CELEX: 51985PC0824
Language: en
Date: 1985-12-23
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) LAYING DOWN THE GENERAL RULES GOVERNING THE SYSTEM OF " ACCESSION " COMPENSATORY AMOUNTS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN PROCESSED CEREAL PRODUCTS, BY REASON OF THE ACCESSION OF SPAIN

31. 12. 85                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              No C 351/23
                  Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) laying down the general rules governing the system
                      of 'accession' compensatory amounts applicable to certain processed cereal products, by
                                                   reason of the accession of Spain
                                                         COM(85) 824 final
                                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 26 December 1985)
                                                            (85/C 351/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              causing, on the one hand, harmful imbalances in trade
                                                                      between Spain and the Community of Ten and, on the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 other hand, serious risks of deflection of trade with non-
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,             member countries; whereas, accordingly, compensatory
                                                                      amounts should be introduced for these products, to be
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,              derived from the amounts applicable to the basic cereals
                                                                      used for the processing in question,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Article 72 of the Act of Accession of Spain and               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Potugal (2) provides for the introduction of a mechanism
for compensating for differences in price levels in trade                                         Article 1
between the Community of Ten and Spain, and between
Spain and third countries: whereas Article 111 (3) provides           1.    In trade between the Community of Ten and Spain,
that, in the cereals sector, for the products referred to in
                                                                      and between Spain and third countries, the products
Article 1 (c) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of               referred to in Article 1 (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75
29 October 1975, on the common organization of the                    shall be subject to the application of 'accession' com-
market in cereals (2), the 'accession' compensatory                   pensatory amounts derived from those applicable to the
amounts shall be derived from the compensatory amounts                cereals to which they are related, with the help of
applicable to the cereals to which they are related, with the         coefficients to be determined in accordance with the
help of coefficients to be determined; whereas this                   procedure laid down in paragraph 3.
provision covers only a very limited numbered of processed
products, namely wheat flour, meslin and rye and wheat                2.    The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a
groats and meal; whereas this provision does not cover the            proposal from the Commission, shall decide the general
majority of the processed products referred to in section (d)         rules governing the application of this Article.
of the abovementioned Article and which are listed in
Annex A of the Regulation in question;                                3.    The Commission shall decide upon the detailed rules
                                                                      of application of this Article in accordance with the
Whereas the reason for introducing the abovementioned                 procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation (EEC) No
system of compensation was the difference in price levels             2727/75.
for basic products recorded, on the one hand, in Spain and,
on the other hand, in the rest of the Community; whereas                                          Article 2
such a system must necessarily be extended to products
obtained from the processing of basic cereals at the risk of          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1986.
(!) OJ No L 302, 15. 11. 1985, p. 39.                                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
(2) O J N o L 2 8 1 , 1. 11.1975, p. 1.                               applicable in all Member States.