Whereas, because of the situation on the world market, certain sectors of agricultural and industrial production in the Community would be adversely affected if the effects of the removal of import barriers were not offset by other measures;

List of the agricultural products in respect of which price differences between the world market and the Community market can be offset on importation (*)

where a preferential agreement concluded with a specific area provides for a special offsetting method, the difference between prices on the Community market and prices on the world market may be replaced by the difference defined in that agreement.

On the other hand, collective consumption of PNPISHs rises because non-market produces may have to pay some of the fees in question, raising intermediate consumption, but this is offset by a decrease in taxes on production.

Whereas, to offset the effect of the adjustment to the intervention scheme, provision should be made for supporting producers' income while maintaining the existing premium schemes during the present period of uncertainty on the market in beef and veal;

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 of 11 November 1980 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products (4) provides for the levying on imports of certain goods of a charge consisting of a fixed component for the protection of the processing industry and a variable component to offset any difference between the prices of the relevant agricultural products in the Community and on the world market;

In order to ensure that overall support is sufficient to maintain traditional production of long flax fibre in conditions similar to those provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70 of 4 July 1970 on the common organisation of the market in flax and hemp (6), the aid should be gradually increased to offset the gradual reduction in the aid per hectare paid to growers under Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999 and, ultimately, the abolition of the aid for short flax fibre.

whereas, on the one hand, it is appropriate to draw up, in respect of the goods to which the arrangements currently apply, set out in Table 1 of Annex B, the list of agricultural products for which price differences between the world market and the Community market can be offset on importation, and, on the other hand, it must be possible to identify among those agricultural products the basic products for which such differences are actually recorded, the quantities of other agricultural products, assimilated products or products resulting from their processing being converted into equivalent quantities of basic products;

Total current expenditure on environmental protection should be reported gross of any cost offsets resulting from the sale of marketable by-products, savings or subsidies received.

The exporting producer therefore argued that any loss of sales volume (and further injurious consequences) incurred by the Community industry on its domestic market was offset when taking into account the Community industry's export sales to CEEC.

On the basis of market information, it would appear that the advantage of proximity is offset by logistical disadvantages created by transport, storage and loading infrastructures and that, in practice, freight costs over the long term are equivalent.

The second objective is to ensure the control and monitoring of operations and to provide the administrative authorities with the instruments they need to ascertain whether the objectives of the scheme are being attained - these being, in particular, to ensure a regular supply of certain agricultural products and to offset the effects of the geographical situation of outermost regions by ensuring that the benefits of the scheme are actually passed on to the stage at which the products destined for the end users are placed on the market.