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21.9.66 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 2965/66

REGULATION No 130/66/EEC OF THE COUNCIL of 26 July 1966 on the financing of the common agricultural policy

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC No 25 so that from 1 July 1967 'the Fund will finance COMMUNITY, refunds on exports to third countries calculated on the basis of the gross quantities of exports ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Whereas the increase in the contribution to the Articles 43 and 200 (3 ) thereof; expenditure eligible under the Guarantee Section involves , under the ' one third' rule laid down in Having regard to Council Regulation No 25 1 on the Article 5 (2 ) of Regulation No 25 , an increase in the financing of the common agricultural policy; amount to be assigned to the Guidance Section ; whereas in view of the increase in the expenditure of Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; the Guarantee Section which may be expected from 1 July 1967, a ceiling should be fixed from the Having regard to the Opinion of the European accounting period 1967/68 for expenditure under the Parliament ; Guidance Section, without prejudice to any possible increase ; Whereas the system laid down in Articles 3 to 8 of Regulation No 25 must be supplemented by Whereas account should be taken, in connection with provisions relating in particular to the contribution of actions under the Guidance Section, of the the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee unfavourable situation of Italy as regards agricultural fund to the expenditure eligible under the Guarantee structure and of the need, acknowledged in the Section, and to the receipts which should finance the Protocol on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, for Fund for the period from 1 July 1965 to the end of improvement in the agricultural structure of the transitional period; Luxembourg ;

Whereas, account being taken of the progress already Whereas Article 18 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No made and the agreements reached concerning the 17/64/EEC2 on the conditions for granting aid from progress to be made over the next two years in the the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund has fixed a maximum for aid from the Fund at implementation of the common market and the common agricultural policy, the contribution of the 25 per cent of the investment made; whereas from Fund to the expenditure eligible under the Guarantee the accounting period 1967/68 provision should be Section should be increased systematically for the made for the possibility of increasing that aid for years 1965 /66 and 1966/67 and it should be decided certain categories of projects to be defined within the that from the year 1967/68 the contribution of the framework of Community Programmes, account Fund will cover the total expenditure eligible under being taken in particular of the state of the the Guarantee Section ; agricultural structures of Italy and Luxembourg ;

Whereas in view of the progress made, expenditure Whereas steps should be taken to counteract the incurred within the framework of the common effects of the delay in implementing the common organisation of agricultural markets should be organisation of the markets, involving the financial increasingly borne by the Fund by changing the responsibility of the Community, in olives, olive oil, criterion laid down in Article 3 ( 1 ) ( a) of Regulation fruit and vegetables, and sugar, by allotting to certain

1 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p . 991 /62 . 2 OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p. 586/64.

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Member States amounts for financing measures in Community is responsible for financing, the eligible favour of those sectors ; expenditure shall be taken over, as soon as the common organisation of each market is implemented, Whereas provision should also be made for the according to the rule laid down in paragraph 1 . Community to assume financial responsibility in the tobacco sector for the year 1967/68 ; Article 3 Whereas in respect of the receipts of the Fund provision should be made, for the years 1965/66 and The expenditure of the Fund shall be covered by financial contributions from the Member States 1967/68 , for a scale which would take account of the need to limit the contributions of certain Member determined according to the following scale: States ; Accounting Accounting period period Whereas from 1 July 1967 the contributions of 1965/66 1966/67 Member States to the expenditure of the Guarantee Section of the Fund should be calculated on the basis Belgium 7-95 7-95 of the levies in relation to third countries collected 31-67 30-83 Germany by each Member State, and for the remainder of that France 32-58 29-26 expenditure, as far as is necessary, a fixed scale, valid also for the expenditure of the Guidance Section, Italy 18-00 22-00 should be applied ; 0-2-2 ■ Luxembourg 0-22 Netherlands 9-58 ' 9-74 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article 1 Article 4

The system of financing the common agricultural 1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of policy by means of the European Agricultural Article 11 (2) and Articles 13 to 22 of Regulation No Guidance and Guarantee Fund (hereinafter called the 17/64/EEC, an amount of 45 000 000 units of 'Fund') shall, for the period from 1 July 1965 to the account shall be paid in advance to the Italian end of the transitional period, comprise two stages : Republic for the year 1965/66 ( 1967 budget) from the resources of the Guidance Section of the Fund, for — 1 July 1965 to 30 June 1967, and the purpose of making structural improvements in the production and marketing of olives, olive oil, — 1 July 1967 to the end of the transitional period. fruit and vegetables .

2. The Italian Republic shall be entitled to a share TITLE I of the amounts remaining at the disposal of the Guidance Section of the Fund, under the conditions System for the stage from 1 July 1965 to 30 June which are operative and upon the same basis as the 1967 other Member States .

Article 2 3 . The Italian Republic shall, before the end of the transitional period, submit to the Commission one or 1 . For products subject on 1 July 1965 to the more reports, accompanied by supporting documents, common organisation of markets, involving the on the expenditure incurred in respect of the financial responsibility of the Community, the measures referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article contribution of the Guarantee Section of the Fund to from 1 November 1965 for olives and olive oil, and expenditure eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) (a), (b) and from 1 January 1966 for fruit and vegetables . (c) of Regulation No 25 shall from that date be fixed at : Article 5 — six-tenths for the accounting period 1965/66,

— seven-tenths for the accounting period 1966/67 . 1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of Articles 2 to 8 of Regulation No 17/64/EEC and of 2. For products in respect of which a common Article 2 of this Regulation, expenditure by the organisation of markets applies after 1 July 1965 and Kingdom of Belgium during the 1965 /66 marketing before 1 July 1967, and to the extent to which the year on marketing sugar shall be reimbursed by the

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Guarantee Section of the Fund ; such reimbursement down in the Regulations on individual products may not exceed an amount of 4 000 000 units of on the basis of account . . ( i ) the rate of refund of the Member State whose average refund is the lowest, and 2 . The expenditure referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is the subject of the application for ( ii ) the net quantities exported up to and during reimbursement submitted by the Kingdom of Belgium the accounting period 1966/67 and the gross in pursuance of Article 9 of Regulation No quantities exported subsequently.' 17/64/EEC and of the decision to grant aid from the Fund taken by the Commission in pursuance of 2. The words 'the net quantities' in the first Article 10 of that Regulation for the accounting subparagraph of Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation No period 1 965 /66. 17/64/EEC shall be replaced by the words 'the net quantities and, from the accounting period 1967/68 , the gross quantities '. Article 6 The word ' net' in Article 2 (4) and in the first and 1 . The financial responsibility of the Community second sentences of the last subparagraph of Article 4 shall continue to be guaranteed for the year 1966/67 ( 3 ) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC shall be deleted. until the implementation of the common organisation of the markets in sugar and olive oil and of the Article 9 1 supplementary provisions concerning the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables . The following subparagraph shall be added to Article 5 ( 2 ) of Regulation No 25 : 2 . The Council , acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 of the Treaty, shall 'However, from the . accounting period 1967/68 , take the necessary decisions to ensure effective the contribution of the Fund to expenditure assumption of this responsibility for amounts at least eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) ( d ) of this Regulation ,equal to those of the preceding year. determined in accordance with the above subparagraph, may not exceed an annual amount of 285 000 000 units of account. This amount TITLE II may be increased by the Council acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 of the Treaty .' Rules for the stage from 1 July 1967 to the end of the transitional period Article 10 Article 7 The first indent of Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1 . In respect of products for which a common 17/ 64/EEC shall be supplemented as follows : organisation of markets, involving the financial 'however, from the accounting period 1967/68 for responsibility of the Community, already exists on 1 certain kinds of projects set out in the July 1967, the contribution from the Guarantee Community Programmes provided for in Article Section of the Fund shall, from that date, cover all 16 of this Regulation, they may be increased up to the expenditure eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) (a), (b) a maximum of 45% ;' and ( c) of Regulation No 25 .

Article 11 2 . In respect of other products, any eligible expenditure shall be taken over in accordance with 1 . The expenditure of the Guarantee Section of the the rule laid down in paragraph 1 from the time Fund shall be covered by financial contributions from when the common organisation of markets in those the Member States calculated, for the first part, in products begins to apply. proportion to the levies in relation to third countries collected by each Member State, and, for the second Article 8 part, as far as is necessary, according to a fixed scale.

1 . The following shall be substituted for Article 3 2. The first part of the contributions of Member ( 1 ) ( a) of Regulation No 25 : States shall be equal to 90% of the total amount of the levies in relation to third countries collected by '(a) Refunds on exports to third countries, Member States during the accounting period in calculated in accordance with the provisions laid question.

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3 . The second part of the contributions of Guidance Section of the Fund under the conditions Member States shall be calculated according to the which are operative and on the same basis as the following scale : other Member States .

Belgium 8-1 3 . The Italian Government shall , ' before 1 July Germany 31-2 1967, communicate to the Commission the France 32 programme of measures which it proposes to adopt in order to achieve the objective referred to in Italy 20-3 paragraph 1 . The Commission shall obtain the 0-2 observations of the other Member States and where Luxembourg appropriate make any recommendations it considers Netherlands . 8-2 expedient to the Italian Government.

4. For the purposes of this Article, 'levies in The Italian Republic shall, before the end of the relation to third countries' means levies and charges transitional period, submit to the Commission a other than customs duties introduced in trade with , report, accompanied by supporting documents, on third countries in accordance with Article 43 of the expenditure incurred within the framework of that Treaty. programme from 1 July 1967 in respect of the The list of charges other than customs duties measures referred to in paragraph 1 . introduced in pursuance of the Regulations already in force instituting common organisation of markets which have been declared identical with levies in TITLE III relation to third countries is set out in the Annex to this Regulation . Special provisions In future Regulations on the common organisation of markets the Council shall declare which charges Article 13 other than customs duties are identical with levies in relation to third countries . 1 . By way of derogation from the provision of Articles 11 to 22 of Regulation No 17/64/EEC, an 5 . The expenditure of the Guidance Section of the amount of 8 000 000 units of account shall be paid to Fund shall be covered by financial contributions from the Italian Republic from the resources of the Member States, calculated according to the scale laid Guidance Section of the Fund (accounting period down in paragraph 3 of this Article. 1964/65 ) in reimbursement of expenditure during the 1964/65 marketing year on production and Article 12 marketing of olives and olive oil.

1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of 2 . The Italian Republic shall be entitled to a share Article 11 (2) and of Articles 13 to 22 of Regulation of any amounts remaining at the disposal of the No 17/64/EEC, an amount of 15 000 000 units of Guidance Section of the Fund, under the conditions account shall be paid to the Italian Republic ¥or the which are operative and on the same basis as the other Member States . year 1967/68 ( 1969 budget) from the resources of the Guidance Section of the Fund, for the purpose of making structural improvements in the production 3 . The Italian Republic shall submit to the and marketing of raw tobacco. Commission one or more reports, accompanied by supporting documents, on the expenditure referred to 2. The Italian Republic shall be entitled to a share in paragraph 1 with a view to the payment of the of any amounts remaining at the disposal of the amount stated in that paragraph.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 July 1966. For the Council

The President

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ANNEX

List referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 11 (4)

1 . Amounts to be added to the levies :

( a) premiums provided for at the time of the advance fixing of levies :

— cereals (Article 17 (2) of Council Regulation No 191 and Article 1 (2) of Council Regulation No 63/65/EEC2), — rice (Article 11 (2) and (3 ) of Council Regulation No 16/64/EEC3);

( b) additional amounts provided for with a view to the application of the sluice-gate price : — pigmeat (Article 7 (3 ) of Council Regulation No 204), — eggs (Article 6 (3 ) of Council Regulation No 215 ), — poultrymeat (Article 6 (3) of Council Regulation No 226) ;

( c) additional amounts and additional partial amounts provided for in certain cases :

— in respect of products processed from cereals , milk products and rice (Article 14 (2) of Regulation No 19 , Article 6 (2) of Council Regulation No 13/64/EEC ,7 Article 2 (5) of Regulation No 16/64/EEC), ' — in respect of certain kinds of compound feeding-stuffs ( Article 7 of Council Regulation No 166/64/EEC ), — in respect of certain varieties of common wheat (Article 1 of Council Decision of . 28 June 1966 9 ).

2. Countervailing duties :

Fruit and vegetables (Article 11 (2) of Council Regulation No 2310 as amended by Council Regulation No 65/65/EEC11).

1 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p . 933/62 . 2 OJ No 86, "20.5.1 965 , p . 1454/65 . 3 OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p . 574/64 . 4 OJ No 30, '20.4.1962, p. 945/62. 6 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 953/62 . 6 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 959/62 . 7 OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p. 549/64. 8 OJ No 173 , 31.10.1964, p . 2747/64. 9 03 No 117, 29.6.1966 , p . 2167/66. 10 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962 , p . 965 /62. 11 OJ No 86, 20.5.1965 , p . 1458/65 .