Activites

• 1995/12/23 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 1995/2989
  • OJ L 312 23.12.1995, p. 0005
• #1896
• 1995/12/19 Council Meeting
• 1995/12/19 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1995/12/19 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• #1889
• 1995/11/29 Council Meeting
• 1995/10/27 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0529/1995 summary

    In adopting the report by Mr Alan GILLIS (PPE, IRL), the European Parliament approved the proposal on extraordinary set-aside with the following amendments: - it felt that the set-aside scheme should be simplified in order to make it fairer and more transparent and that, as a result, the introduction of a specific rate for extraordinary set-aside should be revised with a view to making it more flexible; - in order to ensure greater equilibrium within the market, Parliament called for the establishment of a new support system to bring Community prices for certain arable crops into line with prices on the world market and to compensate the loss of income by means of a compensatory payment to producers. In this way, the only areas eligible for extraordinary set-aside should be those that had been sown or that had benefited from a system of state aid for fallow land. The idea behind this was that the Member States could choose to apply this measure in light of specific circumstances. Thus: - when land was used to justify a request for aid under the CAP (Regulation (EEC) No 805/68) rather than aid for extraordinary set-aside, this land would not be taken into consideration in the calculation of the rate of extraordinary set-aside; - the percentage of extraordinary set-aside should be revised when base areas had been exceeded due to exceptional climatic conditions; - this percentage should be calculated in such a way so as to equal the percentage exceeding the total regional (or specific) base areas by deducting 100% (rather then 75%, as proposed by the Commission) of the land set aside under voluntary set-aside; - the Member States could depart from the principle of extraordinary set-aside to take account of specific situations (particularly for land involved in a restructuring programme or for certain land that was to be rotated, or in the case of leased land). In these situations, the Member States would take measures to avoid any unnecessary increase in the total agricultural land involved. Parliament also added a specific derogation for maize to be implemented from the 1995/96 marketing year rather than the 1996/97 marketing year. �

• 1995/10/26 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• #1876
• 1995/10/25 Council Meeting
  • 1876 summary

    The Council agreed to resume consideration of the proposal upon receipt of the European Parliament’s opinion. The Council also received a request from several Member States to include in the proposal - without delaying adoption of the Regulation - the approach adopted when setting the set-aside rates for the 1996/1997 marketing year. That approach concerns: - regional application of penalties if the national area is exceeded; - taking account of exceptional climatic conditions in calculating yields. The Council took note of the information given by the Commission representative concerning the progress of Commission work on those two aspects, which indicated that it would not be possible to include those new aspects in the proposal currently being examined by the Council.

• 1995/10/17 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0246/1995
• #1869
• 1995/09/26 Council Meeting
  • 1869
• 1995/09/18 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1995/07/26 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1995)0401 summary

    OBJECTIVE: amending the method of calculating the rate of extraordinary set-aside for arable crops to ensure that voluntary set-aside is no longer taken into consideration. SUBSTANCE: the extraordinary set-aside scheme (additional set-aside on top of the compulsory set-aside of a predetermined percentage of land applied without compensation to producers in a region where a regional base area has been exceeded) was introduced to contain the growth in the area of land used to grow cereals, oleaginous plants and protein crops in a given region and the resulting increase in cereal production (Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92). The voluntary set-aside was introduced in the 1994/95 marketing year as an additional method of controlling production. Nevertheless, the introduction of such a system involves certain risks, the main one being that producers are tempted to include land that should not normally be cultivated among their voluntary set-aside. Since this type of set-aside is not as effective in reducing production as compulsory set-aside, the Commission proposes that the method of calculating the rate of extraordinary set-aside exclude voluntary set-aside. This amendment in the method of calculation is to be applied where the 1995/96 cultivated base area is exceeded (in other words for the harvest that will be sold during the 1996/97 marketing year). At the same time, the Commission proposes granting Austria a special aid of ECU 138.86/ha for the production of durum wheat in regions where this crop is not traditionally grown, up to a maximum of 5 000 ha. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1995)0401
• Debate in Council: 1869
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0246/1995
• Debate in Council: 1876
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0529/1995
• : Regulation 1995/2989
• : OJ L 312 23.12.1995, p. 0005

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)