31983R3383

No L 336/42 1 . 12. 83 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3383/83

of 30 November 1983

fixing the aid for castor seeds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Regulation (EEC) No 2081 /79 of 26 September 1979 COMMUNITIES, laying down detailed rules for the application of the special measures for castor seeds (4) ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas offers and prices which do not satisfy these conditions must be adjusted in accordance with Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2081 /79 ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2874/77 of 19 December 1977 laying down special Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1853/78 measures in respect of castor seeds ('), and in particular provides that where no offer or price can be used to Article 2 (5) thereof, determine the world market price of castor seed it shall be determined on the basis of the offers and Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No prices on the world or Community markets for castor 1853/78 of 25 July 1978 adopting general rules in oil and oil-cake ; whereas for this purpose the value of connection with special measures for castor seeds (2), the average quantities of oil and oil-cake obtained in the Community from processing 100 kilograms of Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary castor seed less the amount of the cost of processing Committee, the seed into oil and oil-cake shall be used ;

Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1853/78 Whereas Article 2(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2874/77 provides that where no offer or price can be used to specifies that aid shall be granted in respect of castor determine the world market price for castor seed and, seeds when the guide price for a marketing year is further, it is impossible to establish the value of the higher than the world market price ; whereas this aid oil-cake or oil processed from such seed, the worlds is to be equal to the difference between these two market price shall be equal to the guide price for prices ; castor seed ;

Whereas the guide price has been fixed by Council Whereas, if the aid system is to operate normally, it Regulation (EEC) No 1574/83 of 14 June 1983 fixing should be calculated on the following basis : the guide price for castor seeds for the 1983/84 marketing year (3) ; — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on Whereas the world market price is determined for seed their central rate, in bulk delivered to Rotterdam of the standard quality for which the guide price was fixed ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1853/78 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of provides that the world market price shall be deter­ these currencies recorded for a given period in mined on the basis of the actual most favourable relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent ; purchasing possibilities disregarding offers and prices which cannot be considered as representative of the actual market trend ; Whereas, in the light of the above rules, the world market price should be fixed at 69,549 ECU per 100 kilograms ; Whereas in determining the world market price account is to be taken only of the offers made on the Whereas the aid must be fixed once a month , and in world market for delivery during the most representa­ such a way that it can be applied from the first day of tive period for the sale of seed of Community origin the month following the date of fixing ; whereas it and of the prices quoted for delivery during the same may be altered between fixing ; period on the major international exchanges ; whereas the most representative period for the sale of seed of Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Community origin has been fixed by Commission are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Oils and Fats, (') OJ No L 332, 24. 12. 1977, p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 212, 2. 8 . 1978 , p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 163, 22. 6 . 1983 , p . 14. (4) OJ No L 244, 27. 9 . 1979, p. 11 .

1 . 12 . 83 No L 336/43 Official Journal of the European Communities

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 2

Article1¶

The aid referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December 1983 . No 2874/77 shall be 0 ECU per 100 kilograms.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 November 1983 .

For the Commission

Poul DALSAGER

Member of the Commission