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No L 173 / 28 1 . 7 . 86 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2021 /86 of 30 June 1986 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 1986/87 marketing year have been fixed in Regulations (EEC) No 1457/86 0, and (EEC) No 1458/86 (8) ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas estimated production of colza, rape and sunflower seed for the 1986/87 marketing year has not been fixed ; whereas the amount, where appropriate, to be deducted from the subsidy in compliance with the system of maximum guaranteed quantities referred to in Article Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and 27a of Regulation No 136/66/EEC could therefore not be Portugal, determined ; whereas the Council fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1457/86 the target price for sunflower seed for the 1986/87 marketing year on the basis of an oil content Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of of 44 % for which the coefficient of equivalence with 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common seed of other qualities has not been fixed ; whereas the organization of the market in oils and fats (') as last amounts of the subsidy should therefore only be applied amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1454/86 (2) and in on a temporary basis and should be confirmed or replaced particular Article 27 (4) thereof, once the effects of the system of maximum guaranteed quantities for colza, rape and sunflower seed and the coefficient of equivalence of sunflower seed are known ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 678/85 (3) fixing the conversion rates to be applied in agriculture, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1333/86 (4), Whereas Article 29 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that the world market price, calculated for a Community frontier crossing point, is to be determined on the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportuni­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 ties, quotations being adjusted where necessary to take of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures for colza, account of quotations for competing products ; rape and sunflower seed (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1474/84 (6), and in particular Article 2 (3) thereof, Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/67/EEC of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for determining Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, world market prices for oil seeds and fixing the frontier crossing point (9), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 983/82 (l0), fixed the said crossing point at Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that Regulation provides provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of oil that when the world market price is being determined seeds harvested and processed within the Community account should be taken of all offers on the world market when the target price for a species of seed is higher than known to the Commission and of quotations on those the price on the world market ; whereas these provisions exchanges which are significant for international trade ; at present apply only in respect of colza, rape and whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 225/ sunflower seeds ; 67/EEC of 28 June 1967 on detailed rules for determi­ ning the world market price for oil seeds ("), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1844/86 (l2), provides Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically, be that offers and quotations which do not relate to ship­ equal to the difference between those two prices ; ments to be effected within 30 days following the date on which the world market price is determined should be disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations which the Whereas the target price and the monthly increments in Commission believes, in view of general price movements the target price of colza, rape and sunflower seed for the or information available to it, not to be representative of

(') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025/ 86. O OJ No L 133, 21 . 5 . 1986, p. 12. (2) OJ No L 133 , 21 . 5. 1986, p. 8 . 0 OJ No L 133 , 21 . 5 . 1986, p . 14. (3) OJ No L 132, 21 . 5. 1983, p . 33 . 0 OJ No 111 , 10 . 6 . 1967, p . 2196/67 . (<) OJ No L 119, 8 . 5 . 1986, p . 1 . H OJ No L 215, 23 . 7 . 1982, p . 6 . O OJ No L 167, 25. 7 . 1972, p. 9 . (") OJ No 136, 30 . 6 . 1967, p . 2919/67 . f6) OJ No L 143 , 30 . 5 . 1984, p. 4. 12 OJ No L 159 , 14. 6. 1986, p . 16 .

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the real trend of the market must also be disregarded ; be determined in accordance with Article 6 of that whereas offers and quotations relating to quantities of less Regulation ; 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 3 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis for determining the world market price and where it is, Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides moreover, impossible to establish the value of the oil or that of the offers and quotations taken into consideration, oil cake processed from such seed, the world market price those for delivery c and f should be increased by 0,2 % ; should be determined on the basis of the most recent whereas offers and quotations for delivery fas, fob or known value for oil or oil cake, adjusted to take account otherwise should be increased, as appropriate, by loading, of the trend of world prices for competing products by transport and insurance costs from the point of shipment applying to that value the rules set out in Article 2 of or loading to the frontier crossing point ; whereas cif Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regula­ offers and quotations for frontier crossing points other tion No 225/67/EEC defines competing products as those than Rotterdam should be adjusted to allow for the diffe­ oils or oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have rence in transport and insurance costs as compared with a been offered in the largest quantities on the world market product delivered cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commis­ during the period under consideration ; sion should take account only of the loading, transport and insurance costs which to its knowledge are the lowest ; whereas, finally, offers and quotations for delivery cif Rotterdam should be increased by 0,242 ECU ; Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 1 1 5/67/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 with that Article, Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides where that margin may affect the normal disposal of seeds that the world market price should be determined for harvested in the Community ; 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 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides 8 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment that offers and quotations relating to products presented should be made where the margin is found to be less than otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted by deducting 0,604 ECU ; the additional value resulting from that 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 of the coefficients of Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14 equivalence shown in the Annex to that Regulation ; June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds (') laid down rules whereas, in the case of offers on the world market for for granting the subsidy on oil seeds ; -whereas, under that qualities of colza and rape seed other than those listed in Regulation, where the subsidy to be granted is fixed in that Annex, coefficients of equivalence derived from those advance, the amount of such subsidy must be equal to the listed in that Annex may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regula­ amount applicable on the day on which the application tion No 225/67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived for advance fixing was lodged, adjusted by the difference coefficients are being calculated, account must be taken of between the target price valid on that day and the target the differences between prices for the qualities of seed in price valid on the day on which the seeds are placed question and prices for the qualities listed in that Annex, under control at an oil or feed mill and, where appro­ and of the characteristics of these various seeds : priate, a corrective amount ; whereas Article 35 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 September 1983 laying down detailed rules for the appli­ cation of the subsidy system for oil seeds (2), as last Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/ EEC provides amended by Regulation (EEC) No 869/86 (3), provides that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis that such adjustment should involve increasing or redu­ for determining the world market price, that price should cing the amount of subsidy applicable on the day on be determined on the basis of the value of the average which the application was lodged by the corrective quantities of oil and oil cake resulting from the proces­ amount and the difference between the target prices sing of 100 kilograms of seed within the Community less mentioned in Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No an amount corresponding to the cost of processing these 2681 / 83 ; seeds into oil and oil cake ; whereas the quantities and costs to be taken into consideration for the purposes of (') OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44. the calculation are fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No (2) OJ No L 266, 28 . 9 . 1983 , p. 1 . 225/67/EEC ; whereas the value of those quantities should 3) OJ No L 81 , 26. 3 . 1986, p. 10 .

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Whereas Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 — the conversion rate resulting from the central rate, provides that the corrective amount must be equal to the difference between the world market price for colza, rape (b) for Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece, the and sunflower seeds and the forward price for those seeds difference between : valid for a shipment effected during the month in which — the relationship between the conversion rate used the seeds were placed under control at an oil mill, those under the common agricultural policy for the prices being determined in accordance with Articles 1 , 4 currency of the Member State concerned and the and 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer central rate of each of the currencies of the and no price can be used for such determination, the Member States referred to in (a), and method of calculation provided for in Article 37 of Regu­ lation (EEC) No 2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the — the spot market rate for the currency of the abovementioned difference may be adjusted in accordance Member State in question in relation to each of the currencies of the Member States referred to in with Article 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account being taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ; (a), as recorded over a period to be determined ;

Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72, the monetary disparity for the marke­ Whereas the aid for colza, rape or sunflower seed ting years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated by a harvested or processed in Spain or Portugal is to be method which takes into account a coefficient applied to advised as provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No the conversion rate resulting from the central rate ; 478/86 (') ; whereas pursuant to Article 95 (2) and 293 (2) whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2679/85 (3) fixed the coeffi­ of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal this aid is cient ; to be introduced at the beginning of the 1986/87 marke­ ting year for seed harvested in these two Member States ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 specifies the spot and forward exchange rates and the period to be used for calculating the differential amounts ; whereas in cases Whereas, in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No where, for one or more months, quotations of forward 475/86 (2) and Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No exchange rates are not available, the rates adopted for the 476/86 (3) of 25 February 1986 laying down general rules previous months or the following months, as the case may be, must be used ; for the mechanism for controlling the prices and the quantities of certain products in the oils and fats sector released for consumption in Spain and Portugal respecti­ Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the vely, provision is made for the granting of compensatory market situation makes it necessary and in such a way as aid, subject to certain conditions ; whereas compensatory to ensure its being applied at least once a week ; whereas aid should be fixed for sunflower seeds harvested in Spain the subsidy may be altered whenever it becomes obvious and Portugal ; that such alteration is necessary ;

Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the offers and quotations known to the Commission that, Whereas Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 provides for the publication of the amount of the final the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the amount of the subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting from subsidy in each of the national currencies must be fixed in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation ; the calculation referred to above plus or minus the diffe­ whereas, pursuant to the same Article, the spot and rential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) forward exchange rates for the ECU in national currencies No 1813/84 (2) defined the elements which determine the differential amounts ; whereas these elements are equal to determined in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation the incidence on the target price or the subsidy of the (EEC) No 1813/84 must also be published, coefficient derived from the percentage referred to in Article 2 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 ; whereas, according to these provisions, this percentage represents :

- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (a) for those Member States whose currencies are main­ tained as between themselves within a spread at any given moment of 2,25 % , the difference between : Article 1 — the conversion rate used under the common agricultural policy, and 1 . The amounts of the subsidy and the exchange rates referred to in Article 33 (2) and (3) of Regulation (EEC) (■) OJ No L 53 , 1 . 3 . 1986. No 2681 / 83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto . (2) OJ No L S3, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 47. (3) OJ No L 53 , 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 51 . 4) OJ No L 170 , 29 . 6 . 1984, p. 41 0 OJ No L 254, 25 . 9 . 1985, p. 14.

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2. The amount of the compensatory aid referred to in from 1 July 1986 to take into account where appropriate, Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 475/86 and Article 12 the effects of the application of the system of maximum of Regulation (EEC) No 476/86 shall be as shown in guaranteed quantities for colza, rape and sunflower seed. Annex II to this Regulation for sunflower seed harvested in Spain and Portugal. 3. The amount of the subsidy in the case of advance fixing for July, August, September, October, November Article 2 and December 1986 for colza and rape seed and for August, September, October and November 1986 for sunflower seed will however be confirmed or replaced as This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1986.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1986. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

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ANNEX I

Aids to colza and rape seed

(amounts per 100 kilograms) Current 2nd month (') 3rd month (') 4th month (') 5th month (') 6th month (') month

1 . Gross aids (ECU) — Spain 0,610 0,610 0,610 0,610 0,610 0,610 — Portugal 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 — Other Member States 26,863 26,863 27,763 29,009 29,505 30,001 2 . Final aids (a) Seed harvested and processed in : — Federal Republic of Germany l (DM) 65,40 65,40 67,54 70,57 71,75 73,29 — Netherlands (Fl) 73,69 73,69 76,08 79,49 80,83 82,51 — BLEU (Bfrs/ Lfrs) 1 250,1 1 1 250,11 1 292,48 1 350,50 1 373,75 1 391,56 — France (FF) 182,00 182,00 188,28 196,94 200,46 204,76 — Denmark (Dkr) 228,63 228,63 236,33 247,00 251,24 255,09 — Ireland (£ Irl) - 20,225 20,225 20,912 21,837 22,215 22,537 — United Kingdom (£) 15,536 15,536 16,127 16,958 17,269 17,455 40 148 40 145 41 399 43 225 43 989 44 584 — Italy (Lit) — Greece (Dr) 2 548,48 2 548,48 2 674,39 2 742,29 2 800,16 2 784,70 (b) Seed harvested in Spain and processed : 88,94 88,94 88,94 88,94 88,94 88,94 — in Spain (Pta) — in a Member State listed at (a) (Pta) 3 043,09 3 043,09 3 139,44 3 325,16 3 364,36 3 436,67 (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and processed : — in Portugal (Esc) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 — in a Member State listed at (a) 3 941,30 3 929,66 4 022,27 4 218,97 4 226,36 4 301,66 (Esc)

(') Subject to the amount to be deducted in compliance with the system of maximum guaranteed quantities.

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ANNEX II Aids to sunflower seed (amounts per 100 kilograms) Current 2nd month 3rd month (') 4th month (') 5th month (') month

1 . Gross aids (ECU) — — Spain 1,720 1,720 1,720 1,720 — Portugal . — 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 — Other Member States 40,717 37,027 37,027 37,637 37,921 2. Final aids l

(a) Seed harvested and processed in (2) : — Federal Republic of Germany (DM) 98,50 89,69 89,71 91,29 91,99 — Netherlands (Fl) 110,98 101,06 101,06 102,84 103,63 — BLEU (Bfrs/ Lfrs) 1 871,07 1 726,16 1 726,16 1 753,95 1 767,1 1 — France (FF) 273,99 253,82 253,50 257,26 259,12 — Denmark (Dkr) 339,25 315,40 315,40 320,61 323,02 — Ireland (£ Irl) 30,085 27,953 27,950 28,380 28,592 — United Kingdom (£) 23,661 21,857 21,857 i 22,240 22,398 — Italy (Lit) 57 942 55 740 55 575 56 356 56 770 — Greece (Dr) 3 267,04 3 711,09 3 649,30 3 682,22 3 704,63 (b) Seed harvested in Spain and I \ processed : — — in Spain (Pta) 250,77 250,77 250,77 250,77 — in a Member State listed at (a) ll — (Pta) 3 064,28 3 025,75 3 114,79 3 200,96 (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and processed : l

— — in Portugal (Esc) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 — — in Spain (Esc) 5 670,52 5 618,67 5 714,92 5 804,64 — in a Member State listed at (a) — (Esc) 5 466,78 5 416,79 5 509,58 5 599,30 3. Compensatory aids : — — in Spain (Pta) 2 881,74 2 843,21 2 927,09 3 013,26 — — in Portugal (Esc) 5 426,47 5 376,48 5 468,13 5 557,85

(') Subject to the amount to be deducted in compliance with the system of maximum guaranteed quantities . (2) For seed harvested in the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 and processed in Spain, the amounts shown in 2 (a) to be multi­ plied by 1,037269 .

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 2nd month 3rd month 4th month 5th month 6th month month DM 2,148580 2,143760 2,138990 2,134640 2,134640 2,122560 Fl 2,419380 2,417220 2,414950 2,412570 2,412570 2,403470 Bfrs/Lfrs 43,913400 43,909700 43,910000 43,909600 43,909600 43,918100 FF 6,854580 6,854870 6,855780 6,856490 6,856490 6,858950 Dkr 7,973370 7,977660 7,984310 7,991720 7,991720 8,020940 £ Irl 0,709057 0,710272 0,711594 0,712804 0,712804 0,716080 £ 0,638250 0,639682 0,641135 0,642262 0,642262 0,645969 Lit 1 474,28 1 480,47 1 486,03 1 491,62 1 491,62 1 507,06 Dr 135,47710 137,17770 139,02910 141,26470 141,26470 147,26030 Pta 137,51650 138,68870 139,34010 139,99210 139,99210 141,69030 Esc 145,41470 147,25720 148,72320 150,14170 150,14170 154,88710