CELEX: 51976PC0251
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Date: 1976-06-03
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL on special measures for linseed (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak---     COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                       COM(76 ) 251 final
                                                       Brussels , 3 June 1976 ,
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                           Proposal for a
                   REGULATION (-EEC ) CF THE COUNCIL
     /
         on special measures for linseed
         ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
CCM(76) 251 final      \
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 * Article 2 ( 3 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) NO 569/ 76 provides that the Counoil shall lay
    down the oriteria for the determination of the average world market price for
    linseed and the general rules according the granting and checking of aid for those
    seeds .
    This is the aim of this proposal .
2 . For the fixing of the average world market prioe the Commission has been mainly-
    inspired by existing measures for other oilseeds ( the consideration of the most
    favourable representative offers on the principtl markets - fixing the price of the
    seeds in veao with a standard quality at Rotterdam ).
    However , the seed price is to be determined on the basis of the value of the
    oil and oilcake t in the absenoe of offers and quotations as well as when the consi­
    deration of offers and quotations for seed would run the risk of not allowing
    the sale of the Community production of seeds to take plaoe in normal market
    conditions .
    The indicative yield which is used to establish the produotion to which a possible
    aid is granted shall be determined more particularly in terms of a survey of the
    real yields obtained in the main produotion zones .
    As a control the Member States shall institute a oheok of the information featuring
    in the request for aid.
 ---pagebreak---                                       Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC ) No
                                   of
on special measures for linseed
tHE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMONITLES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 569/76      of 15 March 1976 laying down
speoial measures for linseed           and in particular Article 2(3) thereof t                '
                                                                                             /
Having regard to the proposal from the Commisdon,
Whereas Article 2(3 ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 569/76 requires that criteria for the
 determination of
the average world market price , together with general rules for granting the subsidy and
for the control of Beeds iiarvested within the Community , should be laid dow?;
Whereas the           average world market price must be based on the most
favourable purchasing terms available on that market ;
Whereas relevant figures should be those recorded during the
marketing period for Community seeds          for       offers on the world market and prices
 quoted on the major international exchanges ; whereas , however, those offers which are not
 considered representative of the true trend of the market should be ignored ;
 Whereas , if there are no representative offers or quotations for linseed , the world
 market prioe should be            based on            the value of the products resulting
 from the prooessing of this seed ; whereas , if there is a substantial drop
 in the quotations for linseedoil and linseedcake compared with those for linseed, the worli
 market price for linseed should also be based on this value in order to allow
 the sale of the Community linseed production under normal market conditions {
 Whereas , to enable the system of aid to work properly, the average
 prioe must be recorded for a Community frontier orossing point ; whereas in fixing
 this point aocount Bhould be taken of the extent to whioh it is representative for
  imports of linseed and therefore Rotterdam should be chosen ;
 whereas offers and quota-lions will have to be adjusted if they relate to a different
  frontier crossing point t
  ( 1 ) OJ No L 67 , I5.3.I976, p. 29
 ---pagebreak---                                       - 2 -
 Whereas such adjustments should also be made if there is     any variation from the
presentation and quality specified       when          fixing the       prioe |.
Whereas the producer Member States should "be required to set up the oontrol arrangements
necessary to ensure that the subsidy system, works properly j
Whereas under Artiole 2 (2) of the said Regulation the subsidy is to be granted for a
production figure obtained by applying to the surface areas sown and harvested an indica-
yield that may be differentiated , taking into account the characteristics of the flax
produced and the yield ascertained in themajar producing areas in the Community} whereas ,
 to ensure that the subsidy system is properly applied ,           the indicative yield
should be determined by referenoe primarly to yields ascertained by random sampling
in the prinoipal produotion areas :
HAS ADOPTED THIS REOTLATKH i
 ---pagebreak---                                            Article 1
  1 « The average world marked price for linseed referred to in Article 2 of Regulation
      ( EEC ) N o 569 /76 shall "be determined in the light of the offers on the world market
      and the prices quoted on the major international exchanges , recorded over the most
      representative marketing period for Community seeds®
 2® The averago world market price shall "be "based on the average of the
     most favourable offers and quotations recorded during the said period , excluding
     offors and quotations which cannot Ire regarded as representative of the true trend
     of the max-ket .
3 « Where the offers and quotations for linseed cannot be uEcd as a oasis for determi­
     ning the world market price or where the consideration of such offers and quotations
                       v/ould not allow the Community product-ion of linseed to be sold in nor­
     mal market conditions , the world market price for linseed shall be "based on
                 the value of average quantities of oil and oil-cake resulting from the
     processing of 100 kilogrammes of linseed in the Community less an amount correspon­
     ding to the cosit of processing these seeds into oil and oil-oaka »
                                        Article 2
The average world market price shall ba determined for loose seeds of standard quality
delivered at Rotterdam .
The necessary adjustments shall be made where offers and quotations do not satisfy
the requirements referred to in the first paragraph *
                                        Article 3
Producer Member States shall set up a system of control to ensure , in the case of each
linseed grower to whom aid is granted under Article 2 ( l ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 569/76 »
                          that the crop area in respect of which a subsidy was applied
for oorreeponds to the area on which linseed was actually              sown and harvest ed »
                                        Article 4
The indicative yield referred to in Artiole 2 ( 2 ) of Regulation ( EE®) No 569/ 76
shall be determined by referenoe primarily to the yields per hectare ascertained by
random sampling in the main production areas of the Community .
 ---pagebreak---                                  Artide 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Communities *
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and direotly applicable in all
Member States *
Done  at                                                   For the Council