CELEX: 31988R1517
Language: en
Date: 1988-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1517/88 of 31 May 1988 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

No L 135/56                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   1 . 6 . 88
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1517/88
                                                       of 31 May 1988
                                       fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      provisional basis and must be confirmed or replaced
                                                                 when the 1988/89 prices are known ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas the average world market price is determined for
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 5 and             a bulk pelleted product, delivered to Rotterdam, of the
155 thereof,                                                     standard quality for which the guide price has been fixed ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               Whereas, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 of
Portugal,                                                         19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried fodder (3), as last
                                                                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1173/87 (4), the average
                                                                  world market price for the products described in the first
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78              and third indents of Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                  1117/78 is to be determined on the basis of the most
of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the
market in dried fodder ('), as last amended by Regulation         favourable actual purchase possibilities excepting those
(EEC) No 3996/87 (2), and in particular Article 5 (3)             which cannot be considered representative of the real
thereof,                                                          market trend ; whereas offers and quotations recorded
                                                                  during the first 25 days of the month in question for
                                                                  quantities that can be delivered during the following
                                                                  calendar month are to be used ; whereas the average world
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                  market price thus determined is used to fix the aid rate
                                                                  applicable on the following month ;
Whereas, under Article 5 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1117/78, when the guide price is higher than the average         Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in the
world market price, aid is granted for dried fodder as            case of offers and quotations not of the type referred to
described under Article 1 (b) and (c) of that Regulation          above ; whereas these adjustments were defined in Article
 obtained from fodder plants harvested in the Commu­              3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30
 nity ; whereas that aid takes account of a percentage of         June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application
 the difference between these two prices ;                        of the system of aid for dried fodder (*), as last amended
                                                                  by Regulation (EEC) No 2334/87 (*) ;
 Whereas the Council has not yet adopted the guide price          Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation
 for the 1988/89 marketing year which begins on 1 May              (EEC) No 1417/78, when no offer or quotation can be
 1988 ; whereas the Commission, in virtue of the powers            used to determine the average world market price, that
 conferred on it by the Treaty, must take the necessary            price is determined on the basis of he sum of the value of
 measures to ensure that the common agricultural policy            competing products ; whereas those products are defined
 continues to operate in the dried fodder sector and, in           in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 ;
 particular, that the abovementioned aid continues to be
 granted ;
                                                                   Whereas, pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1417/78, when forward prices differ from that applying in
 Whereas, in order to determine the rate of aid, calcula­          the month when the application is lodged, the aid rate is
 tions should be based, on the one hand, on a price equal          adjusted by a correcting amount calculated from the trend
 to the guide price fixed for the 1987/88 marketing year           of forward prices ;
 and, on the other hand, on a percentage similar to that
  fixed for that marketing year under Article 5 (2) of Regu­       Whereas, where the average world market price is deter­
  lation (EEC) No 1117/78 ;                                         mined in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 1417/78, the corrective amount must be equal to the
                                                                    difference between the average world market price and
  Whereas, since the intervention price for barley in               the average forward world market price determined by
  1988/89 was not available, the amounts of aid for the             applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regula­
  months concerned, where advance fixing takes place, were          tion (EEC) No 1528/78 and valid for delivery during a
  fixed on the basis of Commission proposals to the
  Council ; whereas those amounts must be applied on a
                                                                    (3) OJ No  L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 1 .
                                                                    (4) OJ No  L 113,  30. 4. 1987, p. 13.
  (') OJ No L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1 .                              (*) OJ No  L 179,  1 . 7. 1987, p. 10.
  (*) OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 35.                            (6) OJ No  L 210,  1 . 8. 1987, p. 63.
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     month other than that in which the aid is introduced,                common price in accordance with the method laid down
     adjusted by the percentage fixed under Article 5 (2) of              in Article 70 of that Act ;
     Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 17/78 ; whereas where the average
     forward world market price for one or more months                    Whereas, pursuant to Articles 120 (2) and 306 (2) of the
    cannot be determined by applying the criteria laid down               Act of Accession, the additional aid applicable in these
    in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78, the                  two Member States is to be adjusted by an amount equal
    corrective amount must be fixed for the month or months               to the amount of customs duties on imports V>f these
    in question at a level such that the aid is equal to zero j          products from third countries ; whereas, in addition, in
    Whereas it has not yet been possible to fix the fixed
                                                                         Spain the amount is to be adjusted by the difference,
                                                                         multiplied by the percentage referred to in Article 5 (2) of
    amount referred to in the second subparagraph of Article             Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78, between the guide price
    3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 as regards barley               applied in Spain and the common guide price ;
    for the 1988/89 marketing year ;
                                                                         Whereas, as the result of the applications of all these
    Whereas, if the aid system is to operate normally, refunds           provisions to the offers and quotations which the
    should be calculated on the following basis ;                        Commission has recorded, the rate of the additional aid
    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­            for dried fodder must be fixed as indicated in the table
           tion to each other at any given moment within a band          annexed to this Regulation,
          of 2,25 %, a conversion rate based on their central
          rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
          the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
          tion (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­
          tion (EEC) No 1 636/87 (2),                                                            Article 1
   — for other currencies a conversion rate based on the                 1.   The rate of the aid referred to in Article 5 (3) of
          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of           Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 shall be as fixed in the
          these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­        Annex to this Regulation.
          tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
          previous indent and on the aforesaid corrective factor ;      2.    The amounts of aid shall be confirmed or replaced
                                                                        with effect from 1 June 1988 to take accotint of the
   Whereas the rate of the additional aid must be fixed once            Council decisions applicable for the 1988/89 marketing
   per month so as to ensure application of the aid from the            year.
   first day of the month following the date of its fixing ;
   Whereas, pursuant to Article 120 (1 ) of the 1985 Act of                                      Article 2
  Accession, the Spanish price must be aligned with the                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1988.
                       This   Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                       States .
                       Done at Brussels, 31 May 1988.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                  Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                     Vice-President
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                                      ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 31 May 1988 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder
                                               Aid applicable from 1 June 1988 to dried fodder
                                                                                                                                (ECU/tonne)
                                                 Fodder dehydrated by artificial heat-drying            Fodder otherwise dried
                                                            Protein concentrates
      1                                                                               Other                                      Other
                                                  Spain           Portugal          Member     Spain           Portugal         Membef
                                                                                      States                                     States
Aid                                             43,546 (')       63,481 (')        65,606 (') 0,546 (')       20,481 (')       22,606 (')
Aid in case of advance fixing for the month of :
                                                                                                                                 (ECU/tonne)
July 1988 (')                                    49,051            60,090            71,111     6,051          26,090           28,1 1 1
August 1988 (')                                  49,051            60,090            71,111     6,051          26,090           28,111
September 1988 (')                               48,545            68,574            70,605     5,545          25,574           27,605
October 1988 (')                                 55,950            76,118            78,010   12,950           33,118           35,010
November 1988 (')                                 55,559           75,720            77,619   12,559            32,720          34,619
December 1988 (')                                 55,821           75,987             77,881  12,821            32,987          34,881
January 1989 (')                                  55,377           75,534             77,437  12,377            32,534          34,437
February 1989 (')                                 55,377           75,534             77,437  12,377            32,534 .        34,437
March 1989 (')                                    55,377           75,534             77,437  12,377            32,534          34,437
(') Subject to the adoption of prices and related measures for the 1988/89 marketing year.