CELEX: 51987PC0038(01)
Language: en
Date: 1987-01-23
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 804/68 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS

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               C. The promotion of business and innovation centres in specified areas
                  Activities would include the organization of technical seminars in areas of particular interest to
                   Community regional policy where business and innovation centres are to be promoted.
               D. European Business and Innovation Centres Network — EBN
                  Community financial support might be provided to the EBN in 1988 or 1989, should self-sufficiency
                  not be attained, under present forecasts.                                                     s
                  Financial support will be given in the form of grants to annual operating expenses, on the basis of a
                  convention with the Commission and after reception of a full yearly report on past activities and
                  progress.
               Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 on the common
                                      organization of the market in milk and milk products
                                                            COM(87) 38 final
                                 (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 23 January 1987)
                                                             (87/C 33/06)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               Whereas Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       804/68 provided for the introduction of permanent
                                                                       intervention arrangements for butter and for skimmed-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  milk powder;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,
                                                                       Whereas these arrangements no longer function as a
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                       mechanism for short-therm stabilization of the market
                                                                       during the period of heavy production but have come to
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                      provide a more attractive outlet for production than the
liament,                                                               normal market outlets;
Whereas experience has clearly shown that the
application of formula B as specified in Article 5c of                 Whereas during the period when skimmed-milk
Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 ('), as last                        production is low the utilization of milk protein can be
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1335/86 (2), is not a                   secured by aid for the use of skimmed milk; whereas
sufficient deterrent to purchasers responsible for large               consequently the purchase of skimmed-milk powder by
excess quantities; whereas an allocation of the quantities             the intervention agencies should be restricted to the
not used by the purchaser in proportion to the individual              period 1 March to 31 August;
reference quantities of those producers responsible for
his reference quantity's being exceeded will make the
additional levy scheme more rigorous; whereas the rules
on the operation of formula B should be adjusted                       Whereas during the period of imposition of the
accordingly, provision being made however for dero-                    additional levy provided for in Article 5c of Regulation
gations under certain circumstances;                                   (EEC) No 804/68 the Commission should have the
                                                                       power to adjust the intervention arrangements for butter
                                                                       and for skimmed-milk powder by adopting other
Whereas the market situation for milk and milk products                measures applicable throughout the Community;
is such that it must be possible for these measures to be
applied from the beginning of the third additional levy
period on condition that interested parties have been
duly informed beforehand;                                              Whereas the Commission should have the power to
                                                                       adopt appropriate provisions should it happen that the
                                                                       measures adopted in this Regulation lead to under-
                                                                       supply of dairies that are important suppliers to the
0) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.                                    market and to over-supply of dairies that have excessive
(2) O J N o L 119, 8.5. 1986, p. 19.                                   recourse to intervention,
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                        3. The following Article 7a is added:
                                                                        'Article 7a
                           Article 1
                                                                       1.     During the period of application of the
                                                                       additional levy arrangements mentioned in Article 5c
Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 is amended as follows:
                                                                       the intervention arrangements specified in Articles 6
                                                                       (1) and 7 (1) may be modified by the Commission, in
1. In Article 5c (1) the second indent under the heading               accordance with the procedure provided for in Article
   'Formula B' shall read:                                             30, by the adoption of measures designed to reduce
                                                                       the volume of intervention purchasing without
   '— Should the quantities delivered exceed the pur-                  affecting the stability of the market.
        chaser's reference quantity he shall pass on the
                                                                       These measures shall be adopted using criteria to be
        burden of the levy in the price paid to those
                                                                       adopted by the Council, acting by a qualified majority
       producers who are responsible for the quantity's
                                                                       on a Commission proposal, before 1 March 1987.
        being exceeded, after he has allocated to them in
       proportion to their individual reference quantities             2.     Should implementation of the measures to
        the quantities available for redistribution.                   reform the market in milk and milk products occasion
                                                                       disturbance in the balance of supplies to dairies the
        Priority in reallocating the quantities available for          Commission shall adopt, in accordance with the
        redistribution may however be given to producers               procedure mentioned in Article 30, provisions
        meeting certain criteria to be established.                    designed to discourage excessive recourse to
                                                                       intervention.'
       The levy shall be charged on all quantities
        exceeding the individual reference quantities                                          Article 2
        adjusted as indicated above.'
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
                                                                    publication in the Official Journal of the European
2. Article 7 (1) shall read as follows:
                                                                     Communities.
   '1.    Under conditions determined in accordance                 The provisions of point 1 of Article 1 shall apply from 1
   with paragraph 4 the intervention agency designated              April 1987 but may however apply with effect from 1
   by each Member State shall purchase at the                       April 1986 in Member States where interested parties
   intervention price first quality skimmed-milk powder             have received the necessary prior notification.
   produced in the Community that is offered to it
   during the period 1 March to 31 August, if it reaches            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
   certain standards.'                                              directly applicable in all Member States.