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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2985/84 of 25 October 1984 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market COMMUNITIES, price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing point, is to be determined on the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportunities, quotations being Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European adjusted where necessary to take account of quotations Economic Community, for competing products ;

Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/ of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common organization of the market in oils and fats ('), 67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for deter­ as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 556/84 0, mining world market prices for oil seeds and fixing and in particular Article 27 (4) thereof, the frontier crossing point ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1983/82 (I0), fixed the said cros­ sing point at Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Regulation provides that when the world market price 1223/83 of 20 May 1983 on the exchange rates to be is being determined account should be taken of all applied in agriculture (3), as last amended by Regula­ offers on the world market known to the Commission tion (EEC) No 855/84 C), 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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1967 on detailed rules for determining the world 1569/72 of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures market price for oil seeds ("), as last amended by for colza, rape and sunflower seed (*), as last amended Regulation (EEC) No 2940/84 (u), provides that offers by Regulation (EEC) No 1474/84 (*), and in particular and quotations which do not relate to shipments to be Article 2 (3) thereof, effected within 30 days following the date on which the world market price is determined should be disre­ garded ; whereas offers and quotations which the Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Commission believes, in view of general price move­ Committee, ments Or information available to it, not to be repre­ sentative of the real trend of the market must also be disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations relating to Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC quantities of less than 500 tonnes and offers relating to provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of seed of a quality other than that normally acceptable oil seeds harvested and processed within the Commu­ on the world market must also be disregarded ; nity when the target price for a species of seed is higher than the price on the world market ; whereas these provisions at present apply only in respect of Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC colza, rape and sunflower seeds ; provides that of the offers and quotations taken into consideration, those for delivery c and f should be Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically, increased by 0,2 % ; whereas offers and quotations for be equal to the difference between those two prices ; delivery fas, fob or otherwise should be increased, as appropriate, by loading, transport and insurance costs from the point of shipment or loading to the frontier Whereas the target price and the monthly increases in crossing point ; whereas cif offers and quotations for the target price for oil seeds for the 1984/85 marketing frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should year were fixed by Regulations (EEC) No 1102/84 f) be adjusted to allow for the difference in transport and and (EEC) No 1103/84 (8) ; whereas Article 29 of Regu insurance costs as compared with a product delivered cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commission should take account only of the loading, transport and insurance (') OJ No 172, 30. 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66. (*) OJ No L 150, 6. 6. 1984, p. 5. costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas, 0 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. 2196/67. (6) OJ No L 143, 30. 5. 1984, p. 4. (,0) OJ No L 215, 23. 7. 1982, p. 6. f) OJ No L 113, 28. 4. 1984, p. 8. (") OJ No 136, 30. 6. 1967, p. 2919/67. (8) OJ No L 113, 28 . 4. 1984, p. 10 . (12) OJ No L 277, 20. 10. 1984, p. 7.

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finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 115/ should be increased by 0,242 ECU ; 67/EEC, the price determined for colza, rape and sunflower seeds must also be adjusted by an amount not exceeding the margin, as calculated in accordance Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC with that Article, where that margin may affect the provides that the world market price should be deter­ normal disposal of seeds harvested in the Community ; mined for seed of the standard quality for which the target price has been fixed, delivered in bulk ; Whereas the factors to be taken into consideration for the purpose of determining that margin are defined in Article 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC adjustment should be made where the margin is found provides that offers and quotations relating to products to be less than 0,604 ECU ; presented otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted by deducting the additional value resulting from that presentation ; whereas offers and quotations relating to Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14 a quality other than the standard quality for which the June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down target price was fixed should be adjusted on the basis rules for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas, of the coefficients of equivalence shown in the Annex under that Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted to that Regulation ; whereas, in the case of offers on is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must the world market for qualities of colza and rape seed be equal to the amount applicable on the day on other than those listed in that Annex, coefficients of which the application for advance fixing was lodged, equivalence derived from those listed in that Annex adjusted by the difference between the target price may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation No 225/ valid on that day and the target price valid on the day 67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived coef­ on which the seeds are placed under control at an oil ficients are being calculated, account must be taken of or feed mill and, where appropriate, a corrective the differences between prices for the qualities of seed amount ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regula­ in question and prices for the qualities listed in that tion (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying Annex, and of the characteristics of these various down detailed rules for the application of the subsidy seeds ; system for oil seeds (2), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1814/84 (3), provides that such adjustment should involve increasing or reducing the amount of Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC subsidy applicable on the day on which the applica­ provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used tion was lodged by the corrective amount and the as a basis for determining the world market price, that difference between the target prices mentioned in price should be determined on the basis of the value Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 ; of the average quantities of oil and oil cake resulting from the processing of 100 kilograms of seed within Whereas Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 the Community less an amount corresponding to the provides that the corrective amount must be equal to cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ; the difference between the world market price for whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into colza, rape and sunflower seeds and the forward price consideration for the purposes of the calculation are for those seeds valid for a shipment effected during fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; the month in which the seeds were placed under whereas the value of those quantities should be deter­ control at an oil mill, those prices being determined in mined in accordance with Article 6 of that Regula­ accordance with Articles 1 , 4 and 5 of Regulation No tion : 115/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer and no price can be used for such determination, the method of calculation provided for in Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC 2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the abovementioned provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used difference may be adjusted in accordance with Article as a basis for determining the world market price and 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account being where it is, moreover, impossible to establish the value taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ; of the oil or oil cake processed from such seed, the world market price should be determined on the basis of the most recent known value for oil or oil cake, Whereas Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 adjusted to take account of the trend of world prices provides for the publication of the amount of the final for competing products by applying to that value the subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the rules set out in Article 2 of Regulation No 115/ national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting 67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regulation No 225/ from the calculation referred to above plus or minus 67/EEC defines competing products as those oils or oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have (') OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44. been offered in the largest quantities oh the world (2) OJ No L 266, 28. 9 . 1983, p. 1 . market during the period under consideration ; (3) OJ No L 170, 29 . 6. 1984, p. 44.

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the differential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Regula­ the previous month or the following month, as the tion (EEC) No 1813/84 (') defined the elements which case may be, is to be used ; determine the differential amounts ; whereas these elements are equal to the incidence on the target price Whereas, for the period 17 to 23 October 1984, for or the subsidy of the coefficient derived from the certain currencies : percentage referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1 569/72 ; whereas, according to these provi­ — for the current month, the difference referred to in sions, this percentage represents : Article 2 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 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 at any given moment of 2,25 % , the difference — for certain following months 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 tage adopted for the previous fixing ; — the conversion rate resulting from the central rate, Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the market situation makes it necessary and in such a way (b) for Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece, the as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ; difference between : whereas the subsidy may be altered whenever it becomes obvious that such alteration is necessary ; — the relationship between the conversion rate used under the common agricultural policy for the currency of the Member State concerned Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to and the central rate of each of the currencies of the offers and quotations known to the Commission the Member States referred to in (a), and that, pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the — the spot market rate for the currency of the amount of the subsidy in each of the national curren­ Member State in question in relation to each of cies must be fixed in accordance with the Annex to the currencies of the Member States referred to this Regulation ; whereas, pursuant to the same Article, in (a), as recorded over a period to be deter­ the spot and forward exchange rates for the ECU in mined ; national currencies determined in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 must also be published, Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1 569/72, the monetary disparity for the marketing years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated by a method which takes into account a coefficient applied to the conversion rate resulting from the central rate ; whereas the said Article 2a fixed the coef­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ficient for the beginning of the 1984/85 marketing year ; whereas account should be taken thereof in respect of colza and rape seed with effect from 1 July 1984 and for sunflower seed with effect from 1 August Article 1 1984 ;

The amounts of the subsidy and the exchange rates referred to in Article 33 (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC) Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. No 1569/72 forward differential amounts are to be determined where the forward exchange rate for one 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 ;

Article 2 Whereas where, for one or more months, forward exchange rates are not available, the rate adopted for This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 October (') OJ No L 170, 29. 6. 1984, p. 41 . 1984 .

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

Done at Brussels, 25 October 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) 9,167 9,687 12,216 11,709 12,212 12,382 2. Final aids Seeds harvested and processed in : — Federal Republic of Germany (DM) 30,77 32,08 38,08 30,79 31,99 33,17 — Netherlands (Fl) 28,71 30,12 36,77 34,64 36,00 37,23 — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs) 425,46 449,59 566,97 541,94 565,29 561,88 — France (FF) 53,68 57,25 74,54 69,73 73,18 74,27 — Denmark (Dkr) 77,14 81,52 102,80 98,53 102,76 103,39 — Ireland (£ Irl) 6,876 7,266 9,158 8,708 9,085 9,015 — United Kingdom (£) 5,389 5,711 7,290 6,969 7,280 7,383 13 127 13 867 17 208 16 197 16917 16 270 — Italy (Lit) — Greece (Dr) 649,08 696,15 934,38 883,74 929,20 942,97

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

1 . Gross aids (ECU) 15,121 15,736 16,351 17,310 18,293 2. Final aids Seeds harvested and processed in : l

— Federal Republic of Germany (DM) 46,65 48,19 49,78 44,54 46,86 — Netherlands (Fl) 45,30 46,96 48,63 50,13 52,74 — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs) 701,79 730,34 758,88 801,69 847,33 — France (FF) 93,49 97,71 101,28 106,74 113,60 — Denmark (Dkr) 127,24 132,42 137,59 145,66 153,94 — Ireland (£ Irl) 11,342 11,804 12,258 12,899 13,637 — United Kingdom (£) 9,040 9,420 9,801 10,396 11,007 21 455 22 529 23 079 24 140 25 553 v — Italy (Lit) — Greece (Dr) 1 166,92 1 222,59 1 278,27 1 366,67 1 45736

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

DM 2,229990 2,222950 2,216410 2,211090 2,211090 2,192530 Fl 2,515730 2,512060 2,503000 2,496280 2,496280 2,477590 Bfrs/Lfrs 45,073400 45, 132300 45,200800 45,243600 45,243600 45,390900 FF 6,841810 6,851160 6,862680 6,873710 6,873710 6,916310 Dkr 8,058440 8,068320 8,082400 8,091900 8,091900 8,121080 £ Irl 0,718681 0,720627 0,723012 0,724773 0,724773 0,730987 £ 0,602916 0,603569 0,604371 0,604913 0,604913 0,606458 Lit 1 380,57 1 388,23 1 396,19 1 402,71 1 402,71 1 423,61 Dr 91,243000 91,340200 91,467400 91,556300 91,556300 91,861100