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1 . 10 . 83 No L 269/37 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2740/83

of 30 September 1983

fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN offers on the world market known to the Commission COMMUNITIES, and of quotations on those exchanges which are signi­ ficant for international trade ; whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 225/67/EEC of 28 June Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1967 on detailed rules for determining the world Economic Community, market price for oil seeds Q, as last amended by Regu­ lation (EEC) No 2040/83 (8), provides that offers and Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC quotations which do not relate to shipments to be of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a effected within 30 4ays following the date on which the world market price is determined should be disre­ common organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1413/82 (2), garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the Commission believes, in view of general price move­ and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof, ments or information available to it, not to be repre­ sentative of the real trend of the market must also be Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to Committee , quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating to seed of a quality other than that normally acceptable on the world market must also be disregarded ; Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of oil seeds harvested and processed within the Commu­ Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC nity when the target price for a species of seed is provides that of the offers and quotations taken into higher than the price on the world market ; whereas consideration, those for delivery c and f should be these provisions at present apply only in respect of increased by 0,2 % ; whereas offers and quotations for colza, rape and sunflower seeds ; delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased, as appropriate, by loading, transport and insurance costs Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically, from the point of shipment or loading to the frontier be equal to the difference between those two prices ; crossing point ; whereas cif offers and quotations for frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in insurance costs as compared with a product delivered the target price for oil seeds for the 1983/84 marketing cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 1591 /83 (3) account only of the loading, transport and insurance and (EEC) No 1592/83 (4) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu­ costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas, lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing should be increased by 0,242 ECU ; point, is to be determined on the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportunities, quotations being adjusted where necessary to take account of quotations Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC for competing products ; provides that the world market price should be deter­ mined for seed of the standard quality for which the Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/ target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ; 67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­ mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing the frontier crossing point (*), as last amended by Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC Regulation (EEC) No 1983/82 (6), fixed the said cros­ provides that offers and quotations relating to products sing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that presented otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted Regulation provides that when the world market price by deducting the additional value resulting from that is being determined account should be taken of all presentation ; whereas offers and quotations relating to a quality other than the standard quality for which the target price was fixed should be adjusted on the basis (') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/66 . (2) OJ No L 162, 12. 6. 1982, p. 6. of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex (3) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983 , p. 40 . (*) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 42. (s) OJ No 111 , 10 . 6. 1967 , p. 2196/67 . 0 OJ No 136, 30 . 6. 1967, p. 2919/67. («) OJ No L 215, 23 . 7. 1982, p. 6. (8 OJ No L 200, 23 . 7. 1983, p. 23 .

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to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case of offers on and oil cake resulting from the processing of these the world market for qualities of colza and rape seed seeds ; other than those listed in that Annex, coefficients of Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for equivalence derived from those listed in that Annex the purpose of determining that margin are defined in may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 225/ Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no 67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived coef­ adjustment should be made where the margin is found ficients are being calculated, account must be taken of to be less than 0-604 ECU ; whereas Article 6 (2) of the differences between prices for the qualities of seed Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides that, when the in question and prices for the qualities listed in that amount of the adjustment is being determined, Annex, and of the characteristics of these various account should be taken of the incidence of the seeds ; margin in question on marketing operations of Community traders and on the disposal of the various Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC types of seed on the world market ; provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis for determining the world market price, that Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14 price should be determined on the basis of the value June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas, from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within under that Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted the Community less an amount corresponding to the is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ; be equal to the amount applicable on the day on whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into which the application for advance fixing was lodged, consideration for the purposes of the calculation are adjusted by the difference between the target price fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; valid on that day and the target price valid on the day whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­ on which the seeds are placed under control at an oil mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­ mill and, where appropriate, a corrective amount ; tion ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying down Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC detailed rules for the application of the subsidy system provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used for oil seeds provides that such adjustment should as a basis for determining the world market price and involve increasing or reducing the amount of subsidy where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value applicable on the day on which the application was of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the lodged by the corrective amount and the difference world market price should be determined on the basis between the target prices mentioned in Article 35 of of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake, Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 ; adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices for competing products by applying to that value the Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 extended the rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No , 115/ subsidy system for oil seeds mentioned in Article 27 of 67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/ Regulation No 136/66/EEC to cover colza and rape 67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or seed incorporated into animal feeds ; oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have Whereas the conditions for the sale of Community been offered in the largest quantities on the world seeds and the situation of forward offers and prices on market during the period under consideration ; the world market make it necessary to extend the Whereas, in accordance with Article 5 (a) of Regula­ period of validity of the AP part of the certificate until tion No 1 1 5/67/EEC, when the world market price for the end of the sixth month following that during colza or rape seed is determined, the price adopted is which the application was lodged ; to be adjusted by an amount not exceeding the diffe­ rence between the price of 100 kilograms of colza or Whereas Article 37 of Regulation No 2681 /83 rape seed plus processing costs and the total price of provides that the corrective amount must be equal to the quantities of oil and oil cake given by processing the difference between the world market price for those seeds ; whereas, pursuant to Article 6 ( 1 ) of the colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price same Regulation, the price adopted for colza, rape and for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount the month in which the seeds were placed under not exceeding the difference between : control at an oil mill, those prices being determined in accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation No — the difference between the price of 100 kilograms 1 1 5/67/EEC ; whereas, however, in respect of colza and rape seed, the price determined pursuant to of colza, rape or sunflower seeds, plus processing costs, and the total of the prices of the quantities of Article 37 (2) (a) is to be adjusted in accordance with Article 5 (a) of Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas, oil and oil cake resulting from the processing of the type of seed in question, and if no offer and no price can be used for such determi­ nation, the method of calculation provided for in — the difference between the price of 100 kilograms of one or more other seeds, plus processing costs, and the total of the prices of the quantities of oil (') OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44.

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Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 should be Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to used ; whereas the abovementioned difference may be the offers and quotations known to the Commission adjusted in accordance with Article 38 of Regulation that the subsidy on colza, rape and sunflower seeds (EEC) No 2681 /83, account being taken of the prices should be as set out in the Annex hereto, of the main competing cereals ;

Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the market situation makes it necessary and in such a way HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ; whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it Article 1 becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ;

Whereas, if the subsidy system is to operate normally, subsidies should be calculated on the following basis : The amount of the subsidy referred to in Article 27 of — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be as set out in the Annex hereto . relation to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on the central rate, — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of Article 2 these currencies recorded for a given period in relation to the Community currencies referred to This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October 1983 . in the previous indent ;

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

Done at Brussels, 30 September 1983 .

For the Commission

Poul DALSAGER

Member of the Commission

No L 269/40 1 . 10 . 83 Official Journal of the European Communities

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 September 1983 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

(ECU / 100 kg)

CCT heading Description Subsidy No

ex 12.01 Colza and rape seed 6,804

ex 12.01 Sunflower seed 13,139

(ECU/ 100 kg)

Subsidy in the case of advance CCT fixing for the month of heading Description No October November December March January February 1983 1983 1983 1984 1984 1984

ex 12.01 Colza and rape seed 6,804 7,242 7,542 7,437 6,556 6,838

ex 12.01 Sunflower seed — 13,139 14,071 , 14,377 13,984 14,153