No L 154/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 25.6.93 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1560/93 of 14 June 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 establishing an additional levy in the milk and milk products sector THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the.European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 * thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (%), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (3), 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 (}), and in particular Article 3 (4) thereof, ! Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 (%) provides for the continuation of the additional levy scheme and lays down the basic rules for the extended scheme; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 748/93 set the guaranteed total quantities of each Member State, both for deliveries and for direct sales, subject to adjustment when all the problems linked to the setting of prices for the 1993/94 marketing year were to be reconsidered; whereas the - object of this Regulation is to make the said adjustment; ' Whereas the - temporary suspension” of a part of the reference quantities as from the fourth period of twelve months, under Regulation (EEC) No 775/87 (%), was dictated by the market situation; whereas a downward sliding indemnity was granted to producers for five years for the quantities thus suspended; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 816/92 (), which extended the additional levy scheme established by Article Sc of Regulation (EEC) No. 804/68, pending a decision in the context of the reform of thé common agricultural policy, did not adopt, in ‘the guaranteed total quantities for the ninth period, the quantities previously suspended on account of the continuing surplus situation which called for the 4,5% suspension of the deliveries reference quantities to be consolidated into a definitive reduction of the guaranteed {') OJ No C 112, 22. 4. 1993, p. 10. (3) O] No C 150, 31. 5. 1993. (3) OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. (*) OJ No L 405, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 748/93 (O] No L 77, 31. 3. 1993, p. 16). ) () O] No L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 5. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3643/90 (OJ No L 362, 27. 12. 1990, p. 9. - - , (¥) OJ No L 86, 1. 4. 1992, p. 83. total quantities; whereas, in the Regulations finally adopted in the milk and milk prodicts sector to implement the reform of the common agricultural policy, in particular Regulations (EEC) No 2071/92(’) and (EEC) No 2074/92 (®), the quantities concerned have no longer been retained; Whereas, in the context of the reform of the common agricultural policy, the Council decided upon the principle of extending the additional levy and re-examining the guaranteed total quantities in- the light of the general market situation and particular situations existing in certain Member States; Whereas an analysis of the market made by the Commission reveals a situation which is far more worrying with regard to milk fats than with regard to milk proteins; whereas the Council has therefore decided to try to remedy immediately thé market imbalance in milk fats and to apply as from 1 July 1993 a reduction of 3% to the butter intervention price amending in consequence Regulation (EEC) No 2072/92 (%); Whereas exdmination of the respective situations of each Member State to determine the implementation of the additional levy scheme has brought to light certain problems with different origins which should be taken into consideration by differentiating between . the increases of the guaranteed total quantities; whereas the flat-rate increase is granted for Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal in order to allow them to respect certain priorities in the allocation to producers; whereas the increase in the quantities for Spain, Greece and Italy has already been granted for the period 1993/94; whereas, before the beginning of the 1994/95 period; there will be-a new review to see if the conditions to which the definitive increase of the guaranteed total quantity of these three Member States is subject are actually fulfilled; Whereas, -when the aforementioned examination was conducted, it appeared appropriate to amend the allocation of the quantities for the new German Linder and for Portugal between direct sales and deliveries in favour of the latter; Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 provides for the possibility of implementing different measures for the restructuring of milk production; - whereas these measures include programmes for the (") OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 64. (®) OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 69. (*®) OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 65.