CELEX: 31985R1496
Language: en
Date: 1985-05-23 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1496/85 of 23 May 1985 fixing the amounts of aid for fibre flax and hemp and the amounts withheld to finance measures to promote the use of flax fibre for the 1985/86 marketing year

10 . 6 . 85                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 151 / 21
                                               COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1496 / 85
                                                                of 23 May 1985
                     fixing the amounts of aid for fibre flax and hemp and the amounts withheld to finance measures
                                        to promote the use of flax fibre for the 1985 / 86 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                   of aid for financing Community measures to encourage the
                                                                            use of fibre flax is to be fixed at the time when the aid is fixed
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                       for the marketing year in question ; whereas it is to be fixed in
Economic Community , and in particular Article 43                           the light of trends on the market in flax, the amount of the aid
thereof,                                                                    for flax and the cost of the measures to be introduced;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 1308 / 70 of                  Whereas application of the abovementioned criteria entails
29 June 1970 on the common organization of the market in                    fixing the amount of the aid and the part of the aid intended
flax and hemp (*), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC)                     for financing measures to promote the use of flax fibre at the
No 1430 / 82 ( 2), and in particular Article 4 ( 3 ) thereof,               level mentioned below ,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1432 / 82 of
 18 May 1982 concerning measures to promote the use of flax                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
fibre for the marketing years from 1982 / 83 to 1986 / 87 ( 3 ),
and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 2 ( 2 )
thereof,                                                                                                  Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ( 4 ),                    For the 1985 / 86 marketing year , the aid provided for in
                                                                            Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 1308 / 70 shall be :
Having regard            to   the opinion       of the     European         ( a ) as regards flax: 355,09 ECU per hectare ;
Parliament ( 5 ),
                                                                            ( b ) as regards hemp : 322,48 ECU per hectare .
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308 / 70
provides that the amount of aid for flax grown mainly for
fibre and for hemp grown in the Community shall be fixed                                                  Article 2
 annually ;
                                                                            For the 1985 / 86 marketing year, the portion of the aid for
Whereas , in accordance with Article 4 ( 2 ) of that Regulation ,           flax to be used to finance the measures to promote the use of
this amount shall be fixed per hectare of area sown and                     flax fibre referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
harvested so as to ensure an even balance between the volume                1423 / 82 shall be fixed at 22,85 ECU per hectare .
of production required in the Community and the amount
that can be marketed ; whereas it must be fixed , taking into
account the price for flax and hemp fibres and seeds on the                                               Article 3
world market ^ the price for other competing natural products
and the guide price for linseed ;                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                            following its publication in the Official Journal of the
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 2 ( 2 ) of                       European Communities.
Regulation (EEC ) No 1423 / 82 provides that , for marketing
years subsequent to the 1982 / 83 marketing year, the portion               It shall apply from 1 August 1985 .
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States .
                     Done at Brussels , 23 May 1985 .
                                                                                             For the Council
                                                                                               The President
                                                                                              C. SIGNORILE
(')  OJ  No  L 146 , 4 . 7 . 1970 , p . 1 .
( z) OJ  No  L 162 , 12 . 6 . 1982 , p. 27 .
(3)  OJ  No  L 162 , 12 . 6 . 1982 , p. 19 .
(4)  OJ  No  C 67 , 14 . 3 . 1985 , p . 28 .
(s)  OJ  No  C 94 , 15 . 4 . 1985 .