No L 181/12 Official Journal of the European Communities 1.7.92 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1765/92 of 30 June 1992 establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), . Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas the common agricultural policy aims to attain the objectives referred to in Article 39 of the Treaty, taking account of the market situation; Whereas, in order to ensure better market balances, a new support system has to be established; whereas the best way to achieve this objective is to approximate the Community prices of certain arable crops to the prices of the world market and to compensate the loss of income caused by the reduction of the institutional prices by a compensatory payment for producers who sow such products; whereas therefore the area eligible should be restricted to the area down to arable crops or publicly funded set aside in the past; whereas application of this principle at the level of the individual producer would give rise to problems which differ between Member States; whereas therefore the Member States should have the opportunity to choose between individual past references and regional ones in the light of their specific circumstances; Whereas the new support system shall be applied with effect from the marketing year 1993/94 onwards; Whereas the compensatory payments should be introduced for existing holdings and the participation in the support system should be voluntary, Whereas such compensatory payments should reflect the specific structural characteristics that influence yield and whereas the drawing up of a regionalization plan based on objective criteria should be left to the Member (*) OJ No C 303, 22. 11. 1991, p. 1. () OJ No C 125, 18. 5. 1992. ) OJ No C 98, 21. 4. 1992, p. 15. States; whereas uniform average yields should be estab- lished by the regionalization plans; whereas these plans must be consistent with the average yields of each region achieved in a given period; whereas a specific procedure should be provided in order to examine these plans at Community level; Whereas maize has a different yield which distinguishes it from other cereals and therefore may justify a separate treatment; ‘ t Whereas, in order to calculate the cereals compensatory payment, a basic amount per tonne should be multxphed. by the average cereals yneld determined for the region concerned; Whereas the present policy concerning durum wheat is to discourage production especially outside the tra- ditional production zones and whereas this policy should be continued; whereas, however, a supplement to the cereals compensatory payment should be paid for producers of durum wheat in the traditional production zones as currently defined; whereas this supplement should compensate durum wheat producers in these regions for the income loss due to alignment on the price for other cereals; Whereas, in .order to calculate the compensatory payment for oilseeds, it is necessary to establish a projected reference price, a Community reference amount, the calculation mcthod and appropriate corrective measures; Whereas rules must be established in order to take into account the specific situation in Spain and Portugal, including the different rates of progress towards inte- gration as foreseen in the 1985 Act of Accession; Whereas, in order to facilitate administration and control, the compensatory payments should be granted under a ‘general scheme’ open to all producers and a ‘simplified scheme’ open only to small producers; Whereas small producers should be defined on the basis of an area equivalent to annual production of not more than 92 tonnes of cereals; whereas the yield averages for cereals in the different regions, which have been defined in the regionalization plans for the aid, should be also used to determine small producers; : Whereas, in order to benefit from the compensatory payments under the ‘general scheme’, producers must set aside a predetermined percentage of their arable area; whereas the set-aside should normally be organized on