CELEX: 31991R2312
Language: en
Date: 1991-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2312/91 of 31 July 1991 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

No L 213/36                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                    1 . 8 . 91
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2312/91
                                                        of 31 July 1991
                                        fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       market trend ; whereas offers and quotations recorded
                                                                  during the first 25 days of the month in question for
                                                                  quantities that can be delivered during the following
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            calendar month are to be used ; whereas the average world
 Economic Community,                                              market price thus determined is used to fix the aid rate
                                                                  applicable on the following month ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,
                                                                  Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in the
                                                                  case of offers and quotations not of the type referred to
                                                                  above ; whereas these adjustments were defined in Article
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78              3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30
of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the                  June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application
market in dried fodder ('), as last amended by Regulation         of the system of aid for dried fodder (6), as last amended
(EEC) No 2275/89 (2), and in particular Article 5 (3)             by Regulation (EEC) No 1757/90 Q ;
thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                  Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation
                                                                  (EEC) No 1417/78, when no offer or quotation can be
                                                                  used to determine the average world market price, that
Whereas, under Article 5 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No              price is determined on the basis of the sum of the value
 1117/78, when the guide price is higher than the average         of competing products ; whereas those products are
world market price, aid is granted for dried fodder as            defined in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 ;
described under Article 1 (b) and (c) of that Regulation
and obtained from fodder plants harvested in the
Community ; whereas that aid takes account of a
percentage of the difference between these two prices ;
                                                                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                  1417/78, when forward prices differ from that applying in
Whereas this percentage and the guide price were fixed
                                                                  the month when the application is lodged, the aid rate is
by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1627/91 (3) for the                adjusted by a correcting amount calculated from the trend
                                                                  of forward prices ;
 1991 /92 marketing year ;
Whereas the average world market price is determined for
a bulk pelleted product, delivered to Rotterdam, of the           Whereas, where the average world market price is deter­
standard quality for which the guide price has been fixed ;       mined in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 1417/78, the corrective amount must be equal to the
                                                                  difference between the average world market price and
                                                                  the average forward world market price determined by
Whereas, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 of             applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regula­
 19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried fodder (4), as last     tion (EEC) No 1528/78 and valid for delivery during a
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 111 0/89 (*), the average          month other than that in which the aid is introduced,
world market price for the products described in the first        adjusted by the percentage fixed under Article 5 (2) of
and third indents of Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No         Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 17/78 ; whereas where the average
 1117/78 is to be determined on the basis of the most
                                                                  forward world market price for one or more months
favourable actual purchase possibilities excepting those          cannot be determined by applying the criteria laid down
which cannot be considered representative of the real             in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1 528/78, the
                                                                  corrective amount must be fixed for the month or months
(') OJ  No L 142,  30. 5. 1978,  p. 1.                            in question at a level such that the aid is equal to zero ;
O   OJ  No L 218,  28. 7. 1989,  p. 1.
(3) OJ  No L 150,  15. 6. 1991 , p. 15.
(4) OJ  No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978,  p. 1.                            (6) OJ No L 179, 1 . 7. 1978, p. 10.
O   OJ  No L 118,  29. 4. 1989,  p. 1.                            O OJ No L 162, 28 . 6. 1990, p. 21 .
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Whereas, if the aid system is to operate normally, refunds         Spain the amount is to be adjusted by the difference,
should be calculated on the following basis ;                      multiplied by the percentage referred to in Article 5 (2) of
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­          Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78, between the guide price
      tion to each other at any given moment within a band         applied in Spain and the common guide price ;
      of 2,25 % , a conversion rate based on their central
                                                                   Whereas, as the result of the applications of all these
      rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in    provisions to the offers and quotations which the
      the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­      Commission has recorded, the rate of the additional aid
      tion (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­        for dried fodder must be fixed as indicated in the table
      tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (2),                                   annexed to this Regulation,
— for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
      average of the ecu rates published in the Official
     Journal of the European Communities, C series, over           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
      a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
      cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas the rate of the additional aid must be fixed once
per month so as to ensure application of the aid from the          The rate of the aid referred to in Article 5 (3) of Regula­
first day of the month following the date of its fixing ;          tion (EEC) No 1117/78 is fixed in the Annex to this
                                                                   Regulation.
Whereas, pursuant to Articles 120 (2) and 306 (2) of the
Act of Accession, the additional aid applicable in these
two Member States is to be adjusted by an amount equal                                      Article 2
to the amount of customs duties on imports of these
products from third countries ; whereas, in addition, in           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1991 .
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 31 July 1991 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 Ì2) OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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                                                                      ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1991 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
Aid applicable from 1st August 1991 to dried fodder :
                                                                                                                               (ECU/tonne)
                                                  Fodder dehydrated by artificial heat drying       Fodder otherwise dried
                                                            Protein concentrates
                                                                                       Other                              Other
                                                   Spain          Portugal            Member  Portugal                  Member
                                                                                       States                             States
Aid (')                                           78,395           77,778             78,395  44,838                     45,455
Aid in case of advance fixing for the month of :
                                                                                                                               (ECU/tonne)
September 1991                                    77,765           77,143             77,765  44,203                     44,825
October 1991                                      82,022           81,431             82,022  48,491                     49,082
November 1991                                     81,456           80,862             81,456  47,922                     48,516
December 1991                                     81,456           80,862             81,456  47,922                     48,516
January 1992                                      75,679           75,041             75,679  42,101                     42,739
February 1992 (')                                  0,000            0,000              0,000   0,000                      0,000
March 1992 (')                                     0,000            0,000              0,000   0,000                      0,000
(') In accordance with Article 6 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78.