31986R1584

No L 139 / 41 24 . 5 . 86 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1584/86 of 23 May 1986 fixing the prices applicable to cereals for the 1986/87 marketing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , Whereas , as part of a quality policy , production of common wheat of higher breadmaking quality and production of rye of breadmaking quality should be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European supported ; whereas accordingly a special premium Economic Community , and in particular Article 43 should be fixed for each of these cereals ; thereof,

Whereas , in the case of durum wheat , application of a Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and more satisfactory price relationship with common Portugal , and in particular Article 89 ( 1 ) thereof, wheat leads to a reduction in its intervention price ; whereas , however, in order to improve that cereal 's Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) fluidity on the Community market, the level of the No 2727 / 75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organ­ target price should remain unchanged ; ization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 1 579/ 86 (2 ), and in particular Whereas application of Article 68 of the Act of Acces­ Article 3 ( 5 ) thereof, sion of Spain and Portugal has meant that prices in Spain differ from the common prices ; whereas , pur­ Having regard to the proposal from the suant to Article 70 ( 1 ) of the Act of Accession , Spanish Commission ( 3 ), prices should be aligned with common prices each year at the start of the marketing year ; whereas as a result of Having regard to the opinion of the European applying the criteria for this alignment, Spanish prices Parliament (4 ), are fixed at the level set out below ;

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Whereas the amount of the co-responsibility levy Social Committee ( 5 ), referred to in Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2727 / 75 is determined on the basis of cereals pro­ Whereas the markets and prices policy , based on mod­ duction and the quantities of cereals used in the Com­ ern farms , is the main instrument of the incomes policy munity without financial intervention and imports of in agriculture ; whereas full advantage cannot be drawn the substitute products listed in Annex D to the above­ from such a policy unless it is integrated into the com­ mentioned Regulation ; whereas , in view of this and of mon agricultural policy as a whole , including a the resulting cost to the cereals sector, it is proposed dynamic social and structural policy and the applica­ that for its first year of application the co-responsibility tion of the rules on competition contained in the levy be fixed at a standard rate of 3 % of the interven­ Treaty ; tion price applicable for common wheat in the first month of the 1986 / 87 marketing year, Whereas in many cases surpluses can no longer be dis­ posed of on normal terms either inside or outside the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Community ; whereas , in order to reduce the cost to the budget of disposing of surpluses on markets of third countries and to encourage greater consumption within Article / the Community , the restrictive price policy should con­ tinue to be applied ; whereas this objective can be For the 1986 / 87 marketing year : attained by reducing , for the 1986 / 87 marketing year, 1 . The prices applicable in the cereals sector shall be the intervention price for barley , rye and sorghum and as indicated in the Annex . by maintaining , for maize , the intervention price applied during the 1985 / 86 marketing year ; whereas , 2 . The amount of the co-responsibility levy referred to with regard to common wheat , bearing in mind the in Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2727 / 75 shall increased quality requirements for standard quality , be 5,38 ECU / tonne . the intervention price applied during the 1985 / 86 marketing year should be maintained for the 1986 / 87 marketing year ; A rticle 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its ') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975,p . 1 . publication in the Official Journal of the European : ) See page 29 of this Official Journal . Communities. 3 ) OJ No C 85 , 14. 4. 1986, p. 1 . ■>) OJ No C 120, 20 . 5 . 1986 . ? ) OJ No C 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1986 , p. I. It shall apply from 1 July 1986 .

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

Done at Brussels , 23 May 1986 .

For the Council The President G. BRAKS

ANNEX

ECU/tonne ECU/tonne COMMON WHEAT MAIZE

Intervention price (') Intervention price — Community of Ten 179,44 — Community of Ten 179,44 — Spain 172,58 — Spain 172,58 Target price 256,16 Common target price 233,86

RYE SORGHUM

Intervention price (2 ) Intervention price 170,47 — Community of Ten 170,47 — Community of Ten 159,05 156,53 — Spain — Spain 233,86 233,86 Target price Common target price

BARLEY DURUM WHEAT

Intervention price Intervention price — Community of Ten 170,47 — Community of Ten 299,60 — Spain 156,53 — Spain 211,06 Common target price 233,86 Target price 357,70

(') The price shall be increased by 3,59 ECU /tonne for common wheat of breadmaking quality which meets the specific quality requirements provided for in Regulation ( EEC ) No 1570/77 . (2) The price shall be increased by 8,97 ECU /tonne for rye of breadmaking quality which meets the specific quality requirements provided for in Regulation ( EEC) No 1570/ 77 .