31987R0577
No L 57/38 Official Journal of the European Communities 27. 2. 87
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 577/87 of 26 February 1987 fixing the amount of the subsidy on oil seeds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, fore, be applied on a temporary basis and should be confirmed or replaced when the indicative price of the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1987/88 marketing year is known ; Economic Community,
Whereas estimated production of colza and rape seed for the 1987/88 marketing year has not been fixed ; whereas Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and the amount, where appropriate, to be deducted from the Portugal, subsidy in compliance with the system of maximum guaranteed quantities referred to in Article 27a of Regula Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of tion No 136/66/EEC could therefore not be determined ; 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common whereas the amounts of the subsidy should therefore only organization of the market in oils and fats (') as last be applied on a temporary basis and should be confirmed amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1454/86 (2) and in or replaced once the effects of the system of maximum particular Article 27 (4) thereof, guaranteed quantities for colza and rape seed are known ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1678/85 (3) fixing the conversion rates to be applied in Whereas a supplement to the target price for 'double zero' agriculture, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No colza and rape seed was fixed in Regulation (EEC) No 409/87 (4), 1457/86 ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1569/72 Whereas, under the system of maximum guaranteed of 20 July 1972 laying down special measures for colza, quantities, the amount of the aid is subject to the reduc rape and sunflower seed (*), as last amended by Regulation tion provided for in Commission Regulation (EEC) No (EEC) No 1474/84 (*), and in particular Article 2 (3) 2482/86 (9) as regards colza and rape seed, and in thereof, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2478/86 (10) as regards sunflower seed ; Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC Whereas Article 29 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC provides that a subsidy should be granted in respect of oil provides that the world market price, calculated for a seeds harvested and processed within the Community Community frontier crossing point, is to be determined when the target price for a species of seed is higher than on the basis of the most favourable purchasing opportuni the price on the world market ; whereas these provisions ties, quotations being adjusted where necessary to take at present apply only in respect of colza, rape and account of quotations for competing products ; sunflower seeds ; Whereas Article 4 of Council Regulation No 115/67/EEC Whereas the subsidy on oil seeds should, theoretically, be of 6 June 1967 laying down criteria for determining equal to the difference between those two prices ; world market prices for oil seeds and fixing the frontier crossing point (n), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Whereas the target price and the monthly increments in No 1983/82 (12), fixed the said crossing point at the target price of colza, rape and sunflower seed for the Rotterdam ; whereas Article 1 of that Regulation provides 1986/87 marketing year have been fixed in Council Regu that when the world market price is being determined lations (EEC) No 1457/86 O and (EEC) No 1458/86 (8) ; account should be taken of all offers on the world market known to the Commission and of quotations on those Whereas, in the absence of the target price for the exchanges which are significant for international trade ; 1987/88 marketing year for colza and rape seed, the whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 225/ amount of the subsidy in the case of advance fixing for 67/EEC of 28 June 1967 on detailed rules for determi July 1987 for colza and rape seed has been obtainable ning the world market price for oil seeds (13), as last only provisionally on the basis of the target price for the amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2284/86 (H), provides marketing year 1987/88 ; whereas this amount may, there that offers and quotations which do not relate to ship ments to be effected within 30 days following the date on (') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/86. (2) OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 8 . (3) OJ No L 132, 21 . 5. 1983, p . 33 . O OJ No L 212, 2. 8 . 1986, p. 23 . O OJ No L 44, 13. 2. 1987, p. 1 . (10) OJ No L 212, 2. 8 . 1986, p. 16. 0 OJ No L 167, 25. 7. 1972, p. 9 . (") OJ No 111 , 10 . 6. 1967, p. 2196/67. («) OJ No L 143, 30 . 5. 1984, p. 4. H OJ No L 215, 23 . 7. 1982, p. 6. O OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 12. H OJ No 136, 30 . 6. 1967, p. 2919/67. 8 OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 14. M OJ No L 200, 23. 7. 1986, p. 16.
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which the world market price is determined should be be determined in accordance with Article 6 of that disregarded ; whereas offers and quotations which the Regulation ; Commission believes, in view of general price movements or information available to it, not to be representative of the real trend of the market must also be disregarded ; Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 1 1 5/67/EEC provides whereas offers and quotations relating to quantities of less that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis than 500 tonnes and offers relating to seed of a quality for determining the world market price and where it is, other than that normally acceptable on the world market moreover, impossible to establish the value of the oil or must also be disregarded ; 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, adjusted to take account Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides of the trend of world prices for competing products by that of the offers and quotations taken into consideration, applying to that value the rules set out in Article 2 of those for delivery c and f should be increased by 0,2 % ; Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas Article 7 of Regula whereas offers and quotations for delivery fas, fob or tion No 225/67/EEC defines competing products as those othefwise should be increased, as appropriate, by loading, oils or oil cakes, as the case may be, which appear to have transport and insurance costs from the point of shipment been offered in the largest quantities on the world market or loading to the frontier crossing point ; whereas cif during the period under consideration ; offers and quotations for frontier crossing points other than Rotterdam should be adjusted to allow for the diffe rence in transport and insurance costs as compared with a Whereas, under Article 6 of Regulation No 1 1 5/67/EEC, product delivered cif Rotterdam ; whereas the Commis the price determined for colza, rape and sunflower seeds sion should take account only of the loading, transport must also be adjusted by an amount not exceeding the and insurance costs which to its knowledge are the margin, as calculated in accordance with that Article, lowest ; whereas, finally, offers and quotations for delivery where that margin may affect the normal disposal of seeds cif Rotterdam should be increased by 0,242 ECU ; harvested in the Community ;
Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/83 of 14 that the world market price should be determined for June 1983 on the subsidy for oil seeds ('), as amended by seed of the standard quality for which the target price has Regulation (EEC) No 935/86 (2), laid down rules for gran been fixed, delivered in bulk ; ting the subsidy on oil seeds ; whereas, under that Regula tion, where the subsidy to be granted is fixed in advance, the amount of such subsidy must be equal to the amount Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 225/67/EEC provides applicable on the day on which the application for that offers and quotations relating to products presented advance fixing was lodged, adjusted by the difference otherwise than in bulk should be adjusted by deducting between the target price valid on that day and the target the additional value resulting from that presentation ; price valid on the day on which the seeds are placed whereas offers and quotations relating to a quality other under control at an oil or feed mill and, where appro than the standard quality for which the target price was priate, a corrective amount ; whereas Article 35 of fixed should be adjusted on the basis of the coefficients of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 of 21 equivalence shown in the Annex to that Regulation ; September 1983 laying down detailed rules for the appli whereas, in the case of offers on the world market for cation of the subsidy system for oil seeds (3), as last qualities of colza and rape seed other than those listed in amended by Regulation (EEC) No 532/87 (4), provides that Annex, coefficients of equivalence derived from those that such adjustment should involve increasing or redu listed in that Annex may, pursuant to Article 4 of Regula cing the amount of subsidy applicable on the day on tion No 225/67/EEC, be applied ; whereas, when derived which the application was lodged by the corrective coefficients are being calculated, account must be taken of amount and the difference between the target prices the differences between prices for the qualities of seed in mentioned in Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No question and prices for the qualities listed in that Annex, 2681 /83 ; and of the characteristics of these various seeds ;
Whereas Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC provides provides that the corrective amount must be equal to the that, where no offer or quotation can be used as a basis difference between the world market price for colza, rape for determining the world market price, that price should and sunflower seeds and the forward price for those seeds be determined on the basis of the value of the average valid for a shipment effected during the month in which quantities of oil and oil cake resulting from the proces the seeds were placed under control at an oil mill, those sing of 100 kilograms of seed within the Community less prices being determined in accordance with Articles 1 , 4 an amount corresponding to the cost of processing these seeds into oil and oil cake ; whereas the quantities and (') OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 44. costs to be taken into consideration for the purposes of (2) OJ No L 87, 2. 4. 1986, p. 5. the calculation are fixed in Article 5 of Regulation No (3) OJ No L 54, 24. 2. 1987, p. 8 . 225/67/EEC ; whereas the value of those quantities should b) OJ No L 54, 24. 2. 1987, p. 8 .
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and 5 of Regulation No 115/67/EEC ; whereas, if no offer currency of the Member State concerned and the and no price can be used for such determination, the central rate of each of the currencies of the method of calculation provided for in Article 37 of Regu Member States referred to in (a), and lation (EEC) No 2681 /83 should be used ; whereas the abovementioned difference may be adjusted in accordance — the spot market rate for the currency of the with Article 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83, account Member State in question in relation to each of the currencies of the Member States referred to in being taken of the prices of the main competing cereals ; (a), as recorded over a period to be determined ;
Whereas the aid for colza, rape or sunflower seed Whereas, however, pursuant to Article 2a of Regulation harvested or processed in Spain or Portugal is to be (EEC) No 1 569/72, the monetary disparity for the marke advised as provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No ting years 1984/85 to 1986/87 will be calculated by a 478/86 (') ; whereas pursuant to Article 95 (2) and 293 (2) method which takes into account a coefficient applied to of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal this aid is the conversion rate resulting from the central rate ; to be introduced at the beginning of the 1986/87 marke whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2503/86 (*) ting year for seed harvested in these two Member States ; fixed the coefficient ;
Whereas, in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1813/84 specifies the spot 475/86 (2) and Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No and forward exchange rates and the period to be used for 476/86 (3) of 25 February 1986 laying down general rules calculating the differential amounts ; whereas in cases for the mechanism for controlling the prices and the where, for one or more months, quotations of forward quantities of certain products in the oils and fats sector exchange rates are not available, the rates adopted for the released for consumption in Spain and Portugal respecti previous months or the following months, as the case may vely, provision is made for the granting of compensatory be, must be used ; aid, subject to certain conditions ; whereas compensatory aid should be fixed for sunflower seeds harvested in Spain and Portugal ; Whereas the subsidy should be fixed whenever the market situation makes it necessary and in such a way as to ensure its being applied at least once a week ; whereas Whereas Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 the subsidy may be altered whenever it becomes obvious provides for the publication of the amount of the final that such alteration is necessary ; subsidy obtained from the conversion into each of the national currencies of the amount in ECU resulting from the calculation referred to above plus or minus the diffe Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to the rential amount ; whereas Article 1 of Commission Regula offers and quotations known to the Commission that, tion (EEC) No 1813/84 (4), as last amended by Regulation pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 2681 /83 (EEC) No 3826/85 (*), defined the elements which deter the amount of the subsidy in ECU and the amount of the mine the differential amounts ; whereas these elements subsidy in each of the national currencies must be fixed are equal to the incidence on the target price or the in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation ; subsidy of the coefficient derived from the percentage whereas, pursuant to the same Article, the spot and referred to in Article 2 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No forward exchange rates for the ECU in national currencies 1 569/72 ; whereas, according to these provisions, this determined in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation percentage represents : (EEC) No 1813/84 must also be published,
(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 :
— the conversion rate used under the common HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : agricultural policy, and
— the conversion rate resulting from the central rate,
(b) for the other Member States, the difference between : Article 1 — the relationship between the conversion rate used under the common agricultural policy for the 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, p. 55. (2) OJ No L 53, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 47. No 2681 /83 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto . (3) OJ No L 53, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 51 . (4) OJ No L 170, 29 . 6. 1984, p. 41 . 0 OJ No L 371 , 31 . 12. 1985, p. 1 . («) OJ No L 219, 6. 8 . 1986, p. 9 .
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2. The amount of the compensatory aid referred to in 4. However, the amount of the subsidy in the case of Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 475/86 and Article 12 advance fixing for July 1987 for colza and rape will be of Regulation (EEC) No 476/86 shall be as shown in confirmed or replaced as from 27 February 1987 to take Annex II to this Regulation for sunflower seed harvested into account, where appropriate, the effects of the applica in Spain and Portugal. tion of the system of maximum guaranteed quantities for colza and rape seed. 3. The amount of the subsidy in the case of advance fixing for July 1987 for colza and rape seed will, however, be confirmed or replaced as from 27 February 1987 to Article 2 take into account the indicative price, and like measures, which is fixed for these products for the 1987/88 marke This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 February 1987 . ting year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 26 February 1987. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President
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ANNEX I
Aids to colza and rape seed other than 'double zero'
(amounts per 100 kilograms) Current 2nd month 3rd month 4th month 5th month 6th month (') month
1 . Gross aids (ECU) : I I \
— Spain 0,610 0,610 0,610 0,610 0,610 0,100 — Portugal 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 — Other Member States 36,336 36,832 37,170 37,011 36,853 31,477 2. Final aids : (a) Seed harvested and processed in : l
— Federal Republic of Germany (DM) 87,55 88,74 89,56 89,28 88,91 76,37 — Netherlands (Fl) 98,65 99,98 100,91 100,58 100,17 86,00 — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs) 1 697,12 1 720,36 1 736,13 1 728,08 1 720,60 1 464,49 — France (FF) 249,20 252,72 254,81 253,19 251,95 214,25 — Denmark (Dkr) 306,44 310,67 313,51 312,11 310,71 264,46 — Ireland (£ Irl) 27,355 27,743 27,993 27,720 27,581 23,280 — United Kingdom (£) 20,192 20,503 20,684 20,552 20,422 16,915 54 521 55 283 55 678 - 55 526 55 266 46 764 — Italy (Lit) — Greece (Dr) 3 545,95 3 584,43 3 591,98 3 552,46 3 524,98 2 814,37 (b) Seed harvested in Spain and processed : — in Spain (Pta) 88,94 88,94 88,94 88,94 88,94 14,58 — in another Member State (Pta) 4 264,79 4 337,10 4 383,62 4 332,32 4 306,22 3 622,95 (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and processed : — in Portugal (Esc) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 — in another Member State (Esc) 5 159,14 5 230,12 5 248,48 5 210,47 5 181,66 4 322,02
(') Subject to the amount to be deducted in accordance with the system of guaranteed maximum quantities and the Council Decision regarding prices and related measures for the 1987/88 marketing year.
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ANNEX II
Aids to colza and rape seed 'double zero'
(amounts per 100 kilograms) Current 2nd month 3rd month 4th month 5th month 6th month (') month
1 . Gross aids (ECU) : I I I
— Spain 1,860 1,860 1,860 1,860 1,860 2,600 — Portugal 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 2,500 — Other Member States 37,586 38,082 38,420 38,261 38,103 33,977 2. Final aids : l \ \
(a) Seed harvested and processed in : \ I I I I
— Federal Republic of Germany (DM) 90,54 91,72 92,55 92,27 91,90 82,34 — Netherlands (Fl) 102,02 103,35 104,27 103,94 103,53 92,72 — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs) 1 755,71 1 778,96 1 794,73 1 786,67 1 779,19 1 581,67 — France (FF) 258,08 261,60 263,69 262,07 260,83 232,00 — Denmark (Dkr) 317,12 321,35 324,19 322,79 321,39 285,82 — Ireland (£ Irl) 28,334 28,722 28,971 28,698 28,560 25,237 — United Kingdom (£) 20,976 21,287 21,468 21,337 21,206 18,483 — Italy (Lit) 56 445 57 207 57 603 57 450 57 190 50 612 — Greece (Dr) 3 691,80 3 730,27 3 737,83 3 698,31 3 670,82 3 106,06 (b) Seed harvested in Spain and processed : I
— in Spain (Pta) 271,19 271,19 271,19 271,19 271,19 271,19 — in another Member State (Pta) 4 447,04 4 519,35 4 565,87 4 514,57 4 488,47 3 987,44 (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and processed : — in Portugal (Esc) 189,77 189,77 189,77 189,77 189,77 379,54 — in another Member State (Esc) 5 348,91 5 419,89 5 438,25 5 400,24 5 371,43 4 701,56
(') Subject to the amount to be deducted in accordance with the system of guaranteed maximum quantities and the Council Decision regarding prices and related measures for the 1987/88 marketing year.
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ANNEX III
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 1,720 — Portugal 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 — Other Member States 41,722 42,363 41,942 42,021 42,100 2. Final aids : \
(a) Seed harvested and processed in (') : I \
— Federal Republic of Germany (DM) 100,76 102,17 101,21 101,50 101,68 — Netherlands (Fl) 113,53 115,12 114,02 114,34 114,55 — BLEU (Bfrs/Lfrs) 1 950,27 1 977,97 1 958,04 1 961,11 1 964,86 — France (FF) 285,40 289,60 286,06 286,18 286,80 — Denmark (Dkr) 351,80 356,85 353,13 353,83 354,52 — Ireland (£ Irl) 31,315 31,777 31,410 31,307 31,376 — United Kingdom (£) 22,893 23,263 22,916 22,981 23,046 62 504 63 412 62 580 62 851 62 981 — Italy (Lit) — Greece (Dr) 3 990,74 4 035,00 3 932,90 3 931,34 3 945,09 (b) Seed harvested in Spain and processed : — in Spain (Pta) 250,77 250,77 250,77 250,77 250,77 — in another Member State (Pta) 3 962,51 4 048,67 3 979,93 3 960,69 3 973,74 (c) Seed harvested in Portugal and processed : — in Portugal (Esc) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 — in Spain (Esc) 6 542,12 6 629,16 6 512,96 6 515,83 6 530,71 — in another Member State (Esc) 6 329,83 6 414,04 6 301,62 6 304,39 6 318,80 3 . Compensatory aids : 3 909,45 4 000,83 3 932,09 3 915,01 3 928,06 — in Spain (Pta) — in Portugal (Esc) 6 297,06 6 384,49 6 272,07 6 276,18 6 290,58
(') For seed harvested in the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 and processed in Spain, the amounts shown in 2 (a) to be multiplied by 1,0335380.
ANNEX IV 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 5th month 6th month 2nd month 3rd month 4th month month
DM 2,065510 2,060310 2,054560 2,049370 2,049370 2,034470 Fl 2,328150 2,324710 2,321070 2,317200 2,317200 2,306620 42,993500 43,007800 43,034000 43,050100 43,050100 43,104900 Bfrs/Lfrs FF 6,876610 6,884760 6,895200 6,905390 6,905390 6,937440 Dkr 7,790740 7,812130 7,834260 7,854450 7,854450 7,914690 0,775519 0,779479 0,784085 0,787998 0,787998 0,797162 £ Irl £ 0,73441 1 0,736447 0,738421 0,740051 0,740051 0,744871 Lit 1 467,24 1 470,57 1 474,34 1 478,48 1 478,48 1 488,66 Dr 151,64800 153,77500 155,86100 158,04000 158,04000 165,59900 Esc 159,69800 161,17700 162,50700 163,88500 163,88500 167,36600 Pta 145,21900 145,82300 146,46300 147,08400 147,08400 148,83500