CELEX: 31976R1833
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1833/76 of 28 July 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71 on price increases and reductions applicable to intervention in cereals

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 No L 203/28                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                29. 7. 76
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1833/76
                                                         of 28 July 1976
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71 on price increases and reductions appli
                                                cable to intervention in cereals
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      considered as feed grain and taken over for interven­
COMMUNITIES,                                                        tion at the price level for barley ; whereas,
                                                                    consequently, in view of Article 2a of Commission
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 of 13 July 1971 fixing
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              the procedure and conditions for the taking over of
 Economic Community,                                                cereals by intervention agencies (6), as last amended by
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1832/76 (^), certain provisions
                                                                    contained in Articles 2, 3 (2) and 4 (1 ) of Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 1493/71 should be amended to take into
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       account the fact that the said quality of common
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                 wheat is to be used as feed grain ;
tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 143/76 (2) and in particular
Articles 4 (3) and 7 (5) thereof,                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Cereals,
Whereas Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1493/71 of 13 July 1971 on price increases and
reductions applicable to intervention in cereals (3), as
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 548/76 (4),
provides that intervention agencies may apply a
special increase of 1 *50 units of account per metric
ton for rye in regions where that cereal is regularly
sold for bread-making, provided that it meets                                                Article 1
minimum physical and technological criteria as to
quality ; whereas, in view of the loss of interest of
farmers in the cultivation of rye in the traditional               Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71 is
production regions, the special increase which may be              hereby amended to read as follows :
granted on intervention for rye should, as an incen­
tive, be raised from 1-50 to three units of account per                 ' 1 . Without prejudice to the provisions of
metric ton ; whereas, since the criteria as to quality                  Article 3, the intervention agencies may apply, on
required for granting the? special increase no longer                   intervention, a special increase of three units of
correspond to present commercial practices, the said                    account per metric ton for rye where its particu­
Article 6 should be adapted in accordance with                          larly good quality is suited for bread-making,
market practices ;                                                      provided that :
                                                                        — the percentage of sprouted grains does not
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71                             exceed 2*5 % ,
provides that the price increases and reductions by                     — the percentage of broken grains does not
which the intervention price is increased or reduced                         exceed 5 % and the percentage of grain
shall be calculated by applying to the intervention                          impurities does not exceed 3 % ,
price valid at the beginning of the marketing year the
percentage provided for in Articles 3, 4 and 6 thereof ;                — the percentage of spontaneously fermented
whereas, for the 1976/77 marketing year, common                              grain does not exceed 0-05 %
wheat not meeting the conditions of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 1831 /76 of 28 July 1976 laying                     — the percentage of grains heated during drying
down the method for determining the minimum                                  operations does not exceed 0-50 % ,
bread-making quality of common wheat required for                       — the amylogramme units, based on full milling,
intervention in the 1976/77 marketing year (5), will be                      including the germ, with a hardening tempera­
                                                                             ture of the starch of at least 63° , are not less
0)  OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                                     than 200 units .'
(2) OJ  No L 130, 19 . 5. 1976,   p. 1 .
(*) OJ  No L 157, 14. 7. 1971 ,   p. 21 .
(«) OJ  No L 171 , 30. 6. 1976,   p. 28 .                          (*) OJ No L 157, 14. 7. 1971 , p. 18 .
(5) See page 20 of this Official  Journal.                         (7) See page 26 of this Official Journal.
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                        Article 2                                     of broken grains exceeds separately 4 % , and
                                                                      the percentage of sprouted grains exceeds
The following Article 6a is hereby added to Regula­                   2 5 % , a reduction of 0-05 % shall be applied
tion (EEC) No 1493/71 :                                               for each excess of 01 % .
     'Article 6a                                                  4. For the purposes of applying the third indent
    1.     Where common wheat does not meet the                   of Article 2a of Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 , the
    minimum requirements for bread-making as laid                 following shall be added to the list of reductions
                                                                  set out in Table II of the Annex for common
    down in Regulation (EEC) No 1831 /76, it shall be
    taken over by the intervention agencies at the                wheat with a specific weight differing from the
    price level for barley.                                       specific weight of the standard quality :
    2. Where the first paragraph of Article 2
    applies, the intervention price for the common                                     (kg/hi)                 (%)
    wheat referred to in paragraph 1 shall be that appli­
    cable to barley.
                                                                  Less than 72   to 71                        1.75
    3. By way of derogation from Article 4 (1 ) and               Less than 71   to 70                       2.25
    (2), the reductions to be applied to the common               Less than 70   to 69                       2.75 '
    wheat referred to in paragraph 1 shall be calcu­
    lated as follows :
    (a) where the percentage of miscellaneous impuri­                                     Article 3
        ties (Schwarzbesatz) exceeds 1 % , a reduction of
        0*1 % shall be applied for each excess of             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
        0-1 % ;                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                              the European Communities.
    (b) where the percentage of grain impurities
        excluding shrivelled grain and the percentage         It shall apply with effect from 1 August 1976.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 28 July 1976.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                    Member of the Commission