CELEX: 31966R0130
Language: en
Date: 1966-07-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 130/66/EEC of the Council of 26 July 1966 on the financing of the common agricultural policy

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                                REGULATION No 130/66/EEC OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 26 July 1966
                                   on the financing of the common agricultural policy
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                            No 25 so that from 1 July 1967 'the Fund will finance
 COMMUNITY,                                                     refunds on exports to third countries calculated on
                                                                the basis of the gross quantities of exports ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
 European Economic Community, and in particular                 Whereas the increase in the contribution to the
 Articles 43 and 200 (3 ) thereof;                              expenditure eligible under the Guarantee Section
                                                                involves, under the 'one third' rule laid down in
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 25 1 on the             Article 5 (2) of Regulation No 25, an increase in the
 financing of the common agricultural policy;                   amount to be assigned to the Guidance Section ;
                                                                whereas in view of the increase in the expenditure of
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;            the Guarantee Section which may be expected from 1
                                                                July 1967, a ceiling should be fixed from the
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                   accounting period 1967/68 for expenditure under the
Parliament;                                                     Guidance Section, without prejudice to any possible
                                                                increase ;
Whereas the system laid down in Articles 3 to 8 of
Regulation No 25 must be supplemented by                        Whereas account should be taken, in connection with
provisions relating in particular to the contribution of        actions    under    the   Guidance     Section,   of the
the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee                unfavourable situation of Italy as regards agricultural
fund to the expenditure eligible under the Guarantee            structure and of the need, acknowledged in the
Section, and to the receipts which should finance the           Protocol on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, for
Fund for the period from 1 July 1965 to the end of              improvement in        the   agricultural   structure  of
the transitional period;                                        Luxembourg ;
Whereas, account being taken of the progress already            Whereas Article 18 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No
made and the agreements reached concerning the                  17/64/EEC2 on the conditions for granting aid from
progress to be made over the next two years in the              the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
implementation of the common market and the                     Fund has fixed a maximum for aid from the Fund at
common agricultural policy, the contribution of the             25 per cent of the investment made; whereas from
Fund to the expenditure eligible under the Guarantee            the accounting period 1967/68 provision should be
Section should be increased systematically for the              made for the possibility of increasing that aid for
years 1965 /66 and 1966/67 and it should be decided             certain categories of projects to be defined within the
that from the year 1967/68 the contribution of the              framework of Community Programmes, account
Fund will cover the total expenditure eligible under            being taken in particular of the state of the
the Guarantee Section ;                                         agricultural structures of Italy and Luxembourg ;
Whereas in view of the progress made, expenditure              Whereas steps should be taken to counteract the
incurred within the framework of the common                    effects of the delay in implementing the common
organisation of agricultural markets should be                 organisation of the markets, involving the financial
increasingly borne by the Fund by changing the                 responsibility of the Community, in olives, olive oil,
criterion laid down in Article 3 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation       fruit and vegetables, and sugar, by allotting to certain
1 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p . 991/62.                             2 OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p. 586/64.
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Member States amounts for financing measures in               Community is responsible for financing, the eligible
favour of those sectors ;                                     expenditure shall be taken over, as soon as the
                                                              common organisation of each market is implemented,
Whereas provision should also be made for the                 according to the rule laid down in paragraph 1 .
Community to assume financial responsibility in the
tobacco sector for the year 1967/68 ;
                                                                                      Article 3
Whereas in respect of the receipts of the Fund
provision should be made, for the years 1965/66 and           The expenditure of the Fund shall be covered by
1967/68 , for a scale which would take account of the         financial  contributions from the Member States
need to limit the contributions of certain Member             determined according to the following scale:
States ;
                                                                                               Accounting  Accounting
                                                                                                 period      period
Whereas from 1 July 1967 the contributions of                                                   1965/66      1966/67
Member States to the expenditure of the Guarantee
Section of the Fund should be calculated on the basis         Belgium                             7-95        7-95
of the levies in relation to third countries collected        Germany                           31-67        30-83
by each Member State, and for the remainder of that
                                                              France                            32-58        29-26
expenditure, as far as is necessary, a fixed scale, valid
also for the expenditure of the Guidance Section,             Italy                              18-00       22-00
should be applied ;                                           Luxembourg                          0-22        0-2-2   ■
                                                              Netherlands                         9-58 '      9-74
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                        Article 1                                                    Article 4
The system of financing the common agricultural                1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of
policy by means of the European Agricultural                  Article 11 (2) and Articles 13 to 22 of Regulation No
Guidance and Guarantee Fund (hereinafter called the            17/64/EEC, an amount of 45 000 000 units of
'Fund') shall, for the period from 1 July 1965 to the         account shall be paid in advance to the Italian
end of the transitional period, comprise two stages :         Republic for the year 1965/66 ( 1967 budget) from the
                                                              resources of the Guidance Section of the Fund, for
— 1 July 1965 to 30 June 1967, and                            the purpose of making structural improvements in
                                                              the production and marketing of olives, olive oil,
— 1 July 1967 to the end of the transitional period.          fruit and vegetables.
                                                              2.    The Italian Republic shall be entitled to a share
                        TITLE I
                                                              of the amounts remaining at the disposal of the
                                                              Guidance Section of the Fund, under the conditions
System for the stage from 1 July 1965 to 30 June              which are operative and upon the same basis as the
                          1967                                other Member States .
                        Article 2
                                                              3.    The Italian Republic shall, before the end of the
                                                              transitional period, submit to the Commission one or
1.    For products subject on 1 July 1965 to the              more reports, accompanied by supporting documents,
common organisation of markets, involving the                 on the expenditure incurred in respect of the
financial responsibility of the Community, the                measures referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article
contribution of the Guarantee Section of the Fund to          from 1 November 1965 for olives and olive oil, and
expenditure eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) (a), (b) and       from 1 January 1966 for fruit and vegetables.
(c) of Regulation No 25 shall from that date be fixed
at :
                                                                                     Article 5
— six-tenths for the accounting period 1965/66,
— seven-tenths for the accounting period 1966/67 .            1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of
                                                              Articles 2 to 8 of Regulation No 17/64/EEC and of
2. For products in respect of which a common                  Article 2 of this Regulation, expenditure by the
organisation of markets applies after 1 July 1965 and         Kingdom of Belgium during the 1965 /66 marketing
before 1 July 1967, and to the extent to which the           year on marketing sugar shall be reimbursed by the
         ft
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Guarantee Section of the Fund ; such reimbursement                     down in the Regulations on individual products
may not exceed an amount of 4 000 000 units of                         on the basis of
account . .
                                                                         ( i ) the rate of refund of the Member State whose
                                                                               average refund is the lowest, and
2.       The expenditure referred to in paragraph 1 of
this Article is the subject of the application for                     ( ii ) the net quantities exported up to and during
reimbursement submitted by the Kingdom of Belgium                              the accounting period 1966/67 and the gross
in pursuance of Article 9 of Regulation No                                     quantities exported subsequently.'
17/64/EEC and of the decision to grant aid from the
Fund taken by the Commission in pursuance of                      2. The words 'the net quantities' in the first
Article 10 of that Regulation for the accounting                  subparagraph of Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
period 1 965 /66.                                                 17/64/EEC shall be replaced by the words 'the net
                                                                  quantities and, from the accounting period 1967/68 ,
                           Article 6                              the gross quantities '.
                                                                  The word 'net' in Article 2 (4) and in the first and
1 . The financial responsibility of the Community                 second sentences of the last subparagraph of Article 4
shall continue to be guaranteed for the year 1966/67              (3 ) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC shall be deleted.
until the implementation of the common organisation
of the markets in sugar and olive oil and of the
                                                                                               Article 9 1
supplementary provisions concerning the common
organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables .
                                                                  The following subparagraph shall be added to Article
                                                                  5 (2) of Regulation No 25 :
2.       The Council, acting in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 43 of the Treaty, shall                 'However, from the . accounting period 1967/68,
take the necessary decisions to ensure effective                       the contribution of the Fund to expenditure
assumption of this responsibility for amounts at least                 eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) ( d ) of this Regulation ,-
equal to those of the preceding year.                                  determined in accordance with the above
                                                                       subparagraph, may not exceed an annual amount
                                                                       of 285 000 000 units of account. This amount
                           TITLE II                                    may be increased by the Council acting in
                                                                       accordance with the procedure laid down in
            Rules for the stage from 1 July 1967                       Article 43 of the Treaty.'
             to the end of the transitional period
                                                                                               Article 10
                           Article 7
                                                                  The first indent of Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
1 . In respect of products for which a common                     17/64/EEC shall be supplemented as follows :
organisation of markets, involving the financial                       'however, from the accounting period 1967/68 for
responsibility of the Community, already exists on 1                   certain kinds of projects set out in the
July 1967, the contribution from the Guarantee                         Community Programmes provided for in Article
Section of the Fund shall, from that date, cover all                   16 of this Regulation, they may be increased up to
the expenditure eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) (a), (b)                a maximum of 45% ;'
and (c) of Regulation No 25 .
                                                                                              Article 11
2 . In respect of other products, any eligible
expenditure shall be taken over in accordance with
the rule laid down in paragraph 1 from the time                   1 . The expenditure of the Guarantee Section of the
when the common organisation of markets in those                  Fund shall be covered by financial contributions from
products begins to apply.                                         the Member States calculated, for the first part, in
                                                                  proportion to the levies in relation to third countries
                                                                  collected by each Member State, and, for the second
                           Article 8                              part, as far as is necessary, according to a fixed scale.
1 . The following shall be substituted for Article 3              2.         The first part of the contributions of Member
( 1 ) ( a) of Regulation No 25 :                                  States shall be equal to 90% of the total amount of
                                                                  the levies in relation to third countries collected by
      '(a) Refunds on exports to third countries,                 Member States during the accounting period in
      calculated in accordance with the provisions laid           question.
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3.    The second part of the contributions of                  Guidance Section of the Fund under the conditions
Member States shall be calculated according to the             which are operative and on the same basis as the
following scale :                                              other Member States .
            Belgium                        8-1
            Germany                      31-2                  3.    The Italian Government shall, ' before 1 July
                                                               1967, communicate to the Commission the
            France                       32                    programme of measures which it proposes to adopt
                                                               in order to achieve the objective referred to in
            Italy                        20-3
                                                               paragraph 1 . The Commission shall obtain the
            Luxembourg                     0-2                 observations of the other Member States and where
                                                               appropriate make any recommendations it considers
           Netherlands                   . 8-2                 expedient to the Italian Government.
4. For the purposes of this Article, 'levies in                The Italian Republic shall, before the end of the
relation to third countries' means levies and charges
other than customs duties introduced in trade with ,
                                                               transitional period, submit to the Commission a
third countries in accordance with Article 43 of the
                                                               report, accompanied by supporting documents, on
                                                               expenditure incurred within the framework of that
Treaty.
                                                               programme from 1 July 1967 in respect of the
The list of charges other than customs duties                  measures referred to in paragraph 1 .
introduced in pursuance of the Regulations already in
force instituting common organisation of markets
which have been declared identical with levies in                                      TITLE III
relation to third countries is set out in the Annex to
this Regulation.
                                                                                 Special provisions
In future Regulations on the common organisation of
markets the Council shall declare which charges                                       Article 13
other than customs duties are identical with levies in
relation to third countries .                                  1 . By way of derogation from the provision of
                                                               Articles 11 to 22 of Regulation No 17/64/EEC, an
5 . The expenditure of the Guidance Section of the             amount of 8 000 000 units of account shall be paid to
Fund shall be covered by financial contributions from          the Italian Republic from the resources of the
Member States, calculated according to the scale laid          Guidance Section of the Fund (accounting period
down in paragraph 3 of this Article.                           1964/65 ) in reimbursement of expenditure during the
                                                               1964/65 marketing year on production and
                        Article 12                             marketing of olives and olive oil.
1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of                2 . The Italian Republic shall be entitled to a share
Article 11 (2) and of Articles 13 to 22 of Regulation          of any amounts remaining at the disposal of the
No 17/64/EEC, an amount of 15 000 000 units of                 Guidance Section of the Fund, under the conditions
account shall be paid to the Italian Republic ¥or the          which are operative and on the same basis as the
year 1967/68 ( 1969 budget) from the resources of the          other Member States .
Guidance Section of the Fund, for the purpose of
making structural improvements in the production               3.    The Italian Republic shall submit       to the
and marketing of raw tobacco.                                  Commission one or more reports, accompanied by
                                                               supporting documents, on the expenditure referred to
2.    The Italian Republic shall be entitled to a share        in paragraph 1 with a view to the payment of the
of any amounts remaining at the disposal of the                amount stated in that paragraph.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 26 July 1966.
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                      L. DE BLOCK
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                                                       ANNEX
                            List referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 11 (4)
    1 . Amounts to be added to the levies :
        ( a) premiums provided for at the time of the advance fixing of levies :
             — cereals (Article 17 (2) of Council Regulation No 191 and Article 1 (2) of Council
                 Regulation No 63/65/EEC2),
             — rice (Article 11 (2) and (3) of Council Regulation No 16/64/EEC3);
        (b) additional amounts provided for with a view to the application of the sluice-gate price :
             — pigmeat (Article 7 (3) of Council Regulation No 204),
             — eggs (Article 6 (3 ) of Council Regulation No 215),
             — poultrymeat (Article 6 (3) of Council Regulation No 226) ;
        ( c) additional amounts and additional partial amounts provided for in certain cases :
             — in respect of products processed from cereals , milk products and rice (Article 14 (2)
                 of Regulation No 19, Article 6 (2) of Council Regulation No 13/64/EEC,7 Article 2 (5)
                 of Regulation No 16/64/EEC),                            '
             — in respect of certain kinds of compound feeding-stuffs (Article 7 of Council Regulation
                 No 166/64/EEC ),
             — in respect of certain varieties of common wheat (Article 1 of Council Decision of
              . 28 June 1966 9).
    2. Countervailing duties :
        Fruit and vegetables (Article 11 (2) of Council Regulation No 2310 as amended by Council
        Regulation No 65/65/EEC11).
     1 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p . 933/62 .
     2 OJ No 86, "20.5.1 965, p. 1454/65 .
     3 OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p . 574/64 .
     4 OJ No 30, '20.4.1962, p. 945/62.
     6 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 953/62 .
     6 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 959/62 .
     7 OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p. 549/64.
     8 OJ No 173 , 31.10.1964, p . 2747/64.
     9 03 No 117, 29.6.1966, p. 2167/66.
    10 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962 , p . 965 /62.
    11 OJ No 86, 20.5.1965 , p . 1458/65 .