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C. The promotion of business and innovation centres in specified areas 
Activities would include the organization of technical seminars in areas of particular interest to 
Community regional policy where business and innovation centres are to be promoted. 
D. European Business and Innovation Centres Network — EBN 
Community financial support might be provided to the EBN in 1988 or 1989, should self-sufficiency 
not be attained, under present forecasts. s 
Financial support will be given in the form of grants to annual operating expenses, on the basis of a 
convention with the Commission and after reception of a full yearly report on past activities and 
progress. 
Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 on the common 
organization of the market in milk and milk products 
COM(87) 38 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 23 January 1987) 
(87/C 33/06) 
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 Par­
liament, 
Whereas experience has clearly shown that the 
application of formula B as specified in Article 5c of 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 ('), as last 
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1335/86 (2), is not a 
sufficient deterrent to purchasers responsible for large 
excess quantities; whereas an allocation of the quantities 
not used by the purchaser in proportion to the individual 
reference quantities of those producers responsible for 
his reference quantity's being exceeded will make the 
additional levy scheme more rigorous; whereas the rules 
on the operation of formula B should be adjusted 
accordingly, provision being made however for dero­
gations under certain circumstances; 
Whereas the market situation for milk and milk products 
is such that it must be possible for these measures to be 
applied from the beginning of the third additional levy 
period on condition that interested parties have been 
duly informed beforehand; 
0) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. 
(2) OJNoL 119, 8.5. 1986, p. 19. Whereas Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 
804/68 provided for the introduction of permanent 
intervention arrangements for butter and for skimmed-
milk powder; 
Whereas these arrangements no longer function as a 
mechanism for short-therm stabilization of the market 
during the period of heavy production but have come to 
provide a more attractive outlet for production than the 
normal market outlets; 
Whereas during the period when skimmed-milk 
production is low the utilization of milk protein can be 
secured by aid for the use of skimmed milk; whereas 
consequently the purchase of skimmed-milk powder by 
the intervention agencies should be restricted to the 
period 1 March to 31 August; 
Whereas during the period of imposition of the 
additional levy provided for in Article 5c of Regulation 
(EEC) No 804/68 the Commission should have the 
power to adjust the intervention arrangements for butter 
and for skimmed-milk powder by adopting other 
measures applicable throughout the Community; 
Whereas the Commission should have the power to 
adopt appropriate provisions should it happen that the 
measures adopted in this Regulation lead to under-
supply of dairies that are important suppliers to the 
market and to over-supply of dairies that have excessive 
recourse to intervention, 
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 is amended as follows: 
1. In Article 5c (1) the second indent under the heading 
'Formula B' shall read: 
'— Should the quantities delivered exceed the pur­
chaser's reference quantity he shall pass on the 
burden of the levy in the price paid to those 
producers who are responsible for the quantity's 
being exceeded, after he has allocated to them in 
proportion to their individual reference quantities 
the quantities available for redistribution. 
Priority in reallocating the quantities available for 
redistribution may however be given to producers 
meeting certain criteria to be established. 
The levy shall be charged on all quantities 
exceeding the individual reference quantities 
adjusted as indicated above.' 
2. Article 7 (1) shall read as follows: 
'1. Under conditions determined in accordance 
with paragraph 4 the intervention agency designated 
by each Member State shall purchase at the 
intervention price first quality skimmed-milk powder 
produced in the Community that is offered to it 
during the period 1 March to 31 August, if it reaches 
certain standards.' 3. The following Article 7a is added: 
'Article 7a 
1. During the period of application of the 
additional levy arrangements mentioned in Article 5c 
the intervention arrangements specified in Articles 6 
(1) and 7 (1) may be modified by the Commission, in 
accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 
30, by the adoption of measures designed to reduce 
the volume of intervention purchasing without 
affecting the stability of the market. 
These measures shall be adopted using criteria to be 
adopted by the Council, acting by a qualified majority 
on a Commission proposal, before 1 March 1987. 
2. Should implementation of the measures to 
reform the market in milk and milk products occasion 
disturbance in the balance of supplies to dairies the 
Commission shall adopt, in accordance with the 
procedure mentioned in Article 30, provisions 
designed to discourage excessive recourse to 
intervention.' 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European 
Communities. 
The provisions of point 1 of Article 1 shall apply from 1 
April 1987 but may however apply with effect from 1 
April 1986 in Member States where interested parties 
have received the necessary prior notification. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States.