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No L 128 / 12 Offioial Journal of the European Communities 10 . 5 . 74
REGULATION (EEC) No 1125/74 OF THE COUNCIL
of 29 April 1974
amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC on the common organization of the market in cereals
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas a manufacturing process known as direct COMMUNITIES , hydrolysis is at present being used in the Community whereby glucose is produced from maize groats thus bypassing the 'starch' stage; whereas glucose Having regard to the Treaty establishing the produced from starch in the traditional manner European Economic Community, and in particular benefits indirectly from the production refund Article 43 thereof; granted for maize to be used in the manufacture of starch ; whereas , in order to avoid any distortion of Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; competition between glucose manufacturers
according to which of the two manufacturing Having regard to the Opinion of the European processes they use, a production refund should be Parliament ; granted for maize groats or meal used in the Community for the manufacture of glucose by direct hydrolysis ; Whereas Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organization of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regulation Whereas, pursuant to Annex A to Regulation No ( EEC) No 1346/73 (2), provides for the fixing of a 120/67/EEC, rice pellets are included under the basic intervention price for barley; whereas, in the common organization of the market in cereals, while, light of experience, the fixing of such a price should in fact, the product comes under the common organ be abolished and replaced by the fixing of a single ization of the market in rice; whereas this product intervention price with a view to promoting the should therefore no longer appear in the said Annex, interplay of market forces in respect of barley;
Whereas the fixing of the marketing year for maize from 1 August to 31 July does not correspond to HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the agricultural cycle of the cereal in question ; whereas this discrepancy encourages the use of maize Article 1 on the market at the beginning of the marketing year for barley, which results at such times in an abnormal degree of intervention on the market in The second indent of Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation barley; whereas, in order to avoid such a situation, No 120/67/EEC shall be replaced by the following: a new date should be fixed for the beginning of the marketing year for maize which is more in line with '— a basic intervention price for common its agricultural cycle and a system of carry-over wheat;'. payments similar to that for other cereals should be introduced for maize in stock at the end of the marketing year ; Article 2
Whereas the production refund for quellmehl was initially granted with a view to promoting certain Article 3 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC shall be specific uses of quellmehl as a food for human replaced by , the following: consumption, account being taken of the possibility of its competing with a number of other products ; 'Article 3
Whereas experience has shown that the opportunity With the exception of maize, for which it shall for such substitution is economically slight, if not begin on 1 October and end on 30 September of non-existent ; whereas the production refund for the following year, the marketing year for all quellmehl should therefore be abolished ; products referred to in Article 1 shall begin on 1 August and end on 31 July of the following year; the 1974/75 marketing year for maize shall, however, begin on 1 August 1974 and end on 0 OJ No 117, 19. 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67. (2 ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p. 8 . 30 September 1975.'
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Article 3 Article 4
In Article 4 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC : In Article 9 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC :
— maize shall be added to the list of cereals in 1 . The first subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall be paragraph 1 for which a carry-over payment may replaced by the following : be granted ; ' In order to guarantee to producers that the — paragraph 2 shall be replaced by : market price does not fall below a minimum level, derived intervention prices for common 'For maize, the carry-over payment shall be wheat shall be fixed for the Community, in limited to quantities in stock in areas of surplus addition to the basic intervention price .' production .'
2. Paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following : Article 5 'For barley, rye, durum wheat and maize, for which no basic intervention price is laid down, The text of Article 11 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 120/67/ single intervention prices shall be fixed for the EEC shall be replaced by the following: Community for all the marketing centres determined for those cereals . These prices shall ' 1 . A production refund shall be granted : correspond to the lowest derived intervention ( a) for maize and common wheat used in the prices which would have been fixed in the Community for the manufacture of starch ; Community, had paragraph 1 been applied in respect of the said cereals.' (b ) for potato starch ;
( c) for maize groats and meal (gritz) used in the 3 . The second subparagraph of paragraph 3 shall Community for the manufacture of glucose be replaced by the following : by direct hydrolysis ; 'The intervention price for maize shall be (d) for maize used in the Community by the effective from 1 October to 31 July of the maize industry for the manufacture of maize following year. From 1 August to 30 September, groats and meal (gritz) used in the the intervention prices effective for October of Community brewing industry for the the following marketing year shall apply. production of beer.' However, for the 1974/75 marketing year, the intervention price for maize shall be effective from 1 August 1974 to 31 July 1975 .' Article 6
4. Paragraph 4 ( a ) shall be replaced by the With effect from 1 September 1974, the text of following : tariff subheading No ex 11.02 F in Annex A to 'for each Member State, the marketing centre Regulation No 120/67/EEC shall be replaced by : for common wheat to which the lowest inter 'ex 11.02 ex F. Pellets except rice pellets.' vention price applies and the relevant price ;'
5 . Paragraph 4 ( c) shall be replaced by the Article 7 following :
'the single intervention prices for barley, rye, This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August durum wheat and maize .' 1974 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Luxembourg, 29 April 1974.
For the Council
The President
J. ERTL