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REGULATION ( EEC) No 2783/ 74 OF THE COUNCIL of 4 November 1974 on special measures for soya beans for the 1974/75 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN adjusted if they relate to a different frontier crossing COMMUNITIES , point ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas such adjustment should also be made in the Economic Community ; event of any variation from the presentation and quality specified for the purpose of fixing the guide Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/ price ; 66/ EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish ment of a common organization of the market in oils Whereas the producer Member States should be and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No required to set up the control arrangements necessary 1707/73 (2), and in particular Article 36 thereof ; to ensure the proper functioning of the subsidy system ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 900 /74 (3) of 15 July 1974 laying down special Whereas under Article 2 ( 2) of the aforementioned measures for soya beans , and in particular Article 2 (3) thereof ; Regulation the subsidy is to be granted for production obtained by applying an indicative yield to the surface Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; areas sown and harvested ; whereas , in order to ensure the proper application of the subsidy system , the indi Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) cative yield should be determined by reference to No 1900/74, criteria for determining the average yields recorded in the principal production areas ; world market price, together with general rules for granting the subsidy and for the control of beans harv Whereas the period of validity of the foregoing rules ested within the Community, should be laid down ; should be limited to that necessary to enable their effectiveness to be assessed ; Whereas the said average world market price must be determined on the basis of the most favourable Whereas last year certain Member States decided, purchasing terms available on that market ; while awaiting Community rules on the subject, to grant subsidies to promote the production of soya Whereas the figures to be taken into consideration beans ; whereas if the Community subsidy were to be should be those recorded over the marketing period fixed at a level lower than that for national subsidies for Community beans in respect of offers on the the abolition of those subsidies would be prejudicial world market and prices quoted on the major interna to producers who had embarked upon cultivation of tional exchanges ; whereas, however, offers not consid this crop ; whereas , in order to avoid this , Member ered representative of the true trend of the market States should be authorized , subject to certain condi should be ignored ; tions, to maintain their national subsidies for the 1974/75 marketing year, Whereas under Article 2(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC)- No 1900/74 the average price must be recorded for a Community frontier crossing point ; whereas in fixing this point account should be taken of the extent to HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : which it is representative for imports of soya beans and the point selected should accordingly be the port of Rotterdam ; whereas offers and quotations must be Article 1 (') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/ 66 . (2 ) OJ No L 175 , 29 . 6 . 1973 , p. 5 . 1 . The average world market price for soya beans as (3 ) OJ No L 201 , 23 . 7 . 1974, p. 5 . referred to in Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No
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1900/74 - shall be determined on or before 15 January Article 4 1975 . 1 . A standard Community indicative yield for soya 2. For the purpose of determining such average beans shall be determined on or before 1 5 January world market price, account shall be taken of the 1975 . figures recorded over a period most representative of the trade in beans originating in the Community in 2 . The indicative yield shall be determined for soya respect of offers on the world market and of prices beans of a standard quality. quoted on the major international exchanges. 3 . The indicative yield shall be determined by refer 3 . The average world market price shall be deter ence primarily to the yields per hectare ascertained by mined on the basis of the average of the most favour random sampling in the main production areas of the able offers and quotations recorded during the period Community . referred to in paragraph 2, but excluding offers and quotations which cannot be regarded as representative Article 5 of the true trend of the market . 1 . Until 31 October 1975 and in respect of soya Article 2 beans harvested before 1 January 1975, Member States may continue to apply their respective national The average world market price shall be determined production subsidy arrangements . for loose beans of a standard quality delivered at Rotterdam . 2. The amount of the subsidy under such arrange ments may not, however, exceed the difference The necessary adjustments shall be made where offers between the amount thereof applicable on 1 and quotations do not satisfy the requirements referred to in the first paragraph . November 1974 and that of the subsidy under Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1900/74 . Article 3 Article 6 Producer Member States shall set up a control system whereby, in the case of each soya bean grower to This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its whom aid is granted under Article 2(1 ) of Regulation publication in the Official Journal of the European ( EEC) No 1900 /74, it may be verified that the crop Communities. area in respect of which a subsidy has been applied for corresponds to the area on which soya has actually It shall apply from 1 November 1974 to 31 October been sown and harvested . 1 975 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels , 4 November 1974 .
For the Council The President
Ch . BONNET