CELEX: 31969R0831
Language: en
Date: 1969-05-02 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 831/69 of the Council of 2 May 1969 amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in cereals

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                                REGULATION (EEC) No 831/69 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 2 May 1969
               amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in
                                                         cereals
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas Article 22a of Regulation No 120/67/EEC
                                                                provides for the purchase of cereals or flour on the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    Community market or the use of the cereals held by
 European Economic Community, and in particular                 intervention agencies in order to meet the obligations
 Article 43 thereof;                                             arising under the Food Aid Convention, to which the
                                                                 European Economic Community is a party ; whereas
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;             certain countries benefiting from this aid may require,
                                                                 besides cereals or flour, products processed from
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                   cereals ; whereas Article 22a should, therefore, be
 Parliament1 ;                                                   amended in order to take the latter possibility into
                                                                 account ;
Whereas in accordance with Article 9 ( 1 ) of Council
Regulation No 120/67/EEC2 of 13 June 1967 on the                Whereas, within the framework of international
common organisation of the market in cereals, as last           obligations concerning cereals, the Community is
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 289/69,3 a                       required to furnish certain information about the
carry-over payment may be granted in respect of                 development of its market; whereas, therefore,
stocks of cereals in hand at the end of the marketing           provision should be made for Member States to
year; whereas, in certain regions of the Community,             furnish the      Commission       with  the  necessary
cereals from the new harvest may be marketed before              information;
31 July, so that it is not always possible to
distinguish them from the cereals of the previous               Whereas it is apparent that certain descriptions of
harvest; whereas provision should, therefore, be                products or expressions used in the German text of
made, in the Member States concerned, for limiting              Regulation No 120/67/EEC do not correspond to the
the stocks qualifying for the payment to the                    terminology in general use ; whereas, therefore, this
quantities declared to the competent authorities                terminology should be adopted in the German text of
before the end of the marketing year, so that cereals           the Regulation;
from the new harvest do not benefit from this
payment;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas according to Article 4 (2) of the Wheat
Trade Convention, to which the European Economic
                                                                                        Article 1
Community is a party, member countries which
import wheat and wheat flour must purchase as large
a proportion as possible of their requirements from             Regulation No 120/67/EEC shall be amended in
other countries which are parties to the Convention;             accordance with the following Articles .
whereas, for this purpose, provision should be made
for the issue of import licences to be suspended as far                                 Article 2
as may be necessary for compliance with this
Convention ;
                                                                The following sentence shall be added to the first
                                                                subparagraph of Article 9 ( 1 ):
1 OJ No C 41, 1.4.1969, p. 36.                                       'However, for Member States in which the new
2 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2269/67.                                  harvest is usually available before the beginning
3 OJ No L 41, 18.2.1969, p. 1 .                                      of the new marketing year, it may be decided in
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    accordance with the procedure referred to in                   'Member States        and the Commission shall
    paragraph 6, that the stock qualifying for the                 communicate to        each other the information
    payment at the end of the marketing year may                   necessary for implementing this Regulation and for
    not be greater than that declared at an earlier                complying with the international obligations
    date, to be determined in each year.'                          concerning cereals. Rules for the communication
                                                                   and distribution of such information shall be
                        Article 2
                                                                   adopted in accordance with the procedure laid
                                                                   down in Article 26 .'
1 . The following subparagraph shall be inserted
between the first and second subparagraphs of Article                                   Article 6
12 ( 1 ):
    'However, the issue of import licences for wheat          In the German text :
    and wheat flour shall be suspended in respect of
    imports from countries which are not parties to           ( a) In Article 1 (c) and Article 11 ( 1 ) (c), the words
    the Wheat Trade Convention when compliance                      ' Griitze und GrieS' shall be substituted for the
    with the obligations entered into within the                     words 'Grobgriefi und FeingrieE'.
    framework of that Convention so requires.'
                                                              (b ) In Annex A, the following shall be substituted for
2. In the second subparagraph of Article 12 ( 1 ),                  the description of products falling within heading
the words 'such import or export licences' shall be                 No ex 11.02 of the Common Customs Tariff :
substituted for the words 'such licences '.
                                                                    'Grütze und Grieß ; Getreidekörner, geschält,
                                                                    periförmig geschliffen, geschrotet oder gequetscht
                        Article 4                                    (einschließlich Flocken), ausgenommen enthülster,
                                                                    geschliffener oder glasierter Reis und Bruchreis;
The following paragraphs shall be substituted for                   Getreidekeime, auch gemahlen :
paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 22a :
                                                                    ex A. Grütze und Grieß, ausgenommen Grütze
    '1.    Obligations arising under the Food Aid                            und Grieß von Weizen und von Reis
    Convention shall be met by the purchase on the
    Community market of the products listed in                           B. Getreidekörner (geschält)
    Article 1 or by the use of cereals held by                           C. Getreidekörner, periförmig geschliffen
    intervention agencies .'
                                                                         D. Getreidekörner,     nur   geschrotet   oder
    '3 . In exceptional circumstances the products                           gequetscht
    listed in Article 1 may be mobilised by purchases
    on the world market. Detailed rules for the                      ex E. Flocken, ausgenommen Reisflocken
    application of this paragraph shall be adopted in
    accordance with the procedure laid down in                           F. Getreidekeime, auch gemahlen.'
    Article 26.'
                                                                                        Article 7
                        Article 5
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
The following shall be substituted for the text of            following its publication in the Official Journal of the
Article 24 :                                                  European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 2 May 1969.
                                                                                       For the Council
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                         G. THORN