CELEX: 31984R1865
Language: en
Date: 1984-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1865/84 of 29 June 1984 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

30. 6. 84                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 172/71
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1865/84
                                                       of 29 June 1984
                                     fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­
                                                                  mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            the frontier crossing point (9), as last amended by
 Economic Community,                                              Regulation (EEC) No 1983/82 (10), fixed the said cros­
                                                                  sing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC                Regulation provides that when the world market price
 of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a                   is being determined account should be taken of all
 common organization of the market in oils and fats ('),          offers on the world market known to the Commission
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 101 /84 Q,              and of quotations on those exchanges which are signi­
 and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof,                        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
 1223/83 of 20 May 1983 on the exchange rates to be               market price for oil seeds ("), as last amended by
 applied in agriculture (3), as last amended by Regula­           Regulation (EEC) No 1326/84 (12), provides that offers
 tion (EEC) No 855/84 (<),                                        and quotations which do not relate to shipments to be
                                                                  effected within 30 days following the date on which
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     the world market price is determined should be disre­
 1569/72 of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures             garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the
 for colza, rape and sunflower seed (*), as last amended          Commission believes, in view of general price move­
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1474/84 (6), and in particular            ments or information available to it, not to be repre­
                                                                  sentative of the real trend of the market must also be
Article 2 (3) thereof,
                                                                  disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating to
 Committee,                                                       seed of a quality other than that normally acceptable
                                                                  on the world market must also be disregarded ;
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC
 provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of
oil seeds harvested and processed within the Commu­               Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC
 nity when the target price for a species of seed is              provides that of the offers and quotations taken into
 higher than the price on the world market ; whereas              consideration, those for delivery c and f should be
 these provisions at present apply only in respect of             increased by 0,2 % ; whereas offers and quotations for
 colza, rape and sunflower seeds ;                                delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased, as
                                                                  appropriate, by loading, transport and insurance costs
Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically,           from the point of shipment or loading to the frontier
be equal to the difference between those two prices ;             crossing point ; whereas cif offers and quotations for
                                                                  frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should
Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in             be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and
the target price for oil seeds for the 1984/85 marketing          insurance costs as compared with a product delivered
year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 1 102/84 Q                cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take
and (EEC) No 1 103/84 (8) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu­           account only of the loading, transport and insurance
lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market               costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas,
price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing               finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam
point, is to be determined on the basis of the most               should be increased by 0,242 ECU ;
favourable purchasing opportunities, quotations being
adjusted where necessary to take account of quotations
for competing products ;                                          Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC
                                                                  provides that the world market price should be deter­
(') OJ  No  172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.                         mined for seed of the standard quality for which the
0   OJ  No  L 113, 28. 4. 1984, p. 7.                             target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ;
(3) OJ  No  L 132, 21 . 5. 1983, p. 33.
(4) OJ  No  L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9.                             O OJ No     111 , 10. 6. 1967, p. 21 96/67.
(6) OJ  No  L 143, 30. 5. 1984, p. 4.                             0°) OJ No    L 215, 23.  7. 1982, p. 6.
0   OJ  No  L 113, 28 . 4. 1984, p. 8 .                           (") OJ No    136, 30. 6.  1967, p. 2919/67.
(•) OJ  No L 113, 28 . 4. 1984, p. 10.                            H OJ No      L 129, 15.  5. 1984, p. 15.
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Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC                Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for
provides that offers and quotations relating to products     the purpose of determining that margin are defined in
presented otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted          Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no
by deducting the additional value resulting from that        adjustment should be made where the margin is found
presentation ; whereas offers and quotations relating to     to be less than 0,604 ECU :
a quality other than the standard quality for which the
target price was fixed should be adjusted on the basis
of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex        Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14
to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case of offers on       June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down
the world market for qualities of colza and rape seed        rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas,
other than those listed in that Annex, coefficients of       under that Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted
equivalence derived from those listed in that Annex          is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must
may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 225/             be equal to the amount applicable on the day on
67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived coef­             which the application for advance fixing was lodged,
ficients are being calculated, account must be taken of      adjusted by the difference between the target price
the differences between prices for the qualities of seed     valid on that day and the target price valid on the day
in question and prices for the qualities listed in that      on which the seeds are placed under control at an oil
Annex, and of the characteristics of these various           or feed mill and, where appropriate, a corrective
seeds :
                                                             amount ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regula­
                                                             tion (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying
                                                             down detailed rules for the application of the subsidy
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                system for oil seeds, as amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                             No 1814/84 (2), provides that such adjustment should
providies that, where no offer or quotation can be used      involve increasing or reducing the amount of subsidy
as a basis for determining the world market price, that
price should be determined on the basis of the value         applicable on the day on which the application was
of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting      lodged by the corrective amount and the difference
from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within          between the target prices mentioned in Article 35 of
the Community less an amount corresponding to the            Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 ;
cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ;
whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into
consideration for the purposes of the calculation are
fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ;
whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­       Whereas Article 37 of Regulation No 2681 /83
mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­           provides that the corrective amount must be equal to
tion ;                                                       the difference between the world market price for
                                                             colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price
                                                             for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during
                                                             the month in which the seeds were placed under
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC                control at an oil mill, those prices being determined in
provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used       accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation No
as a basis for determining the world market price and         1 15/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer and no price can be
where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value     used for such determination, the method of calculation
of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the         provided for in Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No
world market price should be determined on the basis          2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the abovementioned
of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake,
                                                             difference may be adjusted in accordance with Article
adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices        38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account being
for competing products by applying to that value the         taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ;
rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No 115/
 67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/
 67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or
oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have          Whereas Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83
been offered in the largest quantities on the world           provides for the publication of the amount of the final
market during the period under consideration ;               subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the
                                                              national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting
                                                              from the calculation referred to above plus or minus
                                                              the differential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Regula­
Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 115/                tion (EEC) No 181 3/84 (3) defined the elements which
 67/EEC, the price determined for colza, rape and             determine the differential amounts : whereas these
sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount
 not exceeding the margin, as calculated in accordance       (■) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44.
with that Article, where that margin may affect the          (J) OJ No L 170, 29. 6. 1984, p. 44.
normal disposal of seeds harvested in the Community ;        0 OJ No L 170, 29. 6. 1984, p. 41 .
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 elements are equal to the incidence on the target price      Whereas, for the period 20 to 26 June 1984, for
 or the subsidy of the coefficient derived from the           certain currencies :
 percentage referred to in Article 2 (1 ) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 1569/72 ; whereas, according to these provi­        — for the current month, the difference referred to in
 sions, this percentage represents :                              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
                                                                   1 569/72 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
     — the conversion rate resulting from the central             tage adopted for the previous fixing ;
         rate,
 (b) for Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece, the            Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the
     difference between :                                     market situation makes it necessary and in such a way
     — the relationship between the conversion v rate         as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ;
         used under the common agricultural policy for        whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it
         the currency of the Member State concerned           becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ;
         and the central rate of each of the currencies of
         the Member States referred to in (a), and            Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to
     — the spot market rate for the currency of the           the offers and quotations known to the Commission
         Member State in question in relation to each of      that, pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No
         the currencies of the Member States referred to      2681 /83 the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the
         in (a), as recorded over a period to be deter­       amount of the subsidy in each of the national curren­
                                                              cies must be fixed in accordance with the Annex to
         mined ;
                                                              this Regulation ; whereas, pursuant to the same Article,
Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regula­           the spot and forward exchange rates for the ECU in
tion (EEC) No 1569/72, the monetary disparity for the         national currencies determined in accordance with
marketing years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated         Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 must also
by a method which takes into account a coefficient            be published,
applied to the conversion rate resulting from the
central rate ; whereas the said Article 2a fixed the coef­
ficient for the beginning of the 1984/85 marketing
year ; whereas account should be taken thereof in             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
respect of colza and rape seed with effect from 1 July
 1 984 and for sunflower seed with effect from 1 August
 1984 ;                                                                               Article 1
Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
No 1569/72 forward differential amounts are to be             The amounts of the subsidy and the exchange rates
determined where the forward exchange rate for one            referred to in Article 33 (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                              No 2681 /83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
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
exchange rates are not available, the rate adopted for                                Article 2
the previous month or the following month, as the
case may be, is to be used ;                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1984.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 29 June 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)                                   2,775              6,575              7,328              9,831            11,379            10,812
2. Final aids                                                    l\\
    Seeds harvested and processed in :        \                                     \\l
    — Federal Republic of Germany (DM)                15,75              24,56              26,45              32,60             36,28            35,86
    — Netherlands (Fl)                                11,92              21,84              23,86              30,70             34,79            34,12
    — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                              128,79              305,16             340,11             454,77           526,66            489,01
    — France (FF)                                      8,51              35,51              40,13              56,75             67,67            60,23
    — Denmark (Dkr)                                   23,35              55,33              61,67              82,73             95,75            90,18
    — Ireland (£ Irl)                                  2,082              4,932              5,491              7,299             8,462             7,838
    — United Kingdom (£)                               2,190              4,501              4,964              6,491             7,438             7,099
    — Italy (Lit)                                 3 974              9411               10 183            13 503           15 735             14 021
    — Greece (Dr)                                   206,57              554,39             622,79             851,37           992,54            940,12
                                                                     ANNEX II
                                                              Aids to sunflower seed
                                                                                                                                (amounts per 100 kilograms)
                                                     Current
                                                                           1st month             2nd month            3rd month             4th month
                                                      month
1 . Gross aids (ECU)                                                                        ||
                                                        12,347                 10,377                10,811               14,029                 14,644
2. Final aids                                                                               \
    Seeds harvested and processed in :
    — Federal Republic of Germany (DM)                 40,73                   35,53                 36,58                44,45                 46,00
    — Netherlands (Fl)                                 38,31                   32,85                 33,98                42,75                 44,42
    — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs)                                573,05                  481,62                501,76               649,36                677,90
    — France (FF)                                      73,17                   59,93                 62,30                83,81                 88,03
    — Denmark (Dkr)                                   103,90                   87,32                 90,97               118,05                123,23
    — Ireland (£ Irl)                                    9,262                  7,784                 8,102               10,435                 10,897
    — United Kingdom (£)                                 8,161                  6,929                 7,193                 9,156                 9,536
    — Italy (Lit)                                  17 681                 14 855                15 117                19 420               20 300
    — Greece (Dr)                                   1 068,52                  891,39                931,11             1 225,05              1 280,72
                                                                     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
I                                         Current
                                           month
                                                             1st month            2nd month           3rd month          4th month           5th month
DM                                         2,238330             2^32480              2,226290            2,220450           2^220450            2,202330
Fl                                         2,520860             2,514830             2,508740            2,501950           2,501950            2,483770
Bfrs/Lfrs                                 45,543800           45,640000            45,730600           45,809900          45,809900            46,097500
FF                                         6,869800             6,893770             6,919160            6,947130           6,947130            7,031060
Dkr                                        8,201700             8,220090             8,231830            8,242480           8,242480            8,262970
£ Irl                                      0,731128             0,733092             0,734935            0,736699           0,736699            0,741682
£                                          0,590481             0,590475             0,590689            0,590784           0,590784            0,591039
Lit                                    1 378,420000        1 385,420000         1 392,700000        1 399,700000       1 399,700000        1 421,830000
Dr                                        88,552000           88,552000            88,552000           88,552000          88,552000            88,552000