CELEX: 51988PC0120(13)
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-05
Title: PROPOSAL COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) FIXING THE AMOUNT OF THE PRODUCTION AID FOR CERTAIN VARIETIES OF RICE SOWN IN THE 1988/89 MARKETING YEAR

30. 5. 88                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No C 139/15
                  Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) fixing the monthly price increases for paddy rice
                                       and husked rice for the 1988/1989 marketing year
                                                          (88/C 139/12)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            — 1,57 ECU per tonne for the intervention and buying-in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    ^/licwaj
Economic Community,
                                                                    — 1,96 ECU per tonne for the target price.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of
21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in
rice i1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No ..., and in        2. The monthly increases shall apply to the intervention
particular Article 7(2) thereof,                                    and buying-in prices from 1 January to 1 July 1989, the
                                                                    prices thus obtained for July 1989 remaining valid until
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  31 August 1989.
Whereas, when the number and amounts of the monthly
increases and the first month during which those increases          The monthly increases shall apply to the target price from
are to apply are fixed, account should be taken of the               1 October 1988 to 1 July 1989, the price thus obtained for
storage costs and financing charges for storing rice in the         July 1989 remaining valid until 31 August 1989.
Community and of the need to ensure that the disposal of
stocks of rice conforms to market requirements; whereas
such stocks should be disposed of more regularly by
discouraging operators from holding them; whereas, to                                         Article 2
that end, those increases should be reduced,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULTION:
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                     following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                           Article 1
                                                                    European Communities.
1. For the 1988/1989 marketing year, the monthly
increases provided for in Article 7(1) of Regulation (EEC)           It shall apply from 1 September 1988.
No 1418/76 shall be:
                                                                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
(!) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1.                                  applicable in all Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) fixing the amount of the production aid for certain
                                     varieties of rice sown in the 1988/1989 marketing year
                                                           (88/C 139/13)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                  Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of
                                                                     Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in
                                                                     Committee,
rice (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No ..., and in
particular Article 8(a)(3) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the objective of the production aid is to encourage
                                                                     varietal conversion of rice production to certain types of
 (!) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1.                                 rice for which greater demand exists on the Community
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market; whereas the varieties for which demand exists               1988/1989 marketing year shall be 330 ECU per hectare for
normally have lower crop yields than those of the varieties         the countries referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
that are traditionally grown;                                       No ... .
Whereas the production aid must be fixed at a level which
enable the lower revenue resulting from the decreased                                         Article 2
yields to be offset,
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                    European Communities.
                            Article 1                               It shall apply with effect from 1 September 1988.
The production aid for certain varieties of rice referred to in     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
Article 8a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and sown in the           applicable in all Member States.
               Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common
                                        organization of the markets in the sugar sector
                                                           (88/C 139/14)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            guaranteed prices are to be fixed at which the Community
                                                                    undertakes to purchase, within agreed quantities, quan-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               tities of the said sugars which cannot be marketed in the
Economic Community and in particular Articles 42 and 43             Community at a price equivalent to or in excess of the
thereof,                                                            guaranteed price;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  Whereas the guaranteed prices for preferential raw sugar
                                                                    have not, since 1985/1986, enabled the Community refiners
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,            concerned to pay the suppliers in question the said price
                                                                    without any undue adverse effect on their margins;
                                                                    whereas that adverse effect has since been offset by a
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social             Community contribution granted under a temporary
Committee,                                                          scheme the period of validity of which has been renewed;
                                                                    whereas it is now advisable to introduce a similar but more
Whereas under the terms of Protocol 7 on ACP sugar                  suitable scheme, whereby adjustment aid is paid by the
annexed to the Lome Convention (*) and of the Agreement             Community for the refining of preferential raw sugar in the
between the European Economic Community and the                     Community;
Republic of India on cane sugar (2), the Community has
undertaken to purchase and import at guaranteed prices
specific quantities of cane sugar, raw or white, which              Whereas, in order to preserve a balance between the price
originate in certain ACP States and the Republic of India           of preferential raw cane sugar and that of raw cane sugar
and which they undertake to deliver it; whereas the                 from the French overseas departments at the stage where
provisions referred to stipulate that they are to be                those products enter the refinery, raw cane sugar from
implemented within the framework of the management of               those departments and, when it is processed into white
the market organization concerned which is laid down in             sugar in refineries in the Community, raw sugar obtained
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 (3), as last amended            from beet harvested in the Community qualify for an
by Regulation (EEC) No 3993/87 ( 4 ); whereas those                 additional Community subsidy which is identical to that
provisions further stipulate that, after negotiation, annual        paid in respect of preferential raw sugar; whereas it is
                                                                    advisable that this Regulation include such provisions;
(!) OJ  No L  86, 31. 3. 1986, p. 164.
(2) OJ  No L  190, 23. 7. 1985, p. 35.                              Whereas a provision should be introduced whereby the
(3) OJ  No L  177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.                                amount of the adjustment aid for the sugars in question
(4) OJ  No L  377, 31. 12. 1987, p. 24.                             can, where appropriate, be altered in order to maintain the