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REGULATION (EEC) No 2733/75 OF THE COUNCIL
of 29 October 1975
laying down rules for deriving intervention prices for common wheat and for determining certain marketing centres for cereals
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , and, moreover, where inland waterway or sea freight charges are not 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 European Economic Community ;
Whereas intervention prices for the marketing centres Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/' to be determined by the Commission must not lead 75 (*) of 29 October 1975 on the common to disturbances in the normal pattern of trade; organization of the market in cereals, and in particular Article 4 (5 ) thereof;
Whereas, to ensure the proper working of the inter Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; vention system, the selection of marketing centres other than the principal centres should be based on a geographical situation and storage facilities which Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 2727/ allow the assembly and disposal of large quantities 75 provides that derived intervention prices for of cereals, common wheat should be fixed at a level which will allow the free movement of cereals within the Community in accordance with the needs of the market; whereas to this end intervention prices should be fixed in such a way that the differences HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : between them correspond to the disparities in prices to be expected in a normal harvest under natural conditions of price formation on the market; Article 1
Whereas the level of market prices is not determined For the purpose of fixing derived intervention prices solely by the cost of transport to Duisburg, the for common wheat, market prices shall be considered marketing centre in the area of greatest deficit in the as being established under natural conditions of price north-west of the Community; whereas account formation as follows : should also be taken of the geographical situation of the surplus and deficit areas of the Community, the — in deficit areas whose supplies depend to a certain requirements of other consumer areas, imports from extent on imports, on the basis of the price at third countries and export possibilities ; wrhich imported common wheat is offered in those areas , Whereas derived intervention prices for common — in production areas whose surpluses contribute to wheat in the different marketing centres should be a certain extent to the supply of the above fixed at such a level that common wheat coming mentioned areas, on the basis of the above from other areas cannot be offered at a price below mentioned price and the cost of transport to that level ; those areas,
Whereas the calculation of derived intervention — in ports of shipment, on the basis of the price prices should be made with reference to the most in the main production area for exports and the favourable means of transport and existing tariffs; cost of transport to the main port of shipment for that area,
— in other production areas whose surpluses are (*) See page 1 of this Official Journal. likely to be exported to a certain extent, on the
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basis of the price ruling in the ports of shipment Article 7 and the cost of transport to those ports, The marketing centres to be determined pursuant to — in deficit areas other than those mentioned above, Article 4 (5 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the basis of prices in the surplus area best shall meet one of the following conditions : placed from the freight point of view, and the cost of transport to the deficit area. ( a) location in regions having an appreciable produc tion of cereals which considerably exceeds the lbcal demand either regularly or occasionally; Article 2
(b) existence of substantial storage facilities ; Where transport costs enter into the calculation of derived intervention prices for common wheat, they shall be based on the most favourable means of (c) special importance as a market for the goods inside and outside the Community. transport or combination of means of transport and on existing tariffs.
Where inland waterway or sea freight charges are not based on a tariff, the lowest average of those freight Article 8 charges recorded over a period of two months selected from the 12 months preceding the month 1 . Of the centres situated in regions of the kind during which the prices are fixed shall be taken into mentioned in Article 7 (a), only those centres shall be account . considered which have :
( a) storage facilities with technical equipment permit Article 3 ting the taking over, handling and discharge of a sufficiently large quantity of cereals ; In all cases, derived intervention prices for common wheat shall be fixed in such a way that there is no (b) transport connections favourable to the taking discrimination between Community producers and in over and, more important, the disposal of cereals. particular that common wheat coming from one region cannot be offered in another region for less than the intervention price applicable therein . 2. Of the centres meeting the conditions mentioned in Article 7 (b ) or (c), only those shall be considered whose storage facilities, technical equipment and Aritcle 4 advantageous geographical situation permit the assembly and, more important, the disposal of large homogeneous quantities of cereals. Derived intervention prices for common wheat shall in no case be fixed above the basic intervention price.
Article5¶
When the intervention price for maize provided for Each year the Council, acting on a report from the in Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC ) No 2727/75 is Commission, shall examine the results of the applica calculated, the basic intervention price which would tion of the rules laid down in the preceding Articles. have been fixed for the Community if Article 4 ( 1 ) of that Regulation had applied shall be equal to the target price for maize reduced by the difference between the target price and the basic intervention Article 10 price for barley for the marketing year in question. 1 . Council Regulation (EEC) No 131/67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 laying down rules for deriving interven Article 6 tion prices and for determining certain marketing centres for cereals, as last amended by Act of Acces Derived intervention prices for common wheat for sion (2), is hereby repealed. the marketing centres referred to in Article 4 (5 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 shall be fixed in such a way that they cannot disturb the normal (!) OJ No 120, 21 . 6. 1967, p . 2362/67. pattern of trade. (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
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2. References to the Regulation repealed by para Articles of that Regulation with those of this Regu lation. graph 1 shall be construed as references to this Regulation . Article 11
A table is provided in the Annex for the purposes This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November of correlating citations of and references to the 1975 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Luxembourg, 29 October 1975 .
For the Council
The President
G. MARCORA
ANNEX
Correlation
Regulation No 131 /67/EEC This Regulation