NoL 182/40 Official Journal of the European Communities 3.7.87 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1960/87 of 2 July 1987 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 on the common organization of the market in cereals 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 Parl- iament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (?),- Whereas under Article 4 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No- 1579/86 (*), the co-responsibility levy is to be collected at the following stages: first processing, intervention buying or export; whereas in order to take into account- difficulties that have arisen in the application of this mechanism, and pending a report on the functioning of the said - levy,  that provision- should "be provisionally amended, by providing, for the 1987/88 marketing.year, for the possibility of also collecting the said levy when cereals are put on the market by the producers, whilst avoiding any distortion of competition; Whereas the difficulties which, moreover, have led to small producers being granted aid in the form of compensation for the co-responsibility levy still obtain; whereas Member States which have already applied the provision in question during the 1986/87 marketing year should, therefore, be authorized to make use of it again for the 1987/88 marketing year; Whereas stabilization of the conditions on the cereals market can only be achieved by increasing restrictions on recourse to intervention; whereas to that end, provision should be made firstly that no buying-in may be carried out if market prices in certain areas and for a certain period are lower than the intervention price; whereas, to the same end, provision should, in addition, be made that the prices at which the intervention agencies buy in are at a lower level than the intervention price, (*) OJ No C 89, 3. 4. 1987, p. 8. *) OJ No C 156, 15. 6. 1987. () OJ No C 150, 9. 6. 1987, p. 8. () OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. (*) OJ No L 139, 24. 5, 1986, p. 29. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 is hereby amended as follows: (1) In Article 4: — the following subparagraph shall-be added to paragraph 5: ‘However, at their request, Member States may, for the 1987/88 marketing year, be authorized to collect the co-responsibility levy when cereals are put on the market by the producers.’ — the first indent of paragraph 7 shall be replaced by the following: ‘— the definition of the first processing and that of being put on the market.’ (2) In Article 4a (4), the subparagraph shall be replaced by the following:. ‘4. During the 1987/88 marketing year, Member States which granted aid to small producers during the previous marketing year in the form of compensation for “the co-responsibility -levy, may continue -to grant such aid in that form, under conditions to be determined in accordance with the procedure laid down in paragraph 5. (3) In Article 6 (1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 5, the intervention prices, the buying-in prices referred to in Article 7 (4), the target prices and the threshold prices shall be the subject of monthly 1ncreases, phased over all or part of the marketing year.’ (4) Article 7 shall be replaced by the following: ‘Article 7 1.  Where, during a certain period, the market price for common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley, maize and sorghum is, in certain representative export ports, lower than the intervention price, a decision shall be taken that, under the procedure laid down in Article 26, the intervention agencies shall buy in the quantities offered them, provided that the offers comply with conditions, in particular in respect of quantity and quality, to be determined.