CELEX: 51986PC0020(01)
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION FIXING THE PRICES APPLICABLE TO CEREALS FOR THE 1986/87 MARKETING YEAR

14. 4. 86                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No C 85/1
                                                                II
                                                        (Preparatory Acts)
                                                    COMMISSION
               Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing the prices applicable to cereals for the 1986/87 marketing
                                                               year
                                                        COM(86) 20 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 14 February 1986)
                                                          (86/C 85/01)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            intervention prices applied during the previous marketing
                                                                    year in 1986/87 and by reincluding rye in the intervention
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                system by means of a slight reduction;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,
                                                                     Whereas, in the case of durum wheat, application of a more
                                                                     satisfactory price relationship with common wheat leads to a
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal,         reduction in its intervention price; whereas, however, in
and in particular Article 89 (1) thereof,                            order to improve that cereal's fluidity on the Community
                                                                     market, the target price should remain unchanged;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of
29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market
in cereals ( J ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                Whereas application of Article 68 of the Act of Accession of
No        , and in particular Article 3(5) thereof,                  Spain and Portugal has meant that prices in Spain differ from
                                                                     the common prices; whereas, pursuant to Article 70 (1) of
                                                                     the Act of Accession, Spanish prices should be aligned with
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   common prices each year at the start of the marketing year;
                                                                     whereas as a result of applying the criteria for this alignment
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,             Spanish prices are fixed at the level set out below;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
                                                                     Whereas the amount of the co-responsibility levy referred to
Committee,
                                                                     in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 is determined
                                                                     on the basis of cereals production and the quantities of
Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on modern               cereals used in the Community without financial intervention
farms, is the main instrument of the incomes policy in               and imports of the substitute products listed in Annex D to
agriculture; whereas full advantage cannot be drawn from             the abovementioned Regulation; whereas, in view of this and
such a policy unless it is integrated into the common                of the resulting cost to the cereals sector, it is proposed that
agricultural policy as a whole, including a dynamic social and       for its first year of application the co-responsibility levy be
structural policy and the application of the rules on                fixed at 3 % of the intervention price applicable for common
competition contained in the Treaty;                                 wheat in the first month of the 1986/87 marketing year,
Whereas in many cases surpluses can no longer be disposed of
on normal terms either inside or outside the Community;
whereas, in order to reduce the cost to the budget of
disposing of surpluses on markets outside the Community              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
and to encourage greater consumption within the
Community, the restrictive price policy should continue to be
applied; whereas, in the case of cereals other than durum                                        Article 1
wheat, this objective may be achieved by retaining the
(») OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.                                  For the 1986/87 marketing year:
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1.  T h e prices applicable in the cereals sector shall be as                                      Article 2
    indicated in the Annex.
                                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
2.  T h e a m o u n t of the co-responsibility levy referred to in      European      Communities.
    Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) N o 2 7 2 7 / 7 5 shall be 5,38
     ECU/tonne.                                                         It shall apply from 1 July 1 9 8 6 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all M e m b e r States.
                                                                 ANNEX
                                                                                                             (Ecu/tonnes)
                Common wheat
                Common intervention price
                — Community of Ten                                                                                  179,44
                — Spain                                                                                             174,41
                Target price                                                                                       256,16
                Rye
                Common intervention price
                — Community of Ten                                                                                  179,44
                — Spain                                                                                             169,16
                Common target price                                                                                 233,86
                Barley
                Common intervention price
                — Community of Ten                                                                                  179,44
                — Spain                                                                                             166,50
                Common target price                                                                                 233,86
                Maize
                Common intervention price
                — Community of Ten                                                                                  179,44
                — Spain                                                                                             174,41
                Common target price                                                                                 233,86
                Sorghum
                Common intervention price
                — Community of Ten                                                                                  179,44
                — Spain                                                                                             166,50
                Common target price                                                                                 233,86
                Durum wheat
                Common intervention price
                — Community of Ten                                                                                  298,23
                — Spain                                                                                             215,45
                Target price                                                                                        357,70