31980R0953
18 . 4. 80 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 101 /43
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 953/80 of 17 April 1980 fixing the world market price for colza and rape seed
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN — the application of the common agricultural policy, COMMUNITIES, — the special trade arrangements for goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas the period of validity of the aforesaid Regula Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC tion was limited to 31 March 1980 ; whereas it has not of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a been possible for a prolongation of those arrange common organization of the markets in oils and ments, proposed by the Commission, to be adopted in fats (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No time by the Council ; whereas, in order to avoid a 590/79 (2), break in the arrangements resulting, in particular, in alterations in the level of prices and of other amounts Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No in national currency, it appears necessary, in the 1569/72 of 20 July 1972 laying down special manifest public interest, as a precautionary measure measures for colza and rape seed (3), as last amended and pending a final decision on the matter by the by Regulation (EEC) No 852/78 (4), Council , to continue the application of the arrange ments in their present form ; Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2300/73 of 23 August 1973 laying down detailed Whereas, if the price system is to operate normally, rules for applying differential amounts for colza and the world market price should be calculated on the rape seed and repealing Regulation (EEC) No following basis : 1 464/73 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 336/80 (6), and in particular Article 9 (4) thereof, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other at any given moment within Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on Committee, their effective parity ;
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas, pursuant to Article 9 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2300/73, the Commission must determine the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period in world market price for colza and rape seed ; relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent ; Whereas the world market price should be deter mined in accordance with the rules and the criteria 1 1 it follows from applying these provisions that the world market price for colza and rape seed should be set out in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 620/80 as set out in the Annex hereto, of 1 3 March 1 980 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds (7), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 952/80 (8) ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : March 1979 on the impact of the European monetary system on the common agricultural policy (9), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1264/79 ( 10), intro duced the ECU into the common agricultural policy ; Article 1 whereas, since that time, pursuant to existing provi sions, the ECU has been taken into account in the fixing of amounts relating to : The world market price referred to in Article 9 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2300/73 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto . (') OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66 . 2) OJ No L 78, 30 . 3 . 1979, p. 1 . 3) OJ No L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9 . <) OJ No L 116, 28 . 4. 1978 , p. 6. 5) OJ No L 236, 24. 8 . 1973, p. 28 . Article 2 *) OJ No L 37, 14. 2. 1980, p 17. 7) OJ No L 68 , 14. 3 . 1980, p. 16 . 8) See page 41 of this Official Journal . 9) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 April 1 980 . 10) OJ No L 161 , 29. 6. 1979, p. 1 .
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 17 April 1980.
For the Commission
Finn GUNDELACH
Vice-President
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 17 April 1980 fixing the world market price for colza and rape seed
(ECU / 100 kg) (') CCT heading Description World market price No
ex 12.01 Colza and rape seed 19-639
(/:(.!>/ 100 World market price where the subsidy CCT is fixed in advance for the month of heading Description No April May June July August September 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980
ex 12.01 1 9-639 19-639 19-507 19-658 20-431 20-808 Colza and rape seed
(') The conversion rates from ECU into national currency as foreseen by Article 9 ( 5) (a) of Regulation ( EEC) No 2300/73 arc the following : I ECU - DM 2-48208 I ECU - Fl 2.74362 I ECU - Bfr/Lfr 39 7897 1 ECU - FP 5 84700 1 ECU - Dkr 7 72336 1 ECU - I £ 0-668201 1 ECU - £ 0-596178 I ECU - Lit I 148-14