CELEX: 31973R2104
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2104/73 of the Council of 1 August 1973 on the transfer to and sale by the Italian intervention agency of common wheat held by the German, French and Belgian intervention agencies

No L 214/2                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               2. 8 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2104/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 1 August 1973
               on the transfer to and sale by the Italian intervention agency of common wheat
                         held by the German, French and Belgian intervention agencies
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas detailed rules for taking over the wheat and
COMMUNITIES,                                                     for the transfer of responsibility should be laid down ;
                                                                 Whereas, to ensure that none of the intervention agen­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            cies concerned is required to part with virtually its
Economic Community ;                                             entire stock of common wheat within a short space of
                                                                 time, it should be specified that the quantities of
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                      wheat taken over by the Italian intervention agency
67/EEC (1) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­               from each of the other intervention agencies should
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the            be in proportion to the tonnages that these agencies
Act of Accession (2), and in particular Article 7 (4)            are making available, to it ;
thereof ;
                                                                 Whereas provision should be made for this operation
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     being integrated into the arrangements contained in
729/70(3) of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the               Council Regulation (EEC) No 787/69 (9) of 22 April
common agricultural policy, as last amended by Regu­              1969 on the financing of intervention on the internal
lation (EEC) No 1 566/72 (4), and in particular Article          market in cereals and in rice, as last amended by Regu­
3 (2) thereof ;                                                  lation (EEC) No 2092/70 (10) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 132/
67/EEC (5) of 13 June 1967 laying down general rules             Whereas this operation implies that the Guarantee
for intervention on the market in cereals, as amended            Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and
by Regulation (EEC) No 1938/70 (6), and in particular            Guarantee Fund must assume responsibility for trans­
Article 4 thereof ;                                              port costs ; whereas it should also be understood that
                                                                  the Community's monetary regulations will not apply
                                                                  to this operation ;
Whereas a number of areas of Italy are at present ex­
 periencing considerable difficulty in procuring
supplies of wheat to feed the population ; whereas a             Whereas, to enable the wheat to be sold on the Italian
 first step towards remedying this situation was taken            market by the Italian intervention agency, the provi­
with Council Regulation (EEC) No 1984/73 (7) of 19                sions governing the sale of cereals held by interven­
July 1973 defining special conditions for the sale of             tion agencies should be waived and special conditions
 common wheat held by the Italian intervention                    analogous to those defined by Regulation (EEC) No
 agency, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2103/73 (8)               1984/73 adopted ;
 authorizing the sale by mutual agreement of the entire
 tonnage of common wheat held by the Italian inter­
 vention agency ; whereas the tonnage of wheat thus
 sold on the Italian market has not proved sufficient to
 festore the supply situation to normal ; whereas it
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 seems that this can be achieved only by making some
 of the common wheat still held by intervention agen­
 cies of a number of other Member States available to
 the Italian intervention agency so that it can be put
 on the market in areas where the supply situation is                                      Article 1
 still unsatisfactory ; whereas the German, French and
 Belgian intervention agencies are holding certain
 quantities of wheat ;                                            The German, French and Belgian intervention agen­
                                                                   cies shall, until 30 September 1970, hold 150 000,
 (1) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                           47 000 and 3 000 metric tons respectively of common
 (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                              wheat at the disposal of the Italian intervention
 (3) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 13.                              agency which may take delivery of it under the condi­
 («) OJ No L 167, 25 . 7. 1972, p . 5 .                            tions specified in Articles 2 to 5.
 (5) OJ No 120, 21 . 6 . 1967, p. 2364/67.
 ¥) OJ No L 215, 30. 9. 1970, p. 1 .
 (7) OJ No L 201 , 21 . 7. 1973, p . 43 .                          (9) OJ No L 105, 2. 5. 1969, p. 4.
 (8) See p. 1 of this Official Journal .                           (10) OJ No L 232, 21 . 10. 1970, p. 3 .
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                       Article 2                                                     Article 6
The Italian intervention agency shall take delivery of       1 . By way of derogation from Article 3 of Regula­
the wheat at the place in which it is stored, thereupon      tion No 132/67/EEC, the Italian Republic is hereby
assuming responsibility for it.                              authorized to sell the wheat taken over, by mutual
                                                             agreement, on the terms laid down in this Article.
                       Article 3
                                                             2. The Italian Republic shall take all necessary
The Italian intervention agency shall, as far as             steps to ensure that the wheat sold under this Regula­
possible, take over wheat from each of the interven­         tion is used exclusively for the manufacture of food­
tion agencies referred to in Article 1 in proportion to      stuffs to be supplied to the populations concerned.
the quantities put at its disposal by each of them.
                                                             3 . Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
In any event quantities taken over must be in propor­        376/70 (*) of 27 February 1970 laying down the proce­
tion to quantities made available by 30 September            dure and conditions for the disposal of cereals held by
1973 .                                                       intervention agencies, as last amended by Regulation
                                                             (EEC) No 129/73 (2), which specifies the information
                       Article 4                             to be forwarded to the Commission, shall apply by
                                                             analogy.
1 . The German, French and Belgian intervention
agencies shall show the quantities of common wheat           4. The price at which the product shall be sold by
transferred under Article 1 as a zero debit on the           the intervention agency shall be governed by Article 3
account referred to in Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation         (2) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 376/70 .
(EEC) No 787/69.
                                                             However, when the sale relates to a delivery to a place
2. The Italian intervention agency shall show wheat          other than the place in which it is stored, the selling
taken over by it under Article 1 as a zero credit on the     price shall correspond to the local market price in the
account referred to in paragraph 1 .                         place where the product is stored, plus the cost of
                                                             transporting it to the place of delivery.
                       Article 5
                                                                                     Article 7
The cost of transporting the quantities of common
wheat specified in Article 1 shall be entered on the         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
account referred to in Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation         publication in the Official Journal of the European
(EEC) No 787/69.                                             Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 1 August 1973 .
                                                                         For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                          I. N0RGAARD
                                                             (!) OJ No L 47, 28 . 2. 1970 , p. 49 .
                                                              2 OJ No L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973 , p. 17.