31969R0831

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6.5.69 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 107/ 1

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 cereals ; whereas Article 22a should, therefore, be Having regard to the Opinion of the European amended in order to take the latter possibility into Parliament1 ; account ; Whereas in accordance with Article 9 ( 1 ) of Council Whereas, within the framework of international Regulation No 120/67/EEC2 of 13 June 1967 on the obligations concerning cereals, the Community is common organisation of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 289/69,3 a required to furnish certain information about the development of its market; whereas, therefore, carry-over payment may be granted in respect of provision should be made for Member States to stocks of cereals in hand at the end of the marketing furnish the Commission with the necessary year; whereas, in certain regions of the Community, information ; cereals from the new harvest may be marketed before 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 adopted in accordance with the procedure laid Article 2 down in Article 26 .'

1 . The following subparagraph shall be inserted between the first and second subparagraphs of Article Article 6 12 ( 1 ): In the German text : 'However, the issue of import licences for wheat 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 B. Getreidekörner (geschält) Community market of the products listed in 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 F. Getreidekeime, auch gemahlen .' accordance with the procedure laid down in 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