31976R1833

» No L 203/28 29 . 7. 76 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1833/76 of 28 July 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71 on price increases and reductions appli cable to intervention in cereals

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN considered as feed grain and taken over for interven­ COMMUNITIES, tion at the price level for barley ; whereas, consequently, in view of Article 2a of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 of 13 July 1971 fixing the procedure and conditions for the taking over of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European cereals by intervention agencies (6), as last amended by Economic Community, Regulation (EEC) No 1832/76 (^), certain provisions contained in Articles 2, 3 (2) and 4 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71 should be amended to take into Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No account the fact that the said quality of common 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­ wheat is to be used as feed grain ; tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 143/76 (2) and in particular Articles 4 (3) and 7 (5) thereof, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Cereals, Whereas Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71 of 13 July 1971 on price increases and reductions applicable to intervention in cereals (3), as HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 548/76 (4), provides that intervention agencies may apply a special increase of 1 *50 units of account per metric ton for rye in regions where that cereal is regularly sold for bread-making, provided that it meets Article 1 minimum physical and technological criteria as to quality ; whereas, in view of the loss of interest of Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71 is farmers in the cultivation of rye in the traditional hereby amended to read as follows : production regions, the special increase which may be granted on intervention for rye should, as an incen­ tive, be raised from 1-50 to three units of account per ' 1 . Without prejudice to the provisions of metric ton ; whereas, since the criteria as to quality Article 3, the intervention agencies may apply, on required for granting the? special increase no longer intervention, a special increase of three units of correspond to present commercial practices, the said account per metric ton for rye where its particu­ Article 6 should be adapted in accordance with larly good quality is suited for bread-making, market practices ; provided that :

— the percentage of sprouted grains does not exceed 2*5 % , Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1493/71 provides that the price increases and reductions by — the percentage of broken grains does not which the intervention price is increased or reduced exceed 5 % and the percentage of grain shall be calculated by applying to the intervention impurities does not exceed 3 % , price valid at the beginning of the marketing year the percentage provided for in Articles 3, 4 and 6 thereof ; — the percentage of spontaneously fermented whereas, for the 1976/77 marketing year, common grain does not exceed 0-05 % wheat not meeting the conditions of Commission — the percentage of grains heated during drying Regulation (EEC) No 1831 /76 of 28 July 1976 laying operations does not exceed 0-50 % , down the method for determining the minimum bread-making quality of common wheat required for — the amylogramme units, based on full milling, intervention in the 1976/77 marketing year (5), will be including the germ, with a hardening tempera­ ture of the starch of at least 63° , are not less 0) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . than 200 units .' (2) OJ No L 130, 19 . 5. 1976, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 157, 14. 7. 1971 , p. 21 . («) OJ No L 171 , 30. 6. 1976, p. 28 . (*) OJ No L 157, 14. 7. 1971 , p. 18 . (5) See page 20 of this Official Journal . (7) See page 26 of this Official Journal.

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Article 2 of broken grains exceeds separately 4 % , and the percentage of sprouted grains exceeds The following Article 6a is hereby added to Regula­ 2 5 % , a reduction of 0-05 % shall be applied tion (EEC) No 1493/71 : for each excess of 01 % . 'Article 6a 4. For the purposes of applying the third indent 1 . Where common wheat does not meet the of Article 2a of Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 , the minimum requirements for bread-making as laid following shall be added to the list of reductions set out in Table II of the Annex for common down in Regulation (EEC) No 1831 /76, it shall be wheat with a specific weight differing from the taken over by the intervention agencies at the specific weight of the standard quality : price level for barley.

2. Where the first paragraph of Article 2 applies, the intervention price for the common (kg/hi) ( % ) wheat referred to in paragraph 1 shall be that appli­ cable to barley. Less than 72 to 71 1.75 3. By way of derogation from Article 4 (1 ) and Less than 71 to 70 2.25 (2), the reductions to be applied to the common Less than 70 to 69 2.75 ' wheat referred to in paragraph 1 shall be calcu­ lated as follows : (a) where the percentage of miscellaneous impuri­ Article 3 ties (Schwarzbesatz) exceeds 1 % , a reduction of This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 0*1 % shall be applied for each excess of 0-1 % ; following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. (b) where the percentage of grain impurities excluding shrivelled grain and the percentage It shall apply with effect from 1 August 1976.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 July 1976.

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission