CELEX: 31974R1613
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1613/74 of the Commission of 26 June 1974 suspending temporarily the issue of import licences for beef and veal

27. 6 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 170/49
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1613/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 26 June 1974
                   suspending temporarily the issue of import licences for beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   be inadequate ; whereas additional measures should be
COMMUNITIES,                                                     taken as a contribution towards improving the situa­
                                                                 tion ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                            Whereas, pending the introduction of such new
                                                                 measures, the issue of import licences for the products
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     of the sector in question, which can be imported over
805/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­               a. very short period should be suspended for a short
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended             period,
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 87/73 (2), and in particular
Article 21 (2) thereof ; <
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas prices for beef and veal on the representative
markets of the Community are currently lower than                                         Article 1
the intervention price ; whereas the intervention
machinery does not enable this situation to be                   The issue of import licences with a validity which is
remedied at short notice ;                                       stated in paragraph 2 subparagraph (c) of Article 38 of
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70, amended by Regula­
Whereas if imports of beef and veal continue at their            tion (EEC) No 1098/74, is hereby suspended until 12
present rate they will worsen considerably the already           July 1974. This provision shall apply to applications
disturbed situation on the Community market ;                    in respect of which the 'day on which the licence or
whereas the quantities to be imported in the near                certificate is applied for' within the meaning of
future would make it impossible to re-establish any              Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 373/70 (4), as last
sort of balance on the market and to return to a situa­
                                                                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 571 /73 (5), is later
tion in which guaranteed prices, the main purpose of             than 26 June 1974.
the intervention system, are possible ; whereas the
special measures introduced by Commission Regula­                                          Article 2
tion (EEC) No 1084/74 (3) of 30 April 1974 linking
the importation of frozen beef and veal to the sale of           This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 June
meat held by the intervention agencies have proved to             1974 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 26 June 1974.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(i) OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.
(*) OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 23.                             (4) OJ No L 158 , 20 . 7. 1970, p. 1 .
(J) OJ No L 121 , 3 . 5. 1974, p. 32.                             5) OJ No L 56, 1 . 3 . 1973, p. 3 .