CELEX: 51988PC0084(05)
Language: en
Date: 1988-02-27
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 777/87 AS REGARDS THE PERIOD OF APPLICATION OF THE INTERVENTION MEASURES FOR BUTTER AND SKIMMED-MILK POWDER

No C 84/26                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  31. 3. 88
2. Article 2(1) is replaced by the following:                     4. In Article 5, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
    ' 1 . Compensation shall be paid to the producers                 '2. At the end of the fourth 12-month period and at the
    concerned for the quantities withdrawn. Such compens-             end of each of the following periods of application of the
    ation shall be:                                                   additional-levy arrangements, the Commission shall
                                                                      assess the results obtained from the application of
    — for the fourth and fifth 12-month periods, 10 ECU               Articles 3 and 4 and shall, if necessary, submit
         per 100 kg,                                                  appropriate proposals to the Council.'
    — for the sixth 12-month period, 8 ECU per 100 kg,
    — for the seventh 12-month period, 7 ECU per 100 kg,          5. Article 8 is deleted.
    — for the eighth 12-month period, 6 ECU per 100 kg.
                                                                                              Article 2
    For each 12-month period, the compensation shall be
    paid to those entitled during the last quarter of the         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
    relevant 12-month period.'                                    following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                  European Communities.
3. In the second subparagraph of Article 4, 'in the fourth        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
    and fifth 12-month periods' is deleted.                       applicable in all Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 as regards
                the period of application of the intervention measures for butter and skimmed-milk powder
                                                      COM(88) 84 final
                            (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 February 1988)
                                                         (88/C 84/15)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          of the fifth 12-month period of application of the
                                                                  supplementary levy arrangements provided for in Article 5c
                                                                  of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68; whereas, in view of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                  extension of those arrangements for an additional period of
Economic Community,
                                                                  three 12-month periods, the period of application of the
                                                                  measures provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 777/87
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of            should also be extended,
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in
milk and milk products (l), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No .../88, and in particular the first subparagraph of
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 7a(l) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 of 16
March 1987 modifying the intervention arrangements for
butter and skimmed-milk powder (2) provides that the              Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 is hereby amended as
measures covered by that Regulation are to apply to the end       follows:
(!) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ No L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.                               1. Article 1(2) is replaced by the following:
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    '2. The buying in of skimmed-milk powder provided                                         Article 2
    for in Article 7(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 may
    be suspended as soon as the quantities offered for             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
    intervention in the period 1 March to 31 August each           following its publication in the Official Journal of the
    year exceed 100 000 tonnes.'                                   European Communities.
2. In Article 2, 'of the fifth period' is replaced by 'of the      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
    eighth period'.                                                applicable in all Member States.
                  Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the
                                        common organization of the market in cereals
                                                       COM(88) 84 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 February 1988)
                                                          (88/C 84/16)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           better control of production could be achieved by fixing a
                                                                   maximum guaranteed quantity above which certain
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              measures to stabilize the market in cereals and thereby to
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,          curb expenditure in the sector in question are taken;
                                                                   whereas, to that end, an additional co-responsibility levy to
                                                                   be collected provisionally at the beginning of the marketing
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 year, reimbursement of which in full or in part will be
                                                                   decided, as the case may be, after it is established that the
In cooperation with the European Parliament,                       maximum guaranteed quantity has not been exceeded or
                                                                   that the amount by which it has been exceeded is lower than
                                                                   a certain percentage should be introduced; whereas,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
                                                                   moreover, where the maximum guaranteed quantity is
Committee,                                                         exceeded in a marketing year, account should be taken of
                                                                   that for the fixation of prices for the following marketing
Whereas, in view of the growing imbalance in the                   year;
Community between supply and demand in cereals, certain
measures to restore sound conditions in the sector in
question were introduced by Council Regulation (EEC) No            Whereas the maximum guaranteed quantity must be
2727/75 on the common organization of the market in                established so that it reflects the Community's total cereal
cereals (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3989/          requirements;
87 ( 2 ); whereas those measures involve in particular the
introduction of a co-responsibility levy determined by
taking account of the various factors which will enable a          Whereas, in view of the difficulties arising in the
definition to be given of that production which requires           application of the co-responsibility levy arrangements
financial support in order to ensure its disposal and allow        provided for in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75,
an assessment to be made of the resulting charges on the           provision should be made for that levy and the additional
budget, bearing additionally in mind imports of cereal             levy to be collected throughout the Community at the time
substitute products on the Community market;                       of placing on the market or of sale to intervention by
                                                                   producers;
Whereas those measures are not however liable to be
sufficient to control production the increase in which may         Whereas, when the co-responsibility levy was introduced, a
lead to an uncontrollable rise in expenditure; whereas             system of direct aid for small producers of cereals was also
                                                                   instituted with the aim, having regard to the social
                                                                   implications of the measure, of offsetting the effect of the
(!) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.                                co-responsibility levy on their incomes; whereas that
(2) OJ No L 377, 31. 12. 1987, p. 1.                               system must be adjusted on the one hand to ensure that the