31984R1865

30. 6 . 84 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 172/71

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1865/84 of 29 June 1984 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/ COMMUNITIES, 67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­ mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the frontier crossing point (9), as last amended by Economic Community, Regulation (EEC) No 1983/82 (10), fixed the said cros­ sing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC Regulation provides that when the world market price of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a is being determined account should be taken of all offers on the world market known to the Commission common organization of the market in oils and fats ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 101 /84 Q, and of quotations on those exchanges which are signi­ and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof, ficant for international trade ; whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 225/67/EEC of 28 June Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1967 on detailed rules for determining the world 1223/83 of 20 May 1983 on the exchange rates to be market price for oil seeds ("), as last amended by applied in agriculture (3), as last amended by Regula­ Regulation (EEC) No 1326/84 (12), provides that offers tion (EEC) No 855/84 (<), and quotations which do not relate to shipments to be effected within 30 days following the date on which the world market price is determined should be disre­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the 1569/72 of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures Commission believes, in view of general price move­ for colza, rape and sunflower seed (*), as last amended ments or information available to it, not to be repre­ by Regulation (EEC) No 1474/84 (6), and in particular sentative of the real trend of the market must also be Article 2 (3) thereof, disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating to Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary seed of a quality other than that normally acceptable Committee, 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 Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and insurance costs as compared with a product delivered the target price for oil seeds for the 1984/85 marketing cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 1 102/84 Q and (EEC) No 1 103/84 (8) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu­ account only of the loading, transport and insurance lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas, price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam point, is to be determined on the basis of the most should be increased by 0,242 ECU ; favourable purchasing opportunities, quotations being adjusted where necessary to take account of quotations for competing products ; Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides that the world market price should be deter­ mined for seed of the standard quality for which the (') OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66. 0 OJ No L 113, 28 . 4. 1984, p. 7. target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ; (3) OJ No L 132, 21 . 5. 1983, p. 33. (4) OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9. O OJ No 111 , 10. 6. 1967, p. 21 96/67. (6) OJ No L 143, 30. 5. 1984, p. 4. 0°) OJ No L 215, 23. 7. 1982, p. 6. 0 OJ No L 113, 28 . 4. 1984, p. 8 . (") OJ No 136, 30. 6. 1967, p. 2919/67. (•) OJ No L 113, 28 . 4. 1984, p. 10. H OJ No L 129, 15. 5. 1984, p. 15.

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Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for provides that offers and quotations relating to products the purpose of determining that margin are defined in presented otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no by deducting the additional value resulting from that adjustment should be made where the margin is found presentation ; whereas offers and quotations relating to to be less than 0,604 ECU : a quality other than the standard quality for which the target price was fixed should be adjusted on the basis of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14 to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case of offers on June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down the world market for qualities of colza and rape seed rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas, other than those listed in that Annex, coefficients of under that Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted equivalence derived from those listed in that Annex is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 225/ be equal to the amount applicable on the day on 67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived coef­ which the application for advance fixing was lodged, ficients are being calculated, account must be taken of adjusted by the difference between the target price the differences between prices for the qualities of seed valid on that day and the target price valid on the day in question and prices for the qualities listed in that on which the seeds are placed under control at an oil Annex, and of the characteristics of these various or feed mill and, where appropriate, a corrective seeds : amount ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying down detailed rules for the application of the subsidy system for oil seeds, as amended by Regulation (EEC) Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC No 1814/84 (2), provides that such adjustment should providies that, where no offer or quotation can be used involve increasing or reducing the amount of subsidy as a basis for determining the world market price, that applicable on the day on which the application was price should be determined on the basis of the value lodged by the corrective amount and the difference of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting between the target prices mentioned in Article 35 of from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 ; the Community less an amount corresponding to the cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ; whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into consideration for the purposes of the calculation are fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­ Whereas Article 37 of Regulation No 2681 /83 mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­ provides that the corrective amount must be equal to tion ; the difference between the world market price for colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during the month in which the seeds were placed under Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC control at an oil mill, those prices being determined in provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation No as a basis for determining the world market price and 1 15/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer and no price can be where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value used for such determination, the method of calculation of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the provided for in Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No world market price should be determined on the basis 2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the abovementioned of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake, difference may be adjusted in accordance with Article adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account being for competing products by applying to that value the taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ; rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No 115/ 67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/ 67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or Whereas Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have provides for the publication of the amount of the final been offered in the largest quantities on the world subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the market during the period under consideration ; national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting from the calculation referred to above plus or minus the differential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Regula­ Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 115/ tion (EEC) No 181 3/84 (3) defined the elements which 67/EEC, the price determined for colza, rape and determine the differential amounts : whereas these sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount not exceeding the margin, as calculated in accordance (■) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44. with that Article, where that margin may affect the (J) OJ No L 170, 29. 6. 1984, p. 44. normal disposal of seeds harvested in the Community ; 0 OJ No L 170, 29. 6. 1984, p. 41 .

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elements are equal to the incidence on the target price Whereas, for the period 20 to 26 June 1984, for or the subsidy of the coefficient derived from the certain currencies : percentage referred to in Article 2 (1 ) of Regulation — for the current month, the difference referred to in (EEC) No 1569/72 ; whereas, according to these provi­ Article 2 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 sions, this percentage represents : differs by more than one point from the percen­ (a) for those Member States whose currencies are tage adopted for the previous fixing, maintained as between themselves within a spread — for certain following months the difference at any given moment of 2^25 %, the difference between : referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1 569/72 exceeds 0,5 % ; whereas this difference in — the conversion rate used under the common the case of certain forward differential amounts agricultural policy, and differs by more than one point from the percen­ — the conversion rate resulting from the central tage adopted for the previous fixing ; rate, (b) for Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece, the Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the difference between : market situation makes it necessary and in such a way as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ; — the relationship between the conversion v rate whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it used under the common agricultural policy for becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ; the currency of the Member State concerned and the central rate of each of the currencies of the Member States referred to in (a), and Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the offers and quotations known to the Commission — the spot market rate for the currency of the that, pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No Member State in question in relation to each of 2681 /83 the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the the currencies of the Member States referred to amount of the subsidy in each of the national curren­ in (a), as recorded over a period to be deter­ cies must be fixed in accordance with the Annex to mined ; this Regulation ; whereas, pursuant to the same Article, Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regula­ the spot and forward exchange rates for the ECU in national currencies determined in accordance with tion (EEC) No 1569/72, the monetary disparity for the marketing years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 must also by a method which takes into account a coefficient be published, applied to the conversion rate resulting from the central rate ; whereas the said Article 2a fixed the coef­ ficient for the beginning of the 1984/85 marketing HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : year ; whereas account should be taken thereof in respect of colza and rape seed with effect from 1 July 1 984 and for sunflower seed with effect from 1 August 1984 ; Article 1 Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) The amounts of the subsidy and the exchange rates No 1569/72 forward differential amounts are to be referred to in Article 33 (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC) determined where the forward exchange rate for one No 2681 /83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. or more currencies differs from the spot rate by at least a given percentage ; whereas this percentage has been fixed at 0,5 by Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 ;

Whereas where, for one or more months, forward exchange rates are not available, the rate adopted for Article 2 the previous month or the following month, as the case may be, is to be used ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1984.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1984. For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I Aids to colza and rape seed (amounts per 100 kilograms) Current 1st month 2nd month 3rd month 4th month 5th month month

1 . Gross aids (ECU) 2,775 6,575 7,328 9,831 11,379 10,812 2. Final aids l\\ Seeds harvested and processed in : \ \\l

— Federal Republic of Germany (DM) 15,75 24,56 26,45 32,60 36,28 35,86 — Netherlands (Fl) 11,92 21,84 23,86 30,70 34,79 34,12 — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs) 128,79 305,16 340,11 454,77 526,66 489,01 — France (FF) 8,51 35,51 40,13 56,75 67,67 60,23 — Denmark (Dkr) 23,35 55,33 61,67 82,73 95,75 90,18 — Ireland (£ Irl) 2,082 4,932 5,491 7,299 8,462 7,838 — United Kingdom (£) 2,190 4,501 4,964 6,491 7,438 7,099 — Italy (Lit) 3 974 9411 10 183 13 503 15 735 14 021 — Greece (Dr) 206,57 554,39 622,79 851,37 992,54 940,12

ANNEX II Aids to sunflower seed (amounts per 100 kilograms) Current 1st month 2nd month 3rd month 4th month month 1 . Gross aids (ECU) ||

12,347 10,377 10,811 14,029 14,644 2. Final aids \

Seeds harvested and processed in : — Federal Republic of Germany (DM) 40,73 35,53 36,58 44,45 46,00 — Netherlands (Fl) 38,31 32,85 33,98 42,75 44,42 — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs) 573,05 481,62 501,76 649,36 677,90 — France (FF) 73,17 59,93 62,30 83,81 88,03 — Denmark (Dkr) 103,90 87,32 90,97 118,05 123,23 — Ireland (£ Irl) 9,262 7,784 8,102 10,435 10,897 — United Kingdom (£) 8,161 6,929 7,193 9,156 9,536 17 681 14 855 15 117 19 420 20 300 — Italy (Lit) — Greece (Dr) 1 068,52 891,39 931,11 1 225,05 1 280,72

ANNEX III Exchange rate of the ECU to be used for converting final aids into the currency of the processing country when the latter is a country other than the country of production (value of 1 ECU Current 1st month 2nd month 3rd month 4th month 5th month month I

DM 2,238330 2^32480 2,226290 2,220450 2^220450 2,202330 Fl 2,520860 2,514830 2,508740 2,501950 2,501950 2,483770 Bfrs/ Lfrs 45,543800 45,640000 45,730600 45,809900 45,809900 46,097500 FF 6,869800 6,893770 6,919160 6,947130 6,947130 7,031060 Dkr 8,201700 8,220090 8,231830 8,242480 8,242480 8,262970 £ Irl 0,731128 0,733092 0,734935 0,736699 0,736699 0,741682 £ 0,590481 0,590475 0,590689 0,590784 0,590784 0,591039 Lit 1 378,420000 1 385,420000 1 392,700000 1 399,700000 1 399,700000 1 421,830000 Dr 88,552000 88,552000 88,552000 88,552000 88,552000 88,552000