CELEX: 31984R2066
Language: en
Date: 1984-07-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2066/84 of 18 July 1984 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

19. 7. 84                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 191 / 19
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2066/84
                                                          of 18 July 1984
                                       fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market
COMMUNITIES,                                                        price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing
                                                                    point, is to be determined on the basis of the most
                                                                    favourable purchasing opportunities, quotations being
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               adjusted where necessary to take account of quotations
Economic Community,                                                 for competing products ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC
of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                       whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 1 1 5/
common organization of the market in oils and fats ('),             67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1101 /84 (2),                mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing
and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof,                           the frontier crossing point (9), as last amended by
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1983/82 (10), fixed the said cros­
                                                                    sing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        Regulation provides that when the world market price
1223/83 of 20 May 1983 on the exchange rates to be                  is being determined account should be taken of all
applied in agriculture (3), as last amended by Regula­              offers on the world market known to the Commission
tion (EEC) No 855/84 (4),                                           and of quotations on those exchanges which are signi­
                                                                    ficant for international trade ; whereas Article 2 of
                                                                    Commission Regulation No 225/67/EEC of 28 June
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         1967 on detailed rules for determining the world
1569/72 of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures                market price for oil seeds ("), as last amended by
for colza, rape and sunflower seed (*), as last amended             Regulation (EEC) No 2037/ 84 ( u), provides that offers
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 474/84 (6), and in particular              and quotations which do not relate to shipments to be
Article 2 (3) thereof,                                              effected within 30 days following the date on which
                                                                    the world market price is determined should be disre­
                                                                    garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        Commission believes, in view of general price move­
Committee ,                                                         ments or information available to it, not to be repre­
                                                                    sentative of the real trend of the market must also be
                                                                    disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC                     quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating to
provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of             seed of a quality other than that normally acceptable
oil seeds harvested and processed within the Commu­                 on the world market must also be disregarded ;
nity when the target price for a species of seed is
higher than the price on the world market ; whereas
these provisions at present apply only in respect of
colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                   Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
                                                                     provides that of the offers and quotations taken into
                                                                    consideration, those for delivery c and f should be
Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically,             increased by 0,2 % ; whereas offers and quotations for
be equal to the difference between those two prices ;               delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased, as
                                                                    appropriate, by loading, transport and insurance costs
                                                                     from the point of shipment or loading to the frontier
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in               crossing point ; whereas cif offers and quotations for
the target price for oil seeds for the 1984/85 marketing             frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should
year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 11 02/ 84 Q                 be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and
and (EEC ) No 1 103/ 84 (8) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu             insurance costs as compared with a product delivered
                                                                    cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take
(')  OJ No  172, 30 . 9 .  1966, p.  3025/ 66 .                     account only of the loading, transport and insurance
 2)  OJ No L 113 , 28 .   4 . 1984,  p. 7 .                          costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas,
 3)  OJ No L 132, 21 .    5 . 1983 , p. 33 .
 ")  OJ No L 90 , 1 . 4 .  1984, p.   1.
 ■<) OJ No L 167, 25.     7. 1972,   p. 9 .                         0 OJ    No  111 , 10 . 6 . 1967, p.  2196/67.
 ')  OJ No L 143, 30 .    5 . 1984,  p. 4.                          ("') OJ  No  L 215, 23 .   7. 1982,  p. 6 .
 1   OJ No L 113 , 28 .   4 . 1984,  p. 8 .                         (") OJ   No  136, 30 . 6 .  1967, p.  2919/67.
 s)  OJ No L 113 , 28 .   4 . 1984,  p. 10 .                        H OJ     No  L 189 , 17.   7. 1984,  p. 15.
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finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam      Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 115/
should be increased by 0,242 ECU ;                             67/EEC, the price determined for colza, rape and
                                                               sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount
                                                               not exceeding the margin, as calculated in accordance
Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/ 67/EEC                 with that Article, where that margin may affect the
 provides that the world market price should be deter­         normal disposal of seeds harvested in the Community ;
 mined for seed of the standard quality for which the
 target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ;              Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for
                                                               the purpose of determining that margin are defined in
                                                               Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC                  adjustment should be made where the margin is found
 provides that offers and quotations relating to products      to be less than 0,604 ECU ;
 presented otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted
 by deducting the additional value resulting from that
 presentation ; whereas offers and quotations relating to      Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14
a quality other than the standard quality for which the       June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down
target price was fixed should be adjusted on the basis         rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas,
of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex          under that Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted
to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case of offers on         is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must
the world market for qualities of colza and rape seed          be equal to the amount applicable on the day on
other than those listed in that Annex, coefficients of        which the application for advance fixing was lodged,
equivalence derived from those listed in that Annex            adjusted by the difference between the target price
may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 225/              valid on that day and the target price valid on the day
67/ EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived coef­              on which the seeds are placed under control at an oil
ficients are being calculated, account must be taken of       or feed mill and, where appropriate, a corrective
the differences between prices for the qualities of seed      amount ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regula­
in question and prices for the qualities listed in that        tion (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying
Annex, and of the characteristics of these various            down detailed rules for the application of the subsidy
seeds ;                                                       system for oil seeds (2), as amended by Regulation
                                                              (EEC) No 1814/84 ('), provides that such adjustment
                                                              should involve increasing or reducing the amount of
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/ EEC                subsidy applicable on the day on which the applica­
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used        tion was lodged by the corrective amount and the
as a basis for determining the world market price, that       difference between the target prices mentioned in
price should be determined on the basis of the value          Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 ;
of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting
from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within
the Community less an amount corresponding to the             Whereas Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83
cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ;        provides that the corrective amount must be equal to
whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into
                                                              the difference between the world market price for
consideration for the purposes of the calculation are         colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price
fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ;              for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during
whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­
                                                              the month in which the seeds were placed under
mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­            control at an oil mill, those prices being determined in
tion ;
                                                              accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation No
                                                               1 15/67/ EEC ; whereas, if no offer and no price can be
                                                              used for such determination , the method of calculation
                                                              provided for in Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                 2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the abovementioned
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used        difference may be adjusted in accordance with Article
as a basis for determining the world market price and
where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value
                                                              38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account being
of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the          taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ;
world market price should be determined on the basis
of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake ,          Whereas Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83
adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices         provides for the publication of the amount of the final
for competing products by applying to that value the          subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the
rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No 115/              national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting
67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/              from the calculation referred to above plus or minus
67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or
oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have           (') OJ No L 163 , 22. 6 . 1983 , p. 44.
been offered in the largest quantities on the world           (2) OJ No L 266, 28 . 9 . 1983, p. 1 .
market during the period under consideration ;                (') OJ No L 170 , 29 . 6 . 1984, p. 44.
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 the differential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Regula­        the previous month or the following month, as the
 tion (EEC) No 1813/84 (') defined the elements which          case may be, is to be used ;
 determine the differential amounts ; whereas these
 elements are equal to the incidence on the target price
 or the subsidy of the coefficient derived from the            Whereas, for the period 11 to 17 July 1984, for certain
                                                               currencies :
 percentage referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 1569/72 ; whereas, according to these provi­
 sions, this percentage represents :                           — for the current month, the difference referred to in
                                                                   Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72
                                                                   differs by more than one point from the percen­
 (a) for those Member States whose currencies are                  tage adopted for the previous fixing,
      maintained as between themselves within a spread
      at any given moment of 2,25 % , the difference           — for certain       following months the difference
      between :                                                    referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1569/72 exceeds 0,5 % ; whereas this difference in
      — the conversion rate used under the common                  the case of certain forward differential amounts
          agricultural policy, and                                 differs by more than one point from the percen­
                                                                   tage adopted for the previous fixing ;
      — the conversion rate resulting from the central
          rate,
                                                               Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the
 (b) for Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece, the             market situation makes it necessary and in such a way
      difference between :                                     as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ;
                                                               whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it
      — the relationship between the conversion rate           becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ;
          used under the common agricultural policy for
          the currency of the Member State concerned           Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to
          and the central rate of each of the currencies of
                                                               the offers and quotations known to the Commission
          the Member States referred to in (a), and
                                                               that, pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No
      — the spot market rate for the currency of the           2681 /83 the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the
          Member State in question in relation to each of      amount of the subsidy in each of the national curren­
          the currencies of the Member States referred to      cies must be fixed in accordance with the Annex to
          in (a), as recorded over a period to be deter­       this Regulation ; whereas, pursuant to the same Article,
          mined ;                                              the spot and forward exchange rates for the ECU in
                                                               national currencies determined in accordance with
                                                               Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1813/ 84 must also
                                                               be published,
Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1569/72, the monetary disparity for the
 marketing years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated
by a method which takes into account a coefficient
applied to the conversion rate resulting from the
central rate ; whereas the said Article 2a fixed the coef­     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ficient for the beginning of the 1984/85 marketing
year ; whereas account should be taken thereof in
 respect of colza and rape seed with effect from 1 July
 1984 and for sunflower seed with effect from 1 August
 1984 ;                                                                                 Article 1
                                                               The amounts of the subsidy and the exchange rates
Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC)          referred to in Article 33 (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC)
No 1569/72 forward differential amounts are to be              No 2681 /83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
determined where the forward exchange rate for one
or more currencies differs from the spot rate by at least
a given percentage ; whereas this percentage has been
fixed at 0,5 by Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 ;
Whereas where, for one or more months, forward
                                                                                        Article 2
exchange rates are not available, the rate adopted for
(') OJ No L 170, 29 . 6 . 1984, p. 41 .                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 July 1984.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 18 July 1984.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Poul DALSAGER
                                                               Member of the Commission
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                                                                       ANNEX I
                                                           Aids to colza and rape seed
                                                                                                                                  (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                   Current
                                                                      1st month           2nd month          3rd month         4th month         5th month
                                                    month
1 . Gross aids (ECU)                                   7,699               7,005               9,816             10,729             12,651             13,171
2. Final aids
    Seeds harvested and processed in :
    — Federal Republic of Germany (DM)               27,16                25,56               32,21              34,67              39,22             41,26
    — Netherlands (Fl)                               24,77                22,96               30,35              33,04              38,10             40,22
    — BLEU (Bfrs/ Lfrs)                             357,32               325,11              455,58             496,48            585,74             599,27
    — France (FF)                                    43,50                38,56               57,85              63,17              76,76             77,30
    — Denmark (Dkr)                                   64,79               58,95               82,60              90,28            106,46             110,08
    — Ireland (£ Irl)                                   5,775              5,255               7,357              7,974              9,419              9,624
    — United Kingdom (£)                                5,184              4,762               6,477              7,037              8,212              8,533
    — Italy (Lit)                                11 025              10 027               13 765             14 802           17 576             17 489
    — Greece (Dr)                                   657,27               593,75              850,52             933,57          1 108,97          1 156,04
                                                                       ANNEX II
                                                              Aids to sunflower seed
                                                                                                                                   (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                     Current
                                                                            1st month              2nd month            3rd month              4th month
                                                     month
1 . Gross aids (ECU)                                     16,127                 1 2,466                 14,751               17,184                 21,296
2 . Final aids
    Seeds harvested and processed in :
    — Federal Republic of Germany (DM)                  52,90                   40,37                   45,71                51,74                  61,36
    — Netherlands ( Fl)                                 52,03                   38,30                   44,27                50,97                  61,74
    —    BLEU (Bfrs/ Lfrs)                            724,12                   578,57                 684,62                795,91                986,89
    —    France ( FF)                                   87,38                   74,77                   90,35               106,36                 135,58
    —    Denmark (Dkr)                                 137,00                  104,90                 124,13                144,60                 179,21
    —    Ireland (£ Irl)                                 11,703                   9,351                 11,058               12,808                 1 5,899
    —    United Kingdom (£)                              11,355                   8,199                  9,588               11,074                 13,581
    —    Italy (Lit)                               19 798                  17 846                 20 790                23 985                29 926
    —    Greece (Dr)                                  734,02                 1 082,60               1 291,75             1 513,83               1 889,59
                                                                      ANNEX III
                         Exchange rate of the ECU to be used for converting final aids into the currency of the
                         processing country when the latter is a country other than the country of production
                                                                                                                                             (value of 1 ECU)
                                          Current
                                                              1st month             2nd month            3rd month          4th month           5th month
                                           month
DM                                         2,234680              2,228130              2,221790             2,215540           2,215540             2,198340
Fl                                         2,520050              2,514120              2,508420             2,502340           2,502340             2,485250
Bfrs / Lfrs                               45,325000            45,416300             45,501600            45,579700          45,579700            45,803000
FF                                         6,855170              6,867950              6,881980             6,898140           6,898140             6,950560
Dkr                                        8,159890              8,175820              8,186070             8,198470           8,198470             8,222610
£ Irl                                      0,728407              0,730404              0,732598             0734868            0,734868             0,741520
£                                          0,598074              0,599427              0,600733             0,601966           0,601966             0,604351
Lit                                    1 372,740            1 380,780             1 388,420            1 395,890          1 395,890           1 419,460
Dr                                        88,55200             88,55200              88,55200              88,55200           88,55200            88,55200