CELEX: 31983R2866
Language: en
Date: 1983-10-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2866/83 of 13 October 1983 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

14 . 10 . 83                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 282/33
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2866/83
                                                          of 13 October 1983
                                        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
                                                                      Commission Regulation No 225/67/EEC of 28 June
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 1967 on detailed rules for determining the world
Economic Community,
                                                                      market price for oil seeds Q, as last amended by Regu­
                                                                      lation (EEC) No 2040/83 (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 1413/82 (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
                                                                      insurance costs as compared with a product delivered
the target price for oil seeds for the 1983/84 marketing              cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take
year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 1 59 1 /83 (3)
                                                                      account only of the loading, transport and insurance
and (EEC) No 1 592/83 (4) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu­               costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas,
lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market
                                                                      finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam
price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing                   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 162, 12.    6 . 1982,  p. 6 .                          of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex
(3) OJ  No   L 163, 22.    6 . 1983 , p. 40 .
(4  OJ  No   L 163 , 22.   6 . 1983 , p. 42.
(*) OJ   No  111 , 10 . 6.  1967, p.  2196/67.                        Q OJ No 136, 30 . 6 . 1967, p. 2919/67.
(6) OJ  No   L 215, 23.    7. 1982,   p. 6.                            8 OJ No L 200, 23 . 7. 1983 , p. 23 .
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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
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used       amount ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regula­
as a basis for determining the world market price, that      tion (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying
price should be determined on the basis of the value         down detailed rules for the application of the subsidy
of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting      system for oil seeds provides that such adjustment
from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within          should involve increasing or reducing the amount of
the Community less an amount corresponding to the            subsidy applicable on the day on which the applica­
cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ;       tion was lodged by the corrective amount and the
whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into            difference between the target prices mentioned in
consideration for the purposes of the calculation are        Article 35 of 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 15/67/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
                                                             2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the abovementioned
for competing products by applying to that value the
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 pr6ducts 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
market during the period under consideration ;               Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the
                                                             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
with that Article, where that margin may affect the          subsidies should be calculated on the following basis :
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
Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for            central rate ,
the purpose of determining that margin are defined in
Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/ EEC ; whereas no          (') OJ No L 163 , 22. 6 . 1983, p. 44.
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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                               Article 2
the offers and quotations known to the Commission
that the subsidy on colza, rape and sunflower seeds          This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 October
should be as set out in the Annex hereto,                    1983 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 13 October 1983 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Poul DALSAGER
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                     ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 13 October 1983 fixing the amount of the subsidy
                                                   on oil seeds
                                                                                                              (ECU / 100 kg)
     CCT
   heading                             Description                                            Subsidy
      No
ex 12.01       Colza and rape seed                                                             7,677
ex 12.01       Sunflower seed                                                                 15,987
                                                                                                              (ECU/ 100 kg)
                                                                          Subsidy in the case of advance
    CCT                                                                      fixing for the month of
   heading                    Description
     No                                                    October November    December     January   February     March
                                                            1983     1983         1983       1984        1984       1984
ex 12.01       Colza and rape seed                          7,677    8,197        8,717      7,852       8,372      8,892
ex 12.01       Sunflower seed                              15,987   16,602      17,217      17,766     17,920        —