CELEX: 31973R1966
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1966/73 of the Council of 17 July 1973 fixing, for the 1973/74 marketing year, the monthly price increases for cereals and wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

21 . 7. 73                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 201 /5
                                    REGULATION (EEC) No 1966/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                           of 17 July 1973
               fixing, for the 1973/74 marketing year, the monthly price increases for cereals and
                                                 wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              making, a price scale should be fixed stretching
                                                                      over eight months and beginning on 1 October ;
                                                                      whereas, also, account should be taken of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    special uses of rye in certain Community regions
pean Economic Community ;                                              and price scales for that cereal should,
                                                                      consequently, be fixed to begin on 1 September and
                                                                       stretching over nine months ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (*) of 13. June 1967 on the common organi­
zation of the market in cereals, as last amended by                    Whereas the monthly increases in the threshold
EEC Regulation 1346/73 (2), .and in particular                         prices for other feedgrain must be fixed at the same
Article 6 ( 2) thereof ;                                              levell and for the same period as for barley and
                                                                       maize in order to maintain for the whole of the
                                                                       marketing year the established ratio between the
Having regard to the proppsal from the Commis­                         threshold prices for the various types of feedgrain ;
sion ;
                                                                       Whereas, because of the later beginning of the
Whereas, when the number and the amount of the                         maize marketing year, the system applicable # to
 monthly .price increases and the first month during                   barley should not be used for that cereal and the
 which these are to apply are fixed, the storage costs                date of 1 November should be fixed for the begin­
 and interest charges for storing cereals in the                       ning of the monthly increases in the intervention
Community, the need to ensure- that the disposal of                    price, the amount of which should be fixed at a
 stocks of cereals conforms to market requirements                     higher level than that for barley in order not to
and the necessity that the relationship between the                    change the relationship at present existing between
market prices of the different categories of feedgrain                the intervention prices of barley and maize ;
shouild be taken into account ;
Whereas to this end it should be laid down that the
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
monthly increases for soft and durum wheat should
commence on 1 September, and the total of such
increases, for common wheat, be fixed at 10-70 u.a .
per metric ton ; whereas, in view of the higher costs                                            Article 1
for durum wheat, the monthly increases for that
cereal be fixed at a higher level than that for
common wheat ;                                                        For the 1973 /74 marketing year the monthly
                                                                       increases to be applied to the target prices, thres­
                                                                      hold prices and intervention prices for the products
Whereas, since the selling period for barley and                       listed in Article 1 ( a ), ( b ) and ( c) of Regulation No
maize is shorter than that for cerealls used for bread­                120/67/EEC are fixed by this Regulation .
C1 ) OJ No 117 , 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67 .
 ( 2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p. 8 .
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                                                        Article 2
             The monthly increases to be applied to the target price and the threshold price for
              common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley and maize, operative for the first month of
             the marketing year, shall be as follows :
                                                                                     (units of accountII 000 kg)
                                      I Common           Durum
                                                                     P.ye        Barley             Maize
                                     j     wheat         wheat
            August
            September                        1-07          1-13     0-96       ,   —                  —
             October                         2-14          2-26     1-92          0-85               0-85
            November                         3-21          3-39     2-88          1-70               1-70
            December                         4-28          4-52     3-84          2-55               2-55
            January                         5-35           5-65     4-80          3-40               3-40
            February                         6-42          6-78     5-76          4-25               4-25
            March                        •   7-49          7-91     6 -72         5-10               5-10
            April                            8-56          9-04     7-68          5-95               5-95
            May                             9-63         10-17      8-64          6-80               6-80     '
            June                           10-70         11-30      8-64          6-80               6-80
            July                           10-70       ' 11-30      8-64          6-80               6-80
                                                         Article 3
             The monthly increases to be applied to the intervention price for common wheat,
             durum wheat, rye, barley and maize, operative 'for the first month of the marketing
             year, shall be as follows :
                                                                                   ( units of account!1 000 kg)
                                         Common          Durum
                                           wheat         wheat       Rye         Barley             Maize
            August                                                                                  ·_
            September                       1-07          1-13      0-96           —                  —
            October                        2-14           2-26      1-92          0-85                —
            November                       3-21           3-39      2-88          1-70               1-04
            December                       4-28           4-52      3-84          2-55               1-04
            January                        5-35           5-65      4-80          3-40               2-08
            February                       6-42           6-78      5-76          4-25               3-12
            March                          7-49           7-91      6-72         5-10                4-16 '
            April                          8-56          9-04       7-68         5-95                5-20
            May                            9-63         10-17       8-64         6-80                6-24
            June                            —              —         .—            —
                                                                                                     6-24
            July                            —                                                        6-24
                                                        Article 4
             1.   The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for oats, buck wheat,
            millet, canary seed and sorghum , operative for the first month of the marketing year,
            shall be the same as the monthly increases applicable to the threshold price for barley.
            2.    The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for meslin , operative
             for the first month of the marketing year, shall be the same as the monthly increases
             applicable to the threshold price for common wheat.
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                                                     Article 5
            The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for wheat, meslin or rye
            flour and to tihe threshold price for groats anid meal of common or of durum wheat,
            operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows :
                                                                                      (units of accountII 000 kg,
                                          Wheat and                        Groats and            Groats and
                                           mesiin         Rye flour         meal of                meal of
                                            flour                        common wheat           durum wheat
           August
           September                         1-50            1-34             1-50                   1-78
           October                           3-00           2-68              3-00                   3-56
           November                          4-50           4-02              4-50                   5-34
           December                          6-00           5-36              6-00                   7-12
           January                           7-50           6-70              7-50                   8-90
           February                          9-00           8-04              9-00                  10-68
           March                           10-50            9-38             10-50                  12-46
           April                           12-00           10-72             12-00                  14-24     .
           May                             13-50           12-06             13-50                  16-02
           June                            15-00           13-40             15-00                  17-80
           July                            15-00           13-40             15-00                  17-80
           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directily applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 17 July 1973 .
                                                                        For the Council
                                                                          The President
                                                                       lb FREDERIKSEN