31987R4015

No L 378 /21 31 . 12 . 87 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 4015/87 of 30 December 1987 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN. COMMUNITIES, whereas offers and quotations recorded during the first 25 days of the month in question for quantities that can be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European delivered during the following calendar month are to be Economic Community, and in particular Article 5 thereof, used ; whereas the average world market price thus deter­ Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and mined is used to fix the supplementary aid rate applicable Portugal, on the following month ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in the of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the case of offers and quotations not of the type referred to market in dried fodder (*), as last amended by Regulation above ; whereas these adjustments were defined in Article (EEC) No 3996/87 (2), and in particular Article 5 (3) 3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30 thereof, June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, of the system of aid for dried fodder f), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2334/87 (8) ; Whereas, under Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78, when the guide price is higher than the average Whereas, when no offer of or quotation for the products world market price, aid is given for dried fodder as described in the first indent of Article 1 (b) of Regulation described under Article 1 (b) and (c) of that Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 can be used to determine the average obtained from fodder plants harvested in the Commu­ world market price, it is to be determined from offers on nity ; whereas this aid is equal to a percentage of the the world market of, and quotations on, the exchanges difference between these two prices for dehydrated fodder important for international trade for the products and for protein concentrates ; whereas the aid for fodder described in the second indent of Article 1 (b) of Regula­ otherwise dried includes an amount to be deducted ; tion (EEC) No 1117/78 ; Whereas this percentage and the guide price were fixed Whereas, under Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1961 /87 of 2 July 1987 1417/78, when no offer or quotation can be used to deter­ fixing the guide price for dried fodder for the 1987/88 mine the average world market price, this price is deter­ marketing year (3) ; mined on the basis of he sum of the value of competing Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2334/87 (4), products ; whereas those products are defined in Article 3 fixed the rate referred to in Article 5 (2) of Regulation (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 ; (EEC) No 1117/78 ; Whereas, under Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, in the absence of the guide price for dried 1417/78 , when forward prices differ from that applying in fodder and of the percentage referred to in Article 5 of the month when the application is lodged, the aid rate is Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 and of the intervention adjusted by a correcting amount calculated from the trend price for barley for the 1988/89 marketing year, the rate of forward prices ; of the aid in case of advance fixing for the months Whereas the correcting amount is equal to the difference concerned has been obtainable only provisionally and between the average world market price and the average should be confirmed or replaced once the guide price and forward world market price multiplied by the percentage the percentages referred to in Article 5 of Regulation fixed in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No (EEC) No 1 117/78 and of the intervention price for barley 1315/85 (9) ; whereas when for one of the months fol­ for the 1988/89 marketing year are known ; lowing that of the introduction of aid the average forward Whereas the average world market price is determined for world market price cannot be determined by applying the a bulk pelleted product, delivered to Rotterdam, of the criteria specified in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No standard quality for which the guide price has been fixed ; 1417/78 , the price determined for the previous month is used to calculate the difference ; whereas when for two or Whereas, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 of more consecutive months following that of the introduc­ 19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried fodder ^, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1173/87 (*), the average tion of aid, the average forward world market prices cannot be determined by applying the criteria set out in world market price for the products described in the first Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78, the prices for indent of Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 is to be determined on the basis of the most favourable the months in question are determined by applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No actual purchase possibilities excepting those which cannot 1417/78 ; be considered representative of the real market trend ; Whereas, where the average world market price is deter­ (') OJ No L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1 . mined in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) 0 OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987. (3) OJ No L 184, 3. 7. 1987, p. 7. (4) OJ No L 210, 1 . 8 . 1987, p. 63 . O OJ No L 179, 1 . 7. 1978 , p. 10. 0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 . (■) OJ No L 210, 1 . 8 . 1987, p. 63. OI No L 113, 30. 4. 1987, p. 13 . 9 OJ No L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 28 .

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No 1417/78, the corrective amount must be equal to the dence of customs duties on imports of these products from third countries ; whereas, in addition, in Spain the difference between the average world market price and the average forward world market price determined by amount is to be adjusted by the difference, multiplied by applying the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regula­ the percentage and the amount referred to in Article 5 (2) tion (EEC) No 1528/78 and valid for delivery during a of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 , between the guide price month other than' that in which the aid is introduced, applied in Spain and the common guide price ; adjusted by the percentage fixed under Article 5 (2) of Whereas, as the result of the applications of all these Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 for the product concerned ; whereas where the average forward world market price for provisions to the offers and quotations which the Commission has recorded, the rate of the aid for dried one or more months cannot be determined by applying fodder must be fixed as indicated in the table annexed to the criteria laid down in Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78, the corrective amount must be fixed for the this Regulation, month or months in question at a level such that the aid is equal to zero ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas, if the aid system is to operate normally, refunds should be calculated on the following basis ; — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ Article 1 tion to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in 1 . The rate of the aid referred to in Article 5 (3) of the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­ Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 is fixed in the Annex to tion (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regula­ this Regulation. tion (EEC) No 1636/87 (2) ; 2. The rate of the aid in case of advance fixing for the — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the 1988/89 marketing year shall, however, be confirmed or arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of replaced with effect from 1 January 1988 to take into these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ account the prices and measures in the Annex fixed for tion to the Community currencies referred to in the the 1988/89 marketing year. previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;

Whereas, pursuant to Articles 120 (2) and 306 (2) of the Article 2 Act of Accession, the aid applicable in these two Member States is to be adjusted by an amount equal to the inci­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 December 1987 . For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(■) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 153, 13 . 6 . 1987, p. 1 .

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1987 fixing the rate of the aid for dried fodder

Aid applicable from 1 January 1988 to dried fodder

(ECU/tonne) Fodder dehydrated by artificial heat-drying Fodder otherwise dried Protein concentrates

Other Other Spain Portugal Member Spain Portugal Member States States

Aid 65,270 85,613 87,330 22,270 42,613 44,330

Aid in case of advance fixing for the month of :

(ECU/tonne)

February 1988 65,989 86,345 88,049 22,989 43,345 45,049 March 1988 65,989 86,345 88,049 22,989 43,345 45,049 April 1988 67,725 88,114 89,785 24,725 45,114 46,785 May 1988 (') 70,568 91,010 92,628 27,568 48,010 49,628 June 1988(0 70,568 91,010 92,628 27,568 48,010 49,628 July 1988 (') 70,250 90,686 92,310 27,250 47,686 49,310 August 1988 0 70,606 91,049 92,666 27,606 48,049 49,666 September 19880 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 October 1988 0 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000

(■) Subject in the case of advance fixing for the 1988/89 marketing year to the adoption of prices and related measures for that marketing year. (2) In accordance with Article 6 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1528/78 .