21. 9. 84 ' Official Journal of the European Communities No L 253/31 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2677/84 of 20 September 1984 on transitional measures in readiness for the revaluation of the representative rate for the German mark on 1 January 1985 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 855/84 of 31 March 1984 on the calculation and dismantle- ment of the monetary compensatory amounts applying to certain agricultural products ('), and in particular Article 7 thereof, ‘ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture following the tempo- rary widening of the margins of fluctuation for the currencies of certain Member States (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 855/84, and in particular Article 6 thereof, Whereas the modification of the representative rates for the German mark and the Dutch guilder to be undertaken on 1 January 1985 in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 855/84 entails a corresponding fall in buying-in prices expressed in national currency in the Member States concerned ; whereas, given this prospect and the present state of the markets, the scale of the monetary alteration in the Federal Republic of Germany threatens to disturb the cereals and sugar markets in particular; whereas appropriate transitional measures should therefore be taken to avoid such disturbances ; Whereas, where cereals are concerned, abnormally high deliveries into intervention before 1 January 1985 may lead to disturbances on the market and a disruption of the intervention system in Germany ; whereas a maximum limit should therefore be fixed for the quantity of cereals produced in Germany which may still be sold to the intervention agency of that Member State until 31 December 1984 at buying-in prices converted into national currency on the basis of the representative rate currently in force, the buying-in prices payable in respect of any other quantities offered to the German intervention agency being subject to the new rate ; whereas the said limit must be determined on the basis of the quantity — estimated at 2 500 000 tonnes — which would have () OJ No L 90, 1. 4. 1984, p. 1. () OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971, p. 1. been offered for intervention in normal circumstances, i.e. by discounting the size of the 1984 harvest and the quantities of common wheat of bread-making quality offered for intervention under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1810/84 (’); whereas, to be effective, this measure should apply to quantities offered to the German intervention agency from 14 September 1984, the Commission having published on the same date (*) a notice warning interested parties of its intention to introduce such a measure ; : Whereas, where sugar is concerned, the application, with effect from 1 January 1985, of a new representa- tive rate for the German mark and therefore of a reduction in the buying-in price for sugar expressed in national currency as from that date in Germany may impel manufacturers to deliver into intervention quan- tities of sugar normally marketed after that date; whereas a measure identical to that adopted in the cereals sector cannot be applied to sugar owing to the non-existence in practice of deliveries into interven- tion in normal market circumstances ; whereas provi- sion should therefore be made for the application, as from the entry into force of this Regulation, of the new representative rate for the German mark solely in respect of buying-in operations in Germany Whereas, under the terms of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 606/82 (*), sugar manufacturers are obliged to pay beet producers the minimum prices for A and B sugarbeet ; whereas, owing to the modification of the representa- tive rate for the German mark on 1 January 1985, these minimum prices expressed in national currency would, in the ordinary course of events, have to change in Germany on that date ; whereas, however, the sugar- beet harvesting and processing season begins in the said Member State in early October and continues until the end of December while the sugar obtained is marketed confinuously until the next harvest ; whereas, in order to avoid obliging the sugar manufacturers to bear the entire burden resulting. from a fall in prices expressed in national currency as from 1 January J No L 170, 29. 6. 1984, p. 33. J No L 244, 14. 9. 1984, p. 45. J No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4. J No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 1.