CELEX: 51978PC0482
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Date: 1978-09-22
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the granting of additional aid for the consumption of butter in the United Kingdom (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                 Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
      on -the granting of additional aid for the consumption of "butter
                              in the United Kingdom
                  (submitted to the Council by the Commission)
C0M(78) 482 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                 EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 I.      At its meeting on 12-16 May 1978 the Council approved the Commission 's
         proposal to grant an additional amount of 50 million u.a. to finance
         supplementary measures to encourage the consumption of "butter in the ,
         Community during the 1978/79 milk year.
         At the same time the Council noted the Commission 's intentions to use
         this amount to offer two specif io alternatives to Member States . The
        "butter to be sold comes from intervention stocks or has "been covered
        "by a private storage contract .
II.     The measures in question were implemented "by Commission Regulation ( EEC )
            1901/78 of 4 August 1978 on the sale of "butter at a reduced price
        during the 1978/79 milk year for direct consumption in the Community^
        This Regulation contains special arrangements for Italy in accordance
        with Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1764/78 of 25 July 1978 on the granting
        of aid for the consumption of butter in Italy^ 2 \ The United Kingdom .
        was excluded from the application of . Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1901/78 so as
        not to aggravate the situation on the market in butter in that Member
        State by placing additional' quantities of intervention butter on the
        market . The Commission reserved the right to seek another formula to
        enable 'United Kingdom consumers to benefit from a comparable reduction
        in the price of butter .
III.    This proposal for, a Council Regulation provides this formula on the
        basis of Article 12 ( 2 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 804/68 , in the form of
        supplementary aid for a specific quantity of butter of Community origin,
 IV.    In view of the faot that the expenditure on this measure is included
        in the 50 million u.a. referred to in point I , this proposal does not
        involve any additonal expenditure .              ■  *
 ( 1 ) OJ No L 216 , 5V 8.1978 , p. 43
 ( 2 ) OJ No L 204 , 28 . 7.1978 , p. 10
 ---pagebreak---                                   proposal for
                 Council Regulation ( EEC!)
 on "the granting of additional aid for the consumption of butter in the
United Kingdom
THE COUNCIL OP EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 804/68 of 27 June I968 on
the common organization of the market in milk and milk products^, as
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 last amended "by Regulation (EEC ) NO 1761/78 ^ ; , and in particular Article
12 ( 2 ) thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas large quantities of butter are available on the market and it
is therefore advisable to increase the consumption of "butter "by all
appropriate means ;
Whereas the reduction of final consumer prices is an efficient means of
attaining this objective ; vrh ereas , to this end , Commission Regulation
(EEC ) NO 1901/78 of 4 August 1978 on the sale of butter at a reduced price
during the 1978/79 milk year for direct consumption in the Community1" ,
was adopted ; whereas this measure was adapted to the special situation
in Italy by Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1764/78 of 25 July 1978 on "the
granting of aid for the consumption of butter in Italy^ ^ ;
Whereas on the butter market in the United Kingdom there are large stocks
of imported butter which have a depressive effect on prices ; whereas the
market price is below the intervention price ; whereas placing intervention
butter on this market might aggravate the situation' ; whereas Regulation
(EEC ) No 1901/78 does not therefore apply to the United Kingdom ; whereas
a different solution should be found to enable consumers in the United
Kingdom to benefit from a supplementary reduction in the price of butter ;
( 1 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6,1968 , p. 13
( 2 ) OJ No L 204 , 28 . 7.1978 , p. 6
( 3 ) OJ No L 216 , 4. 8.1978 , p. 43
( 4 ) OJ No L 204 , 28 . 7.1978 , p. 10
 ---pagebreak---   Whereas , to this end , it seems, appropriate to provide ; in respect of the
  corresponding quantity of butter of Community origin on the United Kingdom
  market , an aid in addition to that applied in accordance with Council
  Regulation (EEC ) No 880/77 of 26 April 1977 , on the granting of a consumer
  subsidy for butter , as last amended by Regulation (EEC) NO 1040/78^ ;
 whereas this additional aid is financed entirely by the Community in '            1
  accordance with Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC ) NO 729/70 of 21 April
  1970 on the financing of the common agricultural policy          as last amended
 by Regulation (EEC) No 2788/72^ ;
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION s
                                          Article 1
 1 » The United Kingdom shall grant an aid of 20 units of account per 100
     kilogrammes in respeot of a maximum quantity of 51*025 tonnes of butter
      of Community origin sold for direct consumption from 1 November 1978 .
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 2 « This aid shall "be added to that which the United Kingdom grants in
     accordance with Regulation (EEC ) NO 880/77 . Article 2 of that Regulation
     shall apply to the granting of aid in accordance with this Regulation.
 3 . The United Kingdom shall take appropriate measures to ensure the
     equitable distribution of the quantity of butter referred to in paragraph
     1 , in pari; icular taking into account the quantity of butter normally sold
     by the interested parties for direct consumption in the United Kingdom .
                                         Article 2
                                                      / ' .
 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
 publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
          applicable in all Member States .                        •      •    • /
 Brussels                                           -            For 1:116 Council
(5)  OJ No L 106,    29 . 4.1977,   p. 31
(6)  OJ No L 134 1   22 . 5.1978 ,  p.  7
(7 )  OJ No L 94 .    28 . 4.1970 , p. 13
(8)  OJ No L 295 >    30.12.1972 ,  p.  1