between                Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
cereals the market price for common wheat could be                   are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
below the intervention price at the end of the 1974/75               ment Committee for Cereals,
marketing year ; whereas there is the risk that
common wheat will be little used for animal feeding,
the denaturing premium for the said marketing year
having been fixed at zero ; whereas the market situa­                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
tion may therefore give rise to the fear of massive
deliveries of this product into intervention immedi­
ately before the new harvest ;                                                                Article 1
Whereas measures suited to the circumstances
                                                                     The following Member States are authorized to have
described above should be taken in order to avoid the
                                                                     their intervention agencies carry out special interven­
intervention agencies in question being obliged to                   tion operations for common wheat within the frame­
make large purchases of common wheat ; whereas the                   work of the undermentioned provisions :
market should therefore be eased by removing from it
for a fixed period a quantity of this product ; whereas              — the Republic of France — 400 000 metric tons,
a quantity of 400 000 metric tons for France, 320 000
metric tons for the Netherlands , 150 000 metric tons                — the Kingdom of the Netherlands — 320 000
                                                                         metric tons ,
(')  OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269 / 67 .                       — the Kingdom of Belgium — 1 50 000 metric tons,
(2)  OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 14 .
(3 ) OJ No 130 , 28 . 6 . 1967, p . 2609/67 .                        — the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg — 15 000
(4 ) OJ No L 91 , 12. 4 . 1968 , p. 3 .                                  metric tons ,
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— the Federal Republic of Germany — 300 000                      the conditions laid down for acceptability for interven­
      metric tons .                                              tion .
These operations shall involve the conclusion before 1          The intervention agency shall verify the existence of
May 1 975 of contracts, between the intervention                the claimants' stocks before signature of the contract
agency and holders of common wheat, in terms of                 and at the end of the period of storage. Moreover it
which :
                                                                shall carry out all necessary control measures to
(a) the holders shall undertake to keep in store from           confirm that the undertaking is respected .
      15 April 1975 to 29 February 1976 a given quan­
      tity of common wheat ;
                                                                                         Article 4
(b) the intervention agency shall grant to the holders
      of that quantity, at the end of the period laid down
      in (a), a daily premium intended to cover the costs
                                                                The Member States concerned may be authorized,
      of the operation fixed contractually at 0-035 unit        according to the procedure laid down in Article 26 of
      of account per metric ton ;                               Regulation No 120/67/ EEC, to terminate the under­
                                                                taking provided for in Article 1 (a) no sooner than 1
(c) the aforementioned premium shall be granted, for             November 1975 .
      the quantity contracted for, from 1 April 1975, in
      so far as these quantities have been subjected to         In this case the daily premium referred to in Article
      special intervention measures under the terms of           1 (b) shall be granted up to the day fixed for termina­
      the Commission Decision of 30 January 1975                tion of the undertaking at the end of the actual period
      authorizing certain Member States to apply special        of storage .
      intervention     measures    for   common      wheat,
      provided there has been no termination of storage         For the remainder of the period from      that day until
      between 1 April and the date of the application           29 January 1976, a forfeit at a rate of    0-008 unit of
      referred to in Article 2 .
                                                                account per metric ton per day shall      be paid , to a
                                                                maximum of 0-24 unit of account per       metric ton .
                           Article 2
Holders who wish to enter into such an undertaking                                       Article 5
must make a written application , amounting to a firm
undertaking, to the intervention agency before 15               The Member States concerned shall keep the Commis­
April 1975 indicating the quantity in question which            sion informed as to the development of the operations
may not be less than 200 metric tons, but this limit            provided for in this Decision .
shall not, however, apply for quantities already in
storage under the terms of the aforesaid Commission
Decision of 30 January 1975 .                                                            Article 6
Should the total quantity in respect of which the               This Decision is addressed to the French Republic,
holders wish to contract exceed the quantity given in
                                                                the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of
the first paragraph of Article 1 , the intervention
                                                                Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
agency shall allocate the quantity which will be                Federal Republic of Germany.
contracted in proportion to the quantity offered by
each holder.
The competent agency shall communicate to the
holders before 1 May 1975 the quantities which will             Done at Brussels, 4 April 1975 .
be subject to the undertaking.
                                                                                           For the Comm ission
                           Article 3
                                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
The operation referred to in Article 1 may only relate
to common wheat from the 1974 crop which fulfils                                       Member of the Commission