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Agriculture - Common organization of the markets - Milk and milk products - Additional levy on milk - Determination of reference quantities exempt from the levy - Account taken of exceptional events affecting production - Limits - Production affected in a year other than the reference year - Exclusion - Choice by a Member State of 1983 as the reference year - Variation of reference quantities - Account taken of the situation of a category of producers whose production was previously affected by an exceptional event - Whether permissible
( Council Regulation No 857/84, Arts 2(2 ) and 3(3 ); Commission Regulation No 1371/84, Arts 2(1 ) and 3 )
The provisions of Article 3(3 ) of Regulation No 857/84 in conjunction with Article 3 of Regulation No 1371/84 do not apply to the situation of producers whose milk production was affected by an exceptional event in a year other than the reference year adopted by the Member State concerned . However, in the case of a Member State which has chosen 1983 as the reference year and has made use of the option of varying the percentage weighting for the determination of the reference quantities on the basis of the trend in deliveries by producers between 1981 and 1983, the provisions of Article 2(2 ) of Regulation No 857/84 in conjunction with Article 2(1 ) of Regulation No 1371/84 permit account to be taken for the purposes of such variation of the situation of the category of producers whose milk production was affected by an exceptional event in 1981 or 1982 .