CELEX: 31984R1430
Language: en
Date: 1984-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1430/84 of 23 May 1984 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

No L 138 /26                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               24 . 5 . 84
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1430/84
                                                         of 23 May 1984
                                       fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    offers on the world market known to the Commission
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      and of quotations on those exchanges which are signi­
                                                                   ficant for international trade ; whereas Article 2 of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Commission Regulation No 225/67/EEC of 28 June
 Economic Community,                                                1967 on detailed rules for determining the world
                                                                   market price for oil seeds Q, as last amended by Regu­
                                                                   lation (EEC) No 1 326/84 (8), provides that offers and
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC                 quotations which do not relate to shipments to be
 of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                    effected within 30 days following the date on which
 common organization of the market in oils and fats ('),           the world market price is determined should be disre­
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 101 /84 (2),             garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the
 and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof,                         Commission believes, in view of general price move­
                                                                    ments or information available to it, not to be repre­
                                                                   sentative of the real trend of the market must also be
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                      disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
 Committee,                                                        quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating to
                                                                    seed of a quality other than that normally acceptable
 Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC                    on the world market must also be disregarded ;
 provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of
 oil seeds harvested and processed within the Commu­
  nity when the target price for a species of seed is               Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
 higher than the price on the world market ; whereas                provides that of the offers and quotations taken into
 these provisions at present apply only in respect of               consideration, those for delivery c and f should be
 colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                  increased by 0,2 % ; whereas offers and quotations for
                                                                    delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased, as
                                                                    appropriate, by loading, transport and insurance costs
 Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically,            from the point of shipment or loading to the frontier
 be equal to the difference between those two prices ;              crossing point ; whereas cif offers and quotations for
                                                                    frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should
 Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in              be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and
  the target price for oil seeds for the 1984/ 85 marketing         insurance costs as compared with a product delivered
                                                                    cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take
 year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 11 02/84 (3)
  and (EEC) No 1103/84 (4) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu­            account only of the loading, transport and insurance
  lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market               costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas,
  price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing               finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam
                                                                    should be increased by 0,242 ECU ;
  point, is to be determined on the basis of the most
  favourable purchasing opportunities, quotations being
  adjusted where necessary to take account of quotations
  for competing products ;                                          Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC
                                                                    provides that the world market price should be deter­
                                                                    mined for seed of the standard quality for which the
  Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/                   target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ;
  67/ EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­
  mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing
  the frontier crossing point (5), as last amended by               Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
  Regulation (EEC) No 1983/82 (6), fixed the said cros­              provides that offers and quotations relating to products
  sing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that                presented otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted
< Regulation provides that when the world market price               by deducting the additional value resulting from that
  is being determined account should be taken of all                 presentation ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
                                                                     a quality other than the standard quality for which the
  (') OJ No   172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p.  3025/66 .                      target price was fixed should be adjusted on the basis
  (2) OJ No   L 113, 28 .   4. 1984, p. 7.                           of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex
  (3) OJ No   L 113, 28 .   4. 1984, p. 8 .
  (4) OJ No   L 113, 28 .   4. 1984, p. 10 .
  H   OJ No   111 , 10. 6.  1967, p.  2196/67.                       0 OJ No 136, 30 . 6 . 1967, p. 2919 / 67.
  (6) OJ No L 215, 23 . 7. 1982, p. 6 .                              (") OJ No L 129 , 15 . 5 . 1984, p . 15 .
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 to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case of offers on       adjustment should be made where the margin is found
 the world market for qualities of colza and rape seed        to be less than 0,604 ECU ;
 other than those listed in that Annex, coefficients of
 equivalence derived from those listed in that Annex
 may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 225/             Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14
 67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived coef­             June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down
 ficients are being calculated, account must be taken of      rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas,
the differences between prices for the qualities of seed      under that Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted
 in question and prices for the qualities listed in that      is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must
Annex, and of the characteristics of these various            be equal to the amount applicable on the day on
seeds ;                                                       which the application for advance fixing was lodged,
                                                              adjusted by the difference between the target price
                                                              valid on that day and the target price valid on the day
                                                              on which the seeds are placed under control at an oil
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                 or feed mill and, where appropriate, a corrective
                                                              amount ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regula­
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used
as a basis for determining the world market price, that       tion (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying
                                                              down detailed rules for the application of the subsidy
price should be determined on the basis of the value
                                                              system for oil seeds, as amended by Regulation (EEC)
of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting
                                                              No 837/84 (2), provides that such adjustment should
from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within
                                                              involve increasing or reducing the amount of subsidy
the Community less an amount corresponding to the
                                                              applicable on the day on which the application was
cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ;        lodged by the corrective amount and the difference
whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into             between the target prices mentioned in Article 35 of
consideration for the purposes of the calculation are         Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 ;
fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ;
whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­
mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­
tion :
                                                              Whereas Article 37 of Regulation No 2681 /83
                                                              provides that the corrective amount must be equal to
                                                              the difference between the world market price for
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                 colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used        for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during
as a basis for determining the world market price and         the month in which the seeds were placed under
where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value      control at an oil mill, those prices being determined in
of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the          accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation No
world market price should be determined on the basis          1 1 5/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer and no price can be
of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake,           used for such determination, the method of calculation
adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices         provided for in Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No
for competing products by applying to that value the          2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the abovementioned
rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No 115/              difference may be adjusted in accordance with Article
67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/              38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 , account being
67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or            taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ;
oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have
been offered in the largest quantities on the world           Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the
market during the period under consideration ;                market situation makes it necessary and in such a way
                                                              as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ;
                                                              whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it
                                                              becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ;
Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 115/
67/EEC, the price determined for colza, rape and
sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount            Whereas, if the subsidy system is to operate normally,
not exceeding the margin, as calculated in accordance         subsidies should be calculated on the following basis :
with that Article, where that margin may affect the
normal disposal of seeds harvested in the Community ;         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                   relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                   a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on the
                                                                   central rate,
Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for
the purpose of determining that margin are defined in         (') OJ No L 163 , 22. 6. 1983, p. 44.
Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no            (2) OJ No L 88 , 31 . 3 . 1984, p . 50 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
    these currencies recorded for a given period in                                 Article 1
    relation to the Community currencies referred to
    in the previous indent ;                                 The amount of the subsidy referred to in Article 27 of
                                                             Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be as set out in the
                                                             Annex hereto.
Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to
the offers and quotations known to the Commission                                   Article 2
that the subsidy on colza, rape and sunflower seeds
should be as set out in the Annex hereto,                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 May 1984.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 23 May 1984.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                 ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 23 May 1984 fixing the amount of the subsidy
                                               on oil seeds
                                                                                                         (ECU / 100 kg)
     CCT
   heading                         Description                                           Subsidy
      No
ex 12.01   Colza and rape seed                                                              0
ex 12.01   Sunflower seed                                                                4,980
                                                                                                         (ECU / 100 kg)
                                                                     Subsidy in the case of advance
     CCT                                                                fixing for the month of
   heading                Description
     No                                                 May    June          July      August    September   October
                                                        1984    1984         1984       1984        1984       1984
ex 12.01   Colza and rape seed                           0       0            0           0        0,838      5,958
ex 12.01   Sunflower seed                              4,980   4,875        4,822      2,669       2,787        —