CELEX: 31976R0124
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-21
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 124/76 of 21 January 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 540/75 laying down additional measures to be taken in agriculture following the fixing, with effect from 3 March 1975, of new representative rates for the currencies of certain Member States

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                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 124/76
                                                        of 21 January 1976
             amending Regulation (EEC) No 540/75 laying down additional measures to be
              taken in agriculture following the fixing, with effect from 3 March 1975 , of new
                           representative rates for the currencies of certain Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       not connected with , the fixing of prices, these
COMMUNITIES,                                                         measures consist of an increase of 2-27 % ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas on 28 April 1975 the Council adopted Direc­
Economic Community,                                                  tive 75/268/EEC on mountain and hill farming and
                                                                     farming in less-favoured areas (5), taking into account
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         various amendments to an earlier text adopted by the
475/75 of 27 February 1975 on the exchange rates to                  Council on 21 January 1974 ;
be applied in agriculture ('), as last amended by Regu­              Whereas the amounts referred to in Articles 7 and 10
lation (EEC) No 2638/75 (2), and in particular Article
4 thereof,                                                           of the said Directive were fixed by the Council in the
                                                                     text adopted on 21 January 1974 ;
Whereas that Regulation introduced, in respect of                    Whereas, therefore, they should be adjusted to take
certain Member States, representative rates to be used               account of the 2-27 % increase specified for amounts
where transactions to be carried out in pursuance of                 fixed in units of account which are not connected
instruments relating to the common agricultural                      with the fixing of prices ;
policy, or specific rules laid down under Article 235 of
the Treaty, require national currencies to be expressed              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
in another currency or in units of account ;                         are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
                                                                     Committee on Agricultural Structures,
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 540/75 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2717/75 (4), the
Commission laid down the additional measures to be
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
taken in agriculture following the fixing, with effect
from 3 March 1975, of new representative rates for the
currencies of certain Member States ;                                                         Article 1
                                                                      4
Whereas, as regards the amounts fixed in units of                    The following is hereby added to Annex II to Regula­
account for the common agricultural policy which are                 tion (EEC) No 540/75 :
                  'C. Amounts specified in the Council
                         Directive of 28 April 1975 on moun­
                         tain and hill farming and farming in
                         less favoured areas                       Existing amount             To be replaced by
                         Article 7 ( 1 )                           15      u.a./ABU     or
                                                                   hectare                         15-50    u.a .
                         Article 7 ( 1 ) (a)                       50 u.a./ABU                     51       u.a .
                                                                   50    u.a./ha   of area
                                                                   under forage                     51      u.a .
                         Article 7 ( 1 ) (b)                       50 u.a./ ha                     51       u.a .
                         Article 10 (2)                            10 000       u.a .  per
                                                                   holding                         10 227 u.a .
(•) OJ  No L  52, 28 . 2. 1975, p. 28 .
(2) OJ  No L 269, 18 . 10 . 1975, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No L  57, 3 . 3 . 1975, p. 29 .
 4) OJ  No L  276, 27. 10 . 1975, p. 3 .                             (5) OJ No L 128 , 19 . 5. 1975, p. 1 .
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                                                     Article 2
            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official
            Journal of the European Communities.
            It shall apply with effect from 3 March 1975.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 21 January 1976.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                       P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                  Member of the Commission