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2362/67 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 21.6.67

REGULATION No 131 /67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL

of 13 June 1967 laying down rules for deriving intervention prices and for determining certain marketing centres for cereals

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC moreover, where waterway freight charges are not COMMUNITY, based on a tariff, the lowest freight charges recorded over a reference period should be taken into account; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ pean Economic Community ; Whereas intervention prices for the marketing centres to be determined by the Commission must not lead Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/ to disturbances in the normal pattern of trade ; EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation • of the market in cereals, and in particular Article Whereas, to ensure the proper working of the inter­ 4 (5 ) thereof; vention system, the selection of marketing centres other than the principal centres should be based on a Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; geographical situation and storage facilities which allow the assembly and disposal of large quantities of cereals . Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC provides that derived intervention prices should be fixed at a level which will allow the free movement Whereas, in order to assist the gradual transition of cereals within the Community in accordance with from the system in force in the Member States for de­ the needs of the market; whereas to this end inter­ termining marketing centres to the system established vention prices should be fixed in such a way that the by this Regulation, provision should be made for differences between them correspond to the dispari­ taking special measures for a limited period ; ties in prices to be expected in a normal harvest under natural conditions of price formation on the market; . HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the level of market prices is not determined solely by the cost of transport to Duisburg, the mar­ Article 1 keting centre in the area of greatest deficit in the north-west of the Community ; whereas account For the purpose of fixing derived intervention prices, should also be taken of the geographical situation of market prices shall be considered as being established the surplus and deficit areas of the Community, the under natural conditions of price formation as fol­ requirements of other consumer areas, imports from lows : third countries and export possibilities ; — in deficit areas whose supplies depend to a certain . Whereas derived intervention prices in the different extent on imports, on the basis of the price at marketing centres should be fixed at such a level that which imported cereals are offered in those areas ; cereals coming from other areas cannot be offered at — in production areas whose surpluses contribute to a price below that level ; a certain extent to the supply of the above-men­ tioned areas , on the basis of the above-mentioned Whereas the calculation of derived intervention prices price and the cost of transport to those areas ; should be made with reference to the most favour­ able means of transport and existing tariffs ; and — in ports of shipment, on the basis of the price in the main production area for exports and the cost of transport to the main port of shipment for that 1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p . 2269/67. area ;

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— in other production areas whose surpluses are Article 7 likely to be exported to a certain extent, on the basis of the price ruling in the ports of shipment 1 . When derived intervention prices for barley and and the cost of transport to those ports ; maize for Italy are fixed, account shall be taken of the effect of the measures taken in application of — in deficit areas other than those mentioned above, Article 23 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC. on the basis of prices in the surplus area best placed from the freight point of view, and the 2 . If a single intervention price is fixed for maize, cost of transport to the deficit area. paragraph 1 shall not apply to that cereal.

Article2¶

Where transport costs enter into the calculation of The marketing centres to be established in appli­ derived intervention prices, they shall be based on the cation of Article 4 (5 ) ( a) of Regulation No 120/67/ most favourable means of transport or combination EEC shall meet one of the following conditions : of means of transport and on existing tariffs. (a) location in regions having an appreciable pro­ duction of cereals which considerably exceeds the Where inland waterway or sea freight charges are not local demand either regularly or occasionally; based on a tariff, the lowest average of these freight charges recorded over a period of two months (b) existence of substantial storage facilities ; selected from the twelve months preceding the month during which the prices are fixed shall be taken into (c) special importance as a market for the goods account . inside and outside the Community.

Article9¶

1 . Of the centres situated in regions of the kind In all cases, derived intervention prices shall be fixed mentioned in Article 8 ( a ), only those centres which in such a way that there is no discrimination between meet the following conditions shall be considered : Community producers and in particular that cereals those having coming from one region cannot be offered in another region for less than the intervention price applicable (a) storage facilities with technical equipment permit­ therein . ting the intake, treatment and continuous dis­ charge of a reasonably large quantity of cereals ; Article 4 (b) transport connections favourable to the taking over and, more important, the disposal of cereals. Derived intervention prices shall in no case be fixed above the basic intervention price. 2 . Of the centres meeting the conditions men­ I tioned in Article 8 ( b ) or ( c), only those shall be con­ sidered whose storage facilities, technical equipment Article 5 and advantageous geographical situation permit the assembly and, more important, the disposal of large When the intervention price for maize provided for in ' homogeneous quantities of cereals. Article 4 (2) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC is calcu­ lated, the basic intervention price which would have been fixed for the Community if Article 4 ( 1 ) of that Article 10 Regulation had applied shall be equal to the target price for maize reduced by the difference between the Each year the Council, acting upon a report from the target price and the basic intervention price for barley Commission, shall examine the results of the appli­ for the marketing year in question. cation of the rules laid down in the preceding Articles .

Article 6 Article 11 Derived intervention prices for the marketing centres referred to in Article 4 (5 ) ( a) of Regulation No 120/ 1 . The provisions of Article 2 may be derogated 67/EEC shall be fixed in such a way that they cannot from in the fixing of derived intervention prices for disturb the normal pattern of trade. the 1967/68 marketing year.

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2. The provisions of Articles 8 and 9 may be dero­ the full application of the rules laid down in Articles gated from in the determination of the marketing 8 and 9 shall be taken into consideration . centres referred to in Article 4 (5 ) (a) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC for the 1967/68 and 1968 /69 mar­ keting years . Article 12

In such cases the need to move progressively towards This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1967.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 13 June 1967.

For the Council

The President Ch . HEGER

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