COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1723/93 of 30 June 1993 determining the prices and amounts fixed in the milk and milk products sector which are reduced as a result of the monetary realignments of September and November 1992, and January and May 1993

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy (1), and in particular Article 9 (1) thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 of 28 December 1992 laying down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus to be amended as a result of the monetary realignments (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1330/93 (3), and in particular Article 2 thereof,

Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3820/92 of 28 December 1992 on transitional measures for the application of agrimonetary arrangements laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (4) establishes a link between the agrimonetary arrangements applicable with effect from 1 January 1993 and those applying previously;

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 lays down the list of prices and amounts in the fruit and vegetables sector which are to be divided by the reducing coefficient of 1,013088, fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1331/93 (5) with effect from the beginning of the 1993/94 marketing year, under the arrangements for the automatic dismantlement of negative monetary gaps; whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 provides that the resulting reductions in the prices and amounts are to be specified for each sector concerned and that the reduced prices and amounts are to be fixed;

Whereas the inclusion on the list set out in Part 8 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 of the amounts adjusting the threshold price for Group 11 products and referred to in Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2915/79 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3798/91 (7), would without justification cancel the reduction resulting from the application of the reduced coefficient to the threshold price to be used for the products concerned for calculating the import levies; whereas that coefficient should therefore not be applied to the adjustment amounts concerned;

Whereas the target price for milk and intervention prices for butter, skimmed-milk powder and Grano Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses are fixed for the 1993/94 marketing year by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1561/93 (8); whereas the threshold prices for certain milk products are fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1562/93 (9); whereas the free-at-frontier values of certain cheeses imported from third countries are fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1767/82 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1317/93 (11); whereas the special levy on New Zealand butter is fixed in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3841/92 (12); whereas the aid on skimmed milk processed into casein and caseinates is fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2921/90 (13), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 140/93 (14); whereas the range for aid on skimmed-milk powder used as feed is fixed in Article 2a (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 986/68 (15), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1115/89 (16); whereas the aid amounts for skimmed milk and skimmed-milk powder used as feed are fixed in Article 1a (3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1105/68 (17), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2292/92 (18); whereas the aid permitting the purchase of butter at reduced prices by persons receiving social assistance is fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2990/82 (19), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3654/92 (20); whereas the aid for milk producers in Portugal referred to in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 739/93 (21) are fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1579/93 (22); whereas the aid amounts for human consumption of fresh milk products is fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91 (23), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3714/92 (24), and by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2234/92 (25) and (EEC) No 2235/92 (26);

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The prices and amounts fixed in ecus and applicable from the 1993/94 marketing year in the milk and milk products sector which are reduced as provided for in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 are as set out in the Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 July 1993.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1993.

For the Commission

René STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 29.

(3) OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 113.

(4) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 22.

(5) OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 114.

(6) OJ No L 329, 24. 12. 1979, p. 1.

(7) OJ No L 357, 28. 12. 1991, p. 3.

(8) OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 33.

(9) OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 34.

(10) OJ No L 196, 5. 7. 1982, p. 1.

(11) OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 78.

(12) OJ No L 390, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.

(13) OJ No L 279, 11. 10. 1990, p. 22.

(14) OJ No L 19, 28. 1. 1993, p. 15.

(15) OJ No L 169, 18. 7. 1968, p. 4.

(16) OJ No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 7.

(17) OJ No L 184, 29. 7. 1968, p. 24.

(18) OJ No L 221, 6. 8. 1992, p. 18.

(19) OJ No L 314, 10. 11. 1982, p. 26.

(20) OJ No L 370, 19. 12. 1992, p. 1.

(21) OJ No L 77, 31. 3. 1993, p. 4.

(22) OJ No L 152, 24. 6. 1993, p. 12.

(23) OJ No L 356, 24. 12. 1991, p. 1.

(24) OJ No L 378, 23. 12. 1992, p. 23.

(25) OJ No L 218, 31. 7. 1992, p. 102.

(26) OJ No L 218, 31. 7. 1992, p. 105.

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