CELEX: 31973D0192
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 June 1973 authorizing the Kingdom of Denmark to apply special intervention measures for rye

No L 194/20                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              16 . 7. 73
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 8 June 1973
              authorizing the Kingdom of Denmark to apply special intervention measures for rye
                                                  (Only the Danish text is authentic)
                                                            (73/ 192/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        the 1972/73 marketing year for !rye of bread­
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         making quality will be minimal in comparison with
                                                                      that granted for rye at the end of the previous
                                                                      marketing year; whereas, as compensation does not
                                                                      cover the whole of the difference between the prices
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    prevailing during one marketing year and the next,
 pean Economic Community ;                                            holders of rye of bread-making quality will be
                                                                      inclined to offer their stocks for intervention before
                                                                      31 May ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/
 EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organ­
 ization of the market in cereals, as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2), and in particular                    Whereas, so that the German intervention agency
 the second paragraph of Article 8 thereof ;                          should not be obliged to buy in before the end of
                                                                      the marketing year quantities of rye of bread-making
                                                                      quality which are out of proportion with those
Having regard to Council Regulation No 174/ 67/                       marketed, flat rate compensation should be granted
EEC (3 ) of 27 June 1967 on special intervention                      to Danish holders of rye of bread-making quality
measures for cereals, as amended by Regulation                        to induce them to retain the stocks in their mills until
 ( EEC) No 445/68 (4), and in particular Article 1                    31 July 1973 ;
thereof ;
Having regard to the request submitted by the King­                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
dom of Denmark to the Commission on 22 May                            are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 1973 describing the particularly difficult situation                 ment Committee for Cereals ;
experienced by Danish holders of rye of bread­
making quality at the end of the 1972/73 marketing
year, as a result of the introduction of the new price
system for rye for the 1973 /74 marketing year, and
requesting that special intervention measures be
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 applied ;
Whereas the stock of rye of bread-making quality
required by the Danish milling industry to ensure                                             Article 1
that it continues to operate normally during the
transition from one marketing year to the next is
generally about 20 000 metric tons ;
                                                                      In pursuance of Article 1 of Council Regulation No
                                                                      174/67/EEC, the Kingdom of Denmark may authorize
Whereas, as a single intervention price has been                      its intervention agency to take special intervention
fixed for rye with effect from 1 August 1973 ,                        measures for rye .
the amount of compensation granted at the end of
                                                                      Those measures shall take the form of the grant of
                                                                      compensation at a flat rate of 2·75 units of account
( x) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67 .                           per metric ton, up to a total quantity of 20 000 metric
(2)  OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 .
( 3) OJ No 130, 28 . 6. 1967, p . 2609/67 .                           tons, to holders whose stocks of rye of bread-making
(4)  OJ No L 91 , 12 . 4. 1968 , p . 3 .                              quality satisfy the requirements of Commission Regu
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lation (EEC ) No 1554/73 H of 7            June 1973 on the                                Article 3
conditions for the granting of              compensation in
respect of common wheat, rye                of bread-making          This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Den­
                                                                     mark .
quality and maize held in storage           at the end of the
1972/73 marketing year.
                                                                     Done at Brussels, 8 June 1973 .
                          Article 2
                                                                                                   For the Commission
The Kingdom of Denmark shall keep the Commission
                                                                                                       Tbe President
informed of the progress of the measures provided
for in this Decision .                                                                            François-Xavier ORTOLI
(*) OJ No L 156, 13 . 6 . 1973 , p . 13 .