Commission Regulation (EC) No 428/2008 of 8 May 2008 on determining the intervention centres for cereals (Codified version)

of 8 May 2008

on determining the intervention centres for cereals

(Codified version)

Preamble

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29 September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in cereals ¹ , and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2273/93 of 28 July 1993 on determining the intervention centres for cereals ² has been substantially amended several times ³ . In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Regulation should be codified.

(2) To ensure the proper working of the intervention system, the selection of intervention centres should be based on a geographical location and storage facilities which allow the assembly and disposal of substantial quantities of cereals.

(3) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The intervention centres to be determined pursuant to Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 shall meet one of the following conditions:

(a) location in regions having an appreciable production of cereals which substantially exceeds local demand either regularly or occasionally, taking account of agricultural and market structures in that region;

(b) existence of substantial storage facilities;

(c) special importance as a market for the goods inside and outside the Community.

Article 2

1. Of the centres situated in regions of the kind referred to in Article 1(a), only those shall be considered which have: (a) storage facilities with technical equipment permitting the taking over, handling and discharge of a sufficiently large quantity of cereals; (b) transport connections favourable to the taking over and, more important, the disposal of cereals.

2. Of the centres meeting the conditions referred to in Article 1(b) or (c), only those shall be considered whose storage facilities, technical equipment and advantageous geographical location permit the assembly and, more important, the disposal of substantial homogeneous quantities of cereals.

Article 3

Regulation (EEC) No 2273/93 is repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Final provisions

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 8 May 2008. For the Commission The President José Manuel BARROSO

¹ OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 735/2007 ( OJ L 169, 29.6.2007, p. 6 ). Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 is to be replaced by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 ( OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1 ) from 1 July 2008.

² OJ L 207, 18.8.1993, p. 1 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation No (EC) 2004/2006 ( OJ L 379, 28.12.2006, p. 54 ).

³ See Annex II.

1. The sign ‘+’ indicates that the location shown is treated as an intervention centre for the cereal in question.

2. The sign ‘–’ indicates that the location shown is not to be treated as an intervention centre for the cereal in question.

Repealed Regulation with list of its successive amendments

Correlation table

Footnotes

1. . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 735/2007 (). Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 is to be replaced by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 () from 1 July 2008. ↩ ↩²

2. . Regulation as last amended by Regulation No (EC) 2004/2006 (). ↩ ↩²

3. See Annex II. ↩ ↩²