CELEX: 31974R1125
Language: en
Date: 1974-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1125/74 of the Council of 29 April 1974 amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC on the common organization of the market in cereals

No L 128 / 12                              Offioial Journal of the European Communities                             10 . 5 . 74
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 1125/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                          of 29 April 1974
                amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC on the common organization of the market
                                                             in cereals
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                           Whereas a manufacturing process known as direct
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         hydrolysis is at present being used in the Community
                                                                      whereby glucose is produced from maize groats thus
                                                                      bypassing the 'starch' stage; whereas glucose
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                          produced from starch in the traditional manner
European Economic Community, and in particular                        benefits indirectly from the production refund
Article 43 thereof;                                                   granted for maize to be used in the manufacture of
                                                                      starch ; whereas , in order to avoid any distortion of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                   competition        between      glucose  manufacturers
                                                                      according to which of the two manufacturing
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                          processes they use, a production refund should be
Parliament;                                                           granted for maize groats or meal used in the
                                                                      Community for the manufacture of glucose by direct
Whereas Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC (*) of                       hydrolysis ;
13 June 1967 on the common organization of the
market in cereals, as last amended by Regulation
( EEC) No 1346/73 (2), provides for the fixing of a                   Whereas, pursuant to Annex A to Regulation No
basic intervention price for barley; whereas, in the                  120/67/EEC, rice pellets are included under the
light of experience, the fixing of such a price should                common organization of the market in cereals, while,
be abolished and replaced by the fixing of a single                   in fact, the product comes under the common organ­
intervention price with a view to promoting the                       ization of the market in rice; whereas this product
interplay of market forces in respect of barley;                      should therefore no longer appear in the said Annex,
Whereas the fixing of the marketing year for maize
from 1 August to 31 July does not correspond to                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the agricultural cycle of the cereal in question ;
whereas this discrepancy encourages the use of maize
on the market at the beginning of the marketing                                                 Article 1
year for barley, which results at such times in an
abnormal degree of intervention on the market in                       The second indent of Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation
barley; whereas, in order to avoid such a situation,                  No 120/67/EEC shall be replaced by the following:
a new date should be fixed for the beginning of the
marketing year for maize which is more in line with                       '— a basic intervention price for common
its agricultural cycle and a system of carry-over                               wheat;'.
payments similar to that for other cereals should be
introduced for maize in stock at the end of the
marketing year;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas the production refund for quellmehl was
initially granted with a view to promoting certain                    Article 3 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC shall be
specific uses of quellmehl as a food for human                         replaced by , the following:
consumption, account being taken of the possibility
 of its competing with a number of other products ;
                                                                           'Article 3
Whereas experience has shown that the opportunity                           With the exception of maize, for which it shall
for such substitution is economically slight, if not                       begin on 1 October and end on 30 September of
 non-existent; whereas the production refund for                           the following year, the marketing year for all
 quellmehl should therefore be abolished ;                                 products referred to in Article 1 shall begin on
                                                                           1 August and end on 31 July of the following
                                                                           year; the 1974/75 marketing year for maize shall,
 0 OJ No 117, 19. 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67.                                   however, begin on 1 August 1974 and end on
 (2 ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p. 8 .                                 30 September 1975.'
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                               Article 3                                                          Article 4
In Article 4 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC :                            In Article 9 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC :
                                                                      — maize shall be added to the list of cereals in
1 . The first subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall be
      replaced by the following :                                          paragraph 1 for which a carry-over payment may
                                                                           be granted ;
      'In order to guarantee to producers that the
      market price does not fall below a minimum                      — paragraph 2 shall be replaced by :
      level, derived intervention prices for common                        'For maize, the carry-over payment shall be
      wheat shall be fixed for the Community, in                           limited to quantities in stock in areas of surplus
      addition to the basic intervention price .'                          production .'
2. Paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following :
                                                                                                  Article 5
      'For barley, rye, durum wheat and maize, for
      which no basic intervention price is laid down,                 The text of Article 11 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 120/67/
      single intervention prices shall be fixed for the               EEC shall be replaced by the following:
      Community for all the marketing centres
      determined for those cereals . These prices shall                     ' 1 . A production refund shall be granted :
      correspond to the lowest derived intervention
      prices which would have been fixed in the                             ( a) for maize and common wheat used in the
      Community, had paragraph 1 been applied in                                  Community for the manufacture of starch ;
      respect of the said cereals.'                                          (b) for potato starch ;
3 . The second subparagraph of paragraph 3 shall                             ( c) for maize groats and meal (gritz) used in the
      be replaced by the following :                                              Community for the manufacture of glucose
                                                                                  by direct hydrolysis ;
      'The intervention price for maize shall be
      effective from 1 October to 31 July of the                            (d) for maize used in the Community by the
      following year. From 1 August to 30 September,                              maize industry for the manufacture of maize
      the intervention prices effective for October of                            groats and meal (gritz) used in the
      the following marketing year shall apply.                                   Community brewing industry for the
      However, for the 1974/75 marketing year, the                                production of beer.'
       intervention price for maize shall be effective
       from 1 August 1974 to 31 July 1975 .'                                                      Article 6
 4. Paragraph 4 ( a ) shall             be  replaced    by   the
       following :                                                     With effect from 1 September 1974, the text of
                                                                       tariff subheading No ex 11.02 F in Annex A to
       'for each Member State, the marketing centre                    Regulation No 120/67/EEC shall be replaced by :
       for common wheat to which the lowest inter­
       vention price applies and the relevant price ;'                       'ex 11.02 ex F. Pellets except rice pellets.'
 5 . Paragraph 4          ( c)   shall be replaced by the                                         Article 7
       following :
       'the single intervention prices for barley, rye,                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
       durum wheat and maize .'                                        1974 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Luxembourg, 29 April 1974.
                                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                                 The President
                                                                                                     J. ERTL