CELEX: 51981PC0601
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Date: 1981-10-20
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) fixing for the 1981/82 marketing year the representative market price and the threshold price for olive oil and the percentages of the consumption aid to be retained in accordance with Article 11(5) and (6) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                   COM(81)601 final
                                                   Brussels . 20 October 1981
                                       Proposal for a
                                   COUNCIL REGULATION     ( EEC )
           fixing for the 1981 / 82 marketing year the representative
            market price and the threshold price for olive oil and
              the percentages of the consumption aid to be retained
             in accordance with Article 11(5 ) and ( 6 ) of Regulation
                                        No 136 / 66 / EEC
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                    ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
COM ( 81 ) 601   final
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                                  EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 « This proposal for a Regulation provides for the fixing "of the representative
->-% marl€t price, and the threshold price for olive oil for the 1981 / 82 marketing year
^ and of the percentage of the consumption aid to be assigned to recognised trade
 - organizations and for a number of measures to promote the consumption of olive ail ,.
                            i
2 . Article 7 of Council Regulation No 136 / 66 / EEC provides that the representative
        market price for olive , oil' shall be fixed at a level permitting normal' disposal of
        production, account being taken among other things of the prices of competing
        products and in particular of the outlook for such prices during the marketing year *
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3* Experience has shown that too jh i g h a ratio of olive oil price| to seed oil prices ":
        causes a drop in olive oi 1 ' consumpt ion *                       ■
   ,, In past years , particularly last year , the Commission considered that the ratio         %
    . should not exceed 2*3:1 and proposed accordingly to fix'a representative market           J -,
        price for the 1980 / 81 marketing year of 143 ECU / 100 kg * Although most of the Membep
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        States' delegations ; were agreed about the ratio the Council decided to fix a repr^f
        sentative market price of 145 ECU / 100 kg' for the marketing year * During 1981 the r|t
        of the olive oil price to the seed oil price has been on average 2*7:1 ,,         .
        As a result the Italien intervention agency has _ purchased in 61 000 t to the month
        of August during the present marketing year * Since 1 January 1981 82 000 t have been
        bought in in Greece * The cost to the Community of rtoring 100 000 t of olive oil for
        a year is 21*7 mio ECU *        x              ^                .
        Prices for seed oil ? at present being fetched in Italy and the outlook for oil seeds
        for 1982 indicate that the size of . the world soya harvest and in particular of the
        USA harvest will stop oil prices rising in the Community throughout the year *
        However , as has happened this year , monetary factors , particularly the lira-US dolla
        exchange rate , <Duld have a contrary effect * The Commission cannot therefore rule
     • out an upward trend , in seed oil prices in 1982 * It is. therefore proposed to respect
      ' the desi rable price , ratio and to fix a representative market price for the 1981 / 82
        marketing year of 145 ECU / 100 kg which is the same as for the 1980/ 81 marketing
        year* This is based i on a estimated lira price level for seed oil during 1982 roughly
        10 % higher than the ayerage of the quotations available in 1981 , which in present
        circumstances semms to be the maximum .that could occur *
 ---pagebreak--- Afticit 11 C3 ) of Regulation NO 136 /66 / EEC allow * the Member States to aaaoeiat *
one or more recognized trade organizations in management of the consumption aid
shcme * Further Article 11(6 ) of the'Regulation provides for the Council to fix the
percentage that the recognized trade associations may retain from the consumption aid
to finance their work * Experience in Italy indicates that 2% is both necessary and
sufficient ,, Thi-s.i,| slightly , more than for the last marketing year ( 1*3% ) but the
organizations in question will , from the next marketing %y ear have more managerial
work to do than in the past - In accordance with the Community provisions they must
receive tire-aid for their members and distribute it to them after making both formal
and stock record checks * These do not replace the verifications of the national
administration , with whom final responsibility lies *
Account taken of the sums available that were held back in previous marketing years ,
of the quantities marketed to which the consumption aid applies , which' are lower than
initially expected, and of the measures undertaken and to be undertaken , it is proposed
to retain 4 % of the consumption aid for measures to promote the consumption of
olive oil *
On the basis of a quantity marketed in the Member States other than Greece of
between 200 000 , t and 300 000 t this will make roughtly 5*4 to 8*1 mio ECY available *
The threshold price must be fiied to differ as normally from the market representative,
price, the difference representing landing and warehousing costs of the imported
product and the percentage of. the consumption aid to be retained *
Application of this rule gives a price of 144*09 ECU / 100 kg * .
In Greece, under the Jreaty of' Accession, one-fifth of the consumer aid applicable -
in the Community of Nine is to. be given from the 1981 / 82 marketing year onwards *
This works out at 13*55 ECU / 100 kg * The quantity marketed in Greece will be
150 000 t at nest , giving eonsumer aid expenditure in Greece of approximately
20*3 mio ECU * Retention of 4% of the aid for promotion measures as in the rest of
the Community gives' an available sum in Greece of 810 000 ECU *
 ---pagebreak---   No L 292/74                        Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 11 . 80
                                               PS0P0SAL FOR A
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC)
                fixing for the 198l /'8 2 marketing year the representative market price and the
                threshold price for olive oil and the percentages of the consumption aid to be
                  retained in accordance with Article 11.(5) and (6) of Regulation No 136/66/ EEC
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   year firstly for financing the recognized trade organiza­
  COMMUNITIES.                             '                    tions referred to in paragraph 3 of the said Article
                                                                and, secondly, for financing measures to promote the
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         consumption of olive oil in the Community ; whereas
  Economic Community, ■                                         the said percentages should be fixed for the 1981 / 1982
  Havirg regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC             marketing year,
  of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a
  common organization of the market in oils and                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  fats ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 3454 /80 (2), and in particular the second subparagraph ,                               Article 1
  of Article 4 (4) and Article 1 1 (6) thereof;
                                                                For the 1981 /82 marketing year, the representative
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,            market price and the threshold price for olive oil shall
                                                                be fixed as follows :       "
  Whereas the representative market price should be
  fixed in accordance with the criteria laid down in Arti­      – representative ,
  cles 7 and 10 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC ;                        market price ;      145-00 ECU per 100 kilograms ;
  Whereas the threshold priie should be fixed in such a         – threshold price : 144,09 ECU per 100 kilograms.
  way that the selling pricfe for the imported product at                                Article 2        ..
  the frontier crossing point fixed in application of
  Article 9 of Regulation Nc| 136/66/EEC is the same as          1 . For the 1981 /82 marketing year, the percentage
  the representative market price, account being taken           of the consumption aid, referred to in Article 11 (5) of
  of the effect of the measures referred to in Article 1 1       Regulation No 136/66/ EECL is hereby fixed at 2 .
  (6) of the above Regulation ;       -          1 !,
                                                                 2.    For the 1981 /82 marketing year, the percentage
  Whereas it follows from the application of these               of the consumption aid             be allocated for the
  criteria that the representative market price and the          campaigns and projects refe^d to in Article 1 1 (6) of
  threshold price should be fixed at the ltvels given in         Regulation No 136/66/ EEC% hereby fixed at 4 ^
   Article 1 of this Regulation : '          ,      '>
                                                                                          Articléii
  Whereas, under Article, 1 1 (5) and (6) of Regulation
   No » 36/66/ EEC, a certain percentage of the consump­         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
   tion aid should be used during each olive marketing           1981 . .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 Stated
                 Done at
                                                                              For the Council
' (' ) OJ No 172. 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.       '!
   OOjNoL 360 •, " 31 . 12 . 1980 , p . 16 .
 ---pagebreak---                       FINANCIAL                  STATEMENT
                                                                                                  Date :
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 1 . BUDGE " HEADING
                                        6312 *■ 6313 - 6314                                      APPR0BIATI0NS I
                                                                                                                     154*84 M EUA
 2. TITLE : Draft Council Regulation fixing ,, for the 1981 / 82 marketing yea r, the repre'
 sentative market price and the threshold price for olive oil and the percentages
 of the consumption aid to be retained *                                       >      '
 J~. LEGAL BASIS               Articles 4 and 11 of Regulation No 136 / 66 / EEC ,
       AIMS Of PROJECT : fixing the representative market price and the threshold price for
olive oil and the percentages of the consumption aid to be retained :                                                        ,
, .                          - for financing Any tasks entrusted to trade organisations ;
                             - for fiancing some promotional campaigns *
 5 . FINANCIAL' IMPLICATIONS,                             PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS     CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR    FOLLOWING FINANCIAL TEAR
                                                                                         I     «1   }             {         5
 5.0 EXPENDITURE
        - CMARGEO T0 THE EC BUDGET
         . Cgîfjig^pSJINTERVENTIONS )                              213   m - EU ft                                  213 m EUA
        - NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
        - OTHER     '  -
 5.1 RECEIPTS '
        - OWN RESOURCES OF THE EC
          • ( LEVIES / CUSTOMS DUTIES )
        - NATIONAL-
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                                                              1983      198         1984
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  5.0 .1 . ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE                                   meaaura    limited to the marketing year                              ■■■!>>
  5.1.1     ESTIMATED RECEIPTS .--
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  5.2 KETHOD OF CALCULATION               Supposed quantity : ■                      300 000 t in the Community of 9
                                                                                     150 000 t in Greece ( 2 )                           i. .
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                                          Consumption aid ( based
                                          on the propos'ed r^resentative
                                       ;  market price)                              677*7 ECU / t in the Community . of 9
                                     ; T       .                                     135*5 ECU/ t in Greece (!_)
                                •I ,
                                                 • expenditure :                     223*6 m ECU ( agriculture), say
                                      "                                                        213 MECU ( budget )
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  6.3 WILL FUTURE BUDGET APPROBATIONS BE NECESSARY ?,                         1982 ( 1 )                                       : EGG/ NO
                                                                       for the total of these            measures
  OBSERVATIONS :         ( 1 ) The 1982 budget appropria tion amounts to 216 m EUA                                                    -
                         ( 2)  On the basis of the lates t                    information in respect of earlier marke-
ting' years , the quantity qualifying for a id could be lower than - that given in this
statement * Moreover , the mount charged to the budget is the amount benefitting from
 consumption aid reduced by the asount for which an import security is- obtained durir
 the same period , in pursuance of Article 14(4 ) of Regulation 3172 / 80 *
                         ( 3)  Based on Article 68 of th e                    Treaty of Accession the aid applications
Greece during the . ,1981 / 82 marketing year is 1 / 5 th of Community aid *