CELEX: 51993PC0004
Language: en
Date: 1993-01-11
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops

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               Proposal for a Council Regulation ( EEC) amending Regulation ( EEC) No 1765/92 establishing
                                       a support system for producers of certain arable crops
                                                            (93 / C 30 / 06)
                                                          COM(93) 4 final
                                         (Submitted by the Commission on 11 January 1993)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                               possibility of choice it would be reasonable to allow
                                                                        them to use 1989 /90 also ; whereas in the absence of data
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   for that year for Community durum wheat production
                                                                        aid reference should be made to the areas sown to
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and
43 thereof,                                                             durum wheat as indicated by the General Agricultural
                                                                        Survey carried out in Portugal in 1989 ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                       Whereas, however, an excessive increase in the areas
                                                                        eligible for the durum wheat supplement in Spain and
Having regard to the opinion of the European                            Portugal should be avoided ;
Parliament,
                                                                       Whereas account should be taken of the situation of
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                       durum wheat producers located in certain departments
Social Committee,                                                       of the south of France which are not regarded as tra­
                                                                        ditional production zones but where durum wheat culti­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765 /92 of 30                     vation is of particular importance owing to the lack of a
June 1992 establishing a support system for producers of               viable alternative ; whereas this situation should be
certain arable crops ('), provides for the payment to                  corrected by classifying the departments in question as
producers of durum wheat in traditional production                     traditional production zones ; whereas, however, in order
zones of a supplement to the compensatory payment                      to avoid an unjustififed increase in the production of
referred to in Title I of that Regulation in order to                  durum wheat, the land eligible for the supplement to the
compensate for the additional loss of income to the                    compensatory payment should be limited , by analogy to
producers in question by comparison with producers of                  the treatment applied to producers in traditional zones ;
other cereals as a result of the setting of a single price             whereas , in view of the absence of historical data on the
for all cereals ; whereas its amount will be based on area             area of durum wheat cultivated by each producer in the
sown to durum wheat in the traditional zones that was                  departments in question , the eligible areas in these
eligible for the production aid for the 1988 / 89, 1989/90,            departments should be restricted to the average of the
1990 /91 or 1991 /92 marketing year at the producer's                  areas under durum wheat during the same reference
choice ;                                                               period as that used for durum wheat producers in tra­
                                                                       ditional production zones ,
Whereas under the Act of Accession the durum wheat
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
production aid has been introduced gradually in Spain
and the full amount paid from the 1992 /93 marketing
year only; whereas in consequence the aid has had its                                            Article 1
full economic impact only from 1992/93 ; whereas for
the sake of equity Spanish producers should be able to                 Regulation (EEC) No 1765 /92 is hereby amended as
use 1992 / 93 as a reference year ;                                    follows :
Whereas in Portugal the aid was introduced from
                                                                        1 . the following is added to the first subparagraph of
                                                                            Article 4 ( 3):
1991 /92 only ; whereas accordingly reference should be
made only to areas eligible for the aid for that marketing                  'The following may also be used as reference periods :
year; whereas, however, to give Portuguese producers a
                                                                                in Spain, in addition to the abovementioned
O OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7 . 1992 , p. 12 .                                          marketing years 1992 /93 ,
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     — in Portugal, as well as the 1991 /92 marketing                  4. the following Annex to this Regulation is added
         year, the 1989/90 marketing year for areas sown                     'ANNEX III
         to durum wheat as indicated by the General Agri­
         cultural Survey carried out in 1989 .                              Zones referred to in Article 4 (4)
                                                                            FRANCE
     The total eligible areas in Spain and Portugal may not
     exceed 550 000 and 30 000 hectares respectively.';                     — Department of Ardeche :                               600,
2. the following paragraph is added to Article 4 :                          — Department of Drome :                              2 300,
     '4. In France the supplement to the compensatory                       — Department of Midi-Pyrenees region :             60 455 .'
     payment to in the last subparagraph of paragraph 3
     shall be paid to durum wheat producers for the areas                                            Article 2
     located in the departments indicated in Annex III                This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
     hereto, within the limit of the number of hectares
                                                                       following its publication in the Official Journal of the
     allocated to each department.';
                                                                       European Communities.
3 . in Article 10 (4), 'in Article 4 (3)' is replaced by 'in          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
     Article 4 (31) and (4).';                                         directly applicable in all Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Decision on a multiannual programme ( 1993 to 1996) of Community
                measures to intensify the priority areas of policy for enterprise, in particular small and
                                         medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in the Community
                                                             (93 /C 30/07)
                                                          COM(92) 470 final
                                          (Submitted by the Commission on 13 January 1993)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      including craft industry enterprises (3), the Council
                                                                              confirmed its undertaking to support the consoli­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                         dation of the action taken to help enterprises ;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 235
thereof,
                                                                        3 . Whereas the evolution of the economic situation calls
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                            for an initiative to relaunch growth, to whose success
                                                                              SMEs have an essential contribution to make ;
Having regard to the opinion of the European
Parliament,
                                                                        4. Whereas this situation involves proposing the
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                              adoption of a programme of Community measures to
Social Committee ,                                                            assist SMEs which takes full account of this new
                                                                              priority ;
  1 . Whereas on 28 July 1989 the Council adopted
      Decision 89/ 490/EEC on the improvement of the
      business environment and the promotion of the
      development of enterprises, and in particular small                5 . Whereas the Commission has put before the Council
      and* medium-sized enterprises, in the Community ('),                    a communication on enterprise policy for the
      as revised by Council Decision 91 /319/EEC of 18                        Community, entitled The Enterprise Dimension
      June 1991 O ;                                                           essential to Community Growth,
  2. Whereas in its resolution of 17 June 1992 on
      Community action to support enterprises, in                        6. Whereas this Decision applies to all forms of
      particular small and medium-sized enterprises,                          enterprise, in particular small and medium-sized
                                                                              enterprises , including those in commerce and the
0) OJ No L 239 , 16. 8 . 1989 , p . 33 .
O OJ No L 175 , 4 . 7. 1991 , p . 32 .                                 (3) OJ No C 178, 15 . 7. 1992, p. 8.