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REGULATION (EEC) No 1407/72 OF THE COUNCIL of 27 June 1972 fixing, for the 1972/73 marketing year, the monthly price increases for cereals and wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas, since the selling period for barley and for maize is shorter than the selling period for cereals of breadmaking quality, a scale of price variations should be fixed, beginning on 1 October and spread Having regard to the Treaty establishing the over a period of eight months ; whereas account European Economic Community; should also be taken of the special uses of rye in certain regions of the Community and consequently a scale of price variations should be fixed for that Having regard to Council Regulation No cereal beginning on 1 September and spread over a 120/67/EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common period of nine months ; organization of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 796/72,2 and in particular Article 6 (2) thereof; Whereas the monthly increases in the threshold prices for other feedgrain must be fixed at the same level and for the same period as for barley and maize Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; in order to maintain for the whole of the marketing year the established ratio between the threshold Whereas, when the number and the amount of the prices for the various types of feedgrain ; monthly price increases and the first month during which these are to apply are fixed, both the storage Whereas, since the marketing of maize begins later, it costs and interest charges for storing cereals in the is necessary to depart from the system applicable to Community and the need to ensure that the disposal barley and to set 1 November as the date for the of stocks of cereals conforms to market requirements commencement of the monthly increases in the and the necessary ratio between the market prices for intervention price for this cereal, and to fix the the various classes of feedgrain should be taken into amount of these increases at a level higher than that account ; for barley, in order not to alter the present ratio between the intervention prices for barley and for maize ; Whereas to this end it should be laid down that the monthly increases for common and durum wheat should commence on 1 September and for common wheat the total of these should be fixed at 10-70 units of account per metric ton ; whereas, in view of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : . higher financing costs for durum wheat, the amount of the monthly increases for this cereal should be Article 1 fixed at a level higher than that for common wheat;

For the 1972/73 marketing year the monthly increases to be applied to the target prices, threshold prices and intervention prices for the products listed 1 OJ No L 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2269/67. in Article 1 (a), (b ) and (c) of Regulation No 2 OJ No L 94, 21.4.1972, p . 7. 120/67/EEC are fixed by this Regulation.

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Article2¶

The monthly increases to be applied to the target price and the threshold price for common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley and maize, operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows : (u.a. /lOOO kg) Common wheat Durum wheat Rye Barley Maize

August — — — — — 1-07 1-13 0-96 — — September October 2-14 2-26 1-92 0-85 0-85 November 3-21 3-39 2-88 1-70 1-70 December 4-28 4-52 3-84 2 -55 2-55 January 5-35 5-65 4-80 3-40 3-40 February 6-42 6-78 5-76 4-25 4-25 March 7-49 7-91 6-72 5-10 5-10 April 8-56 9-04 7-68 5-95 5-95 May 9-63 10-17 8-64 6-80 6-80 June 10-70 11-30 8-64 6-80 6-80 July 10-70 11-30 8-64 6-80 6-80

Article3¶

The monthly increases to be applied to the intervention price for common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley and maize, operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows : (u . a . / 1000 kg) Common wheat Durum wheat Rye Barley Maize

— — — — — August 1-07 1-13 0-96 — — September October 2-14 2-2 6 1-92 0-85 — November 3-21 3-39 2-88 1-70 1-04 December 4-28 4-52 3-84 2-55 1-04 January 5-35 5-65 4-80 3-40 2-08 February 6-42 6-78 5-76 4-25 3-12 March 7-69 7-91 6-72 5-10 4-16 April 8-56 9-04 7-68 5-95 5-20 May 9-63 10-17 8-64 6-80 6-24 — — — — 6-24 June — — — — 6-24 July

Article4¶

1 . The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for oats, buckwheat, millet, canary seed and sorghum, operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be the same as the monthly increases applicable to the threshold price for barley.

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2. The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for meslin, operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be the same as the monthly increases applicable to the threshold price for common wheat.

Article5¶

The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for wheat, meslin on rye flour and to the threshold price for groats and meal of common or of durum wheat, operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows : (tt.aJlOOO kg) Wheat and Groats and Groats and mesiin flour Rye flour • meal of meal of common wheat durum wheat

— — — — August September 1-50 1-34 1-50 1-78 October 3-00 2-68 3-00 3-56 November 4-50 4-02 4-50 5-34 December 6-00 5-36 6-00 7-12 January 7-50 6-70 7-50 8-90 February 9-00 8-04 9-00 10-68 March 10-50 9-38 10-50 12-46 April 12-00 10-72 12-00 14-24 May 13-50 12-06 13-50 16-02 June 15-00 13-40 15-00 17-80 July 15-00 13-40 15-00 17-80

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

Done at Luxembourg, 27 June 1972.

For the Council The President G. THORN