CELEX: 31975R0120
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 120/75 of the Commission of 17 January 1975 making special provision to cover the transition from the 1974/75 to the 1975/76 milk year as regards the levying of accession compensatory amounts on butter in trade with the United Kingdom

18 . 1 . 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 13/21
                                REGULATION ( EEC) No 120/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 17 January 1975
                making special provision to cover the transition from the 1974/75 to the 1975/76
                milk year as regards the levying of accession compensatory amounts on butter
                                                in trade with the United Kingdom
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        produced in or exported to the United Kingdom after
COMMUNITIES,                                                          the beginning of the new milk year ; whereas such a
                                                                      measure is proved to be necessary now for butter and
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                can be extended to other products should the need
 Economic Community ;                                                 arise ;
 Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the acces­                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
sion of new Member States to the European Economic                    are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Community and to the European Atomic Energy                           ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
804/68 (2) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 662/74 (3 ), and in
particular Article 5a thereof ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                                                   Art idc 1
233/73 (4) of 31 January 1973 laying down general
rules for the system of compensatory amounts for                       1 . With regard to products falling within Common
milk and milk products, and in particular Article 6 ( 1 )             Customs Tariff heading No 04.03 exported from the
thereof ;
                                                                      United Kingdom after the beginning of the 1975/76
                                                                      milk year :
Whereas the alignment with effect from the start of
the 1975/76 marketing year of butter prices in the                    (a) the compensatory amounts fixed in Annex VII C
new Member States in pursuance of Article 52 (2) of                         to Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /74 will remain appli­
the ' Treaty of Accession (5 ) will lead to a modification                  cable in respect of exports to third countries ;
of the compensatory amounts laid down in Commis­
sion Regulation (EEC) No 71 0/74 (6) of 29 March                      (b) without prejudice to the compensatory amounts in
 1974 as amended by Annex VII C to Regulation                               force for the 1975/76 milk year, the United
(EEC) No 25 1 8 /74 (7) ;
                                                                            Kingdom shall charge on exports to other
                                                                            Member States an amount equal to the difference
Whereas in view of the marked reduction                   in the            between the compensatory amount fixed in Annex
compensatory amounts applicable to certain products                         VII C to Regulation ( EEC) No 2518/74 and that
in trade between the United Kingdom and the other                           applicable under the terms of the Regulation
Member States there is a risk of deflection of trade as                     fixing the accession compensatory amounts for the
a result of speculative transactions ;                                      1975/76 milk year.
Whereas in order to avoid such deflection it is advis­
able to provide that, for those products which are                    2. However, paragraph 1 shall not apply to
liable to speculation , the compensatory amounts                      products in respect of which proof is furnished that
currently in operation should continue to apply after
                                                                      they were, after the beginning of the 1975/76 milk
                                                                     year :
the beginning of the 1975/76 milk year in the case of
exports from the United Kingdom in respect of which                  (a) produced in the United Kingdom ,
it is not established that the products concerned were
                                                                            or
(■) OJ No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972 , p. .S.
\2) OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13                                 (b) exported to the United Kingdom within the
(3 ) OJ   No L 85, 29 . 3 . 1974 , p. 51 .                                  meaning of Article 4 of Commission Regulation
(4 ) OJ   No L 28 , 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 37 .
(5)  OJ   No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                                   ( EEC ) No 269/73 (s) of 31 January 1973 laying
(6)  OJ   No L 88 , 1 . 4. 1974, p. 1 .
(7)  OJ   No L 270, 5. 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                             ( s ) OJ No L W , 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 73 .
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     down detailed rules for the application of the                                         Article 2
     system of accession compensatory amounts as last
     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 343 / 74 (').                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
3 . The United Kingdom shall take the necessary                    following its publication in the Official Journal of
measures with regard to the documents to be                        the European Communities.
produced as evidence for the purposes for paragraph
2. Such measures shall include provision for the verifi­           It shall be applicable until the end of the sixth month
cation of such documents .                                         following the beginning of the 1 975/76 milk year.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 17 January 1975 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
('-) OJ No L 40 , 12 . 2 . 1974, p. 4 .