CELEX: 31974D0436
Language: en
Date: 1974-08-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 8 August 1974 authorizing the Kingdoms of the Netherlands and Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Federal Republic of Germany to apply special intervention measures for common wheat

30 . 8 . 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 238 /43
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                                             (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                     COMMISSION
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 8 August 1974
               authorizing the Kingdoms of the Netherlands and Belgium , the Grand Duchy of
               Luxembourg and the Federal Republic of Germany to apply special intervention
                                                   measures for common wheat
                                  (Only the French, Dutch and German texts are authentic)
                                                            (74/436/ EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         1974/75 marketing year ; whereas there is the risk that
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         common wheat will be little used for animal feeding,
                                                                      the denaturing premium for the said ' marketing year
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                having been fixed at zero ; whereas the market situa­
 Economic Community ;                                                 tion may therefore give rise to the fear of massive
                                                                      deliveries of this product into intervention immedi­
 Having regard to Council               Regulation No 120/            ately after the harvest ;
67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on          the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals, as       last amended by Regu­
 lation (EEC) No 1 996/74 (2),          and in particular the
second paragraph of Article 8 and Article 24 thereof ;                Whereas measures suited to the circumstances
                                                                      described above should be taken in order to avoid the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 174/
67/EEC (3) of 27 June 1967 on special intervention                    intervention agencies in question being obliged to
measures for cereals, as last amended by Regulation                   make large purchases of common wheat ; whereas the
(EEC) No 445/68 (4), and in particular Article 1                      market should therefore be eased by removing from it
thereof ;                                                             for a fixed period a quantity of this product ; whereas
                                                                      a quantity of 175 000 metric tons for the Netherlands,
 Having regard to the communications from the King­                   275 000 metric tons for Belgium , 15 000 metric tons
doms of the Netherlands and Belgium , the Grand                       for Luxembourg and 400 000 metric tons for
 Duchy of Luxembourg, and from the Federal Repu­                      Germany would seem to be sufficient to attain that
blic of Germany which reached the Commission on                       objective ; whereas to this end contracts should be esta­
23, 24 and 30 July 1974 respectively stating the parti­               blished between the holders and the intervention agen­
cularly difficult situation for holders of barley and                 cies concerned and the detailed rules for this system
including requests for special intervention measures                  should be laid down ;
for common wheat ;
Whereas as a result of the price relationship between
cereals the market price for common wheat could be                    Whereas in order to attain the objectives referred to,
below the intervention price at the beginning of the                  the holders of common wheat should be given an
                                                                      allowance for the storage costs which they will incur
(')  OJ No  117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                             and which would have been automatically and wholly
 2   OJ No  L 209, 31 . 7 . 1974, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ No  130, 28 . 6. 1967, p. 2609/67.                            at the expense of the intervention agency if they had
(4 ) OJ No  L 91 , 12. 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                               offered their stocks to it ;
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Whereas in case of any disturbance on the Commu­              The competent agency shall communicate to the
nity market, the possibility should remain for the             holder, before 1 October 1974, the quantity which
intervention agencies concerned to authorize the               will be subject to the undertaking.
   imination of storage for the quantities in question ,
under the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regula­                                 Article 3
tion No 120/ 67/ EEC ;
Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has               The operations referred to in Article 1 may only relate
not delivered an opinion within the time limits set by
                                                               to common wheat from the 1974 crop which fulfils
its Chairman ,
                                                               the conditions laid down for acceptability for interven­
                                                               tion .
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                              The intervention agency shall verify the existence of
                                                               the claimants' stocks before signature of the contract
                                                               and at the end of the period of storage. Moreover it
                          Article 1
                                                               shall carry out all necessary control measures to
The following Member States are authorized to have             confirm that the undertaking is respected .
their intervention agencies carry out special interven­
tion operations for common wheat within the frame­                                     Article 4
work of the undermentioned provisions :
                                                               The Member States concerned may be authorized,
— the Kingdom of the Netherlands — 175 000                     according to the procedure laid down in Article 26 of
     metric tons ;
                                                               Regulation No 120/67/ EEC, to terminate the under­
— the Kingdom of Belgium — 275 000 metric tons ;               taking provided for in Article 1 (a).
— the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg — 1 5 000
     metric tons ;                                             In this case the daily premium referred to in Article
— the Federal Republic of Germany — 400 000                     1 (b) shall be granted up to the day fixed for termina­
     metric tons .                                             tion of the undertaking at the end of the actual period
These operations shall involve the conclusion before 1         of storage.
October 1974 of contracts, between the intervention            For the remainder of the period from that day until
agency and holders of common wheat, in terms of                31 January 1975, a forfeit at a rate of 0-008 unit of
which :
                                                               account per metric ton per day shall be paid .
(a) the holders shall undertake to keep in store from 1
     September or from 10 September to 31 January                                      Article 5
     1975 a given quantity of common wheat ;
(b) the intervention agency shall grant to the holders         The Member States concerned shall keep the Commis­
     of that quantity, at the end of the period laid down      sion informed as to the development of the operations
     in (a), a daily premium, intended to cover storage        provided for in this Decision .
     and credit costs, fixed contractually at 0-0233 unit
     of account per metric ton .                                                       Article 6
                          Article 2                            This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the
                                                               Netherlands, the Kingdom of Belgium , the Grand
Holders who wish to enter into such an undertaking              Duchy of Luxembourg and the Federal Republic of
must make a written application , amounting to a firm          Germany.
undertaking, to the intervention agency before 1
September or 10 September 1974 indicating the quan­
tity in question , which may not be less than 200               Done at Brussels, 8 August 1974.
metric tons . Should the total quantity in respect of
which the holders wish to contract exceed the quan­
                                                                                          For the Commission
tity given in the first paragraph of Article 1 , the inter­
vention agency shall allocate the quantity which will                                         The President
be contracted in proportion to the quantity offered by
each holder.                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI