31975R2809

31 . 10 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 280/ 3

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2809/ 75 OF THE COUNCIL of 29 October 1975 on special measures for soya beans for the 1975 /76 marketing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN quality specified for the purpose of fixing the guide COMMUNITIES , price ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the producer Member States should be Economic Community ; required to set up the control arrangements necessary to ensure the proper functioning of its subsidy system ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/ 66/ EEC ( } ) of 22 September 1966 on the establish­ ment of a common organization of the market in oils Whereas under Article 2 (2) of the aforementioned and fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No Regulation the subsidy is to be granted for production 1 707/73 (2), and in particular Article 36 thereof ; obtained by applying an indicative yield to the surface areas sown and harvested ; whereas , in order to ensure the proper application of the subsidy system , the indi­ Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No cative yield should be determined by reference to 1 900/74 (3) of 15 July 1974 laying down special yields recorded in the principal production areas ; measures for soya beans, and in particular Article 2 (3) thereof ; Whereas the period of validity of the foregoing rules should be limited to that necessary to enable their Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; effectiveness to be assessed,

Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1900/ 74, criteria for determining the average world market price, together with general rules for HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : granting the subsidy and for the control of beans harv­ ested within the Community, should be laid down ;

Article 1 Whereas the said average world market price must be determined on the basis of the most favourable purchasing terms available on that market ; 1 . The average world market price for soya beans as referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No Whereas the figures to be taken into consideration 1900 /74 shall be determined taking into account the should be those recorded over the marketing period figures recorded over a period most representative of for Community beans in respect of offers on the the trade in beans originating in the Community in world market and prices quoted on the major interna­ respect of offers on the world market and of prices tional exchanges ; whereas, however, offers not consid­ quoted on the major international exchanges. ered representative of the true trend of the market should be ignored ; 2. The average world market price shall be deter­ mined on the basis of the average of the most favour­ Whereas under Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No able offers and quotations recorded during the period 1900 / 74 the average price must be recorded for a referred to in paragraph 1 , but excluding offers and Community frontier crossing point ; whereas in fixing quotations which cannot be regarded as representative of the true trend of the market . this point account should be taken of the extent to 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 2 adjusted if they relate to a different frontier crossing point ; The average world market price shall be determined for loose beans of standard quality delivered at Whereas such adjustment should also be made in the Rotterdam . event of any variation from the presentation and The necessary adjustments shall be made where offers (>) OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1 966 , p . 3025/66 . (*) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973 , p . 5 . and quotations do not satisfy the requirements 3 ) OJ No L 201 , 23 . 7 . 1974, p . 5 . referred to in the first paragraph .

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Article 3 2. The indicative yield shall be determined by refer­ ence primarily to the yields per hectare ascertained by Producer Member States shall set up a control system random sampling in the main production areas of the whereby, in the case of each soya bean grower to Community. whom aid is granted under Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1900/74, it may be verified that the crop area in respect of which a subsidy has been applied Article 5 for corresponds to the area on which soya has actually been sown and harvested . This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Article 4 Communities. 1 . A standard Community indicative yield for soya beans shall be determined for beans of standard It shall apply from 1 November 1975 to 31 October 1976 . quality .

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