CELEX: 31976R0708
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 708/76 of 25 March 1976 on the granting of supplementary aid in the silkworm sector for the 1976/77 marketing year

31 . 3 . 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 84/3
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 708/76
                                                     of 25 March 1976
               on the granting of supplementary aid in the silkworm sector for the 1976/77
                                                      marketing year
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     shall grant supplementary aid for the silkworms reared
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    on its territory.
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           2.     The aid shall only be granted :
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
 thereof,                                                        (a) for boxes containing at least 20 000 silkworm eggs
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  suitable for hatching and which have produced a
                                                                     minimum number of cocoons which satisfy condi­
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                tions to be laid down, and
 ment ('),                                                       (b) if the rearer, having successfully reared the silk­
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                    worms, delivers to his group all or some of the
 Social Committee (2),                                               cocoons produced.
Whereas in recent months imports of silk from non­                   Where the producer has delivered to his group a
 member countries at low prices have had unfavourable                part only of the cocoons produced, the aid shall be
 effects on the sales of the products of silkworm                    calculated on a pro rata basis.
 rearing in the Community ; whereas these difficulties
 have been aggravated by an inadequate supply organi­            3 . The Member States shall be authorized to grant
 zation on the Community market ;                                supplementary aid only to those rearers who have
Whereas, to stabilize this market, a better organization        been supplied with boxes of eggs by an approved
of supplies should be encouraged by granting, during            body.
the 1976/77 marketing year, supplementary aid to
 rearers who are members of a silkworm producer                                          Article 4
group recognized in accordance with Regulation
(EEC) No 707/76 (3) ; whereas, to that end, the amount          The producer Member States shall introduce adminis­
of such aid should be related to the volume of produc­          trative checks to ensure that the product in respect of
tion marketed by the groups in question ;                       which aid has been applied for satisfies the necessary
                                                                conditions .
Whereas expenditure incurred by the Member States
as a result of the obligations arising from the imple­
mentation of this Regulation should be financed by                                       Article 5
the Community in accordance with the provisions
relating to the financing of the common agricultural            Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation
policy,                                                         shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
                                                                laid down in Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC)
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                   No 1308/70 of 29 June 1970 on the common organi­
                                                                zation of the market in flax and hemp (4), as amended
                         Article 1                              by the Act concerning the conditions of accession and
For the 1976/77 marketing year, supplementary aid               the adjustments to the Treaties (5).
shall be granted to silkworm rearers who are members
of a Community silkworm producer group which is                                         Article 6
recognized in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No
707/76 .                                                        The supplementary aid referred to in Article 1 shall
                                                                be considered, for the purposes of the financing of the
                         Article 2                              common agricultural policy, as part of the interven­
The amount of the aid shall be 15 units of account for          tion measures designed to stabilize agricultural
                                                                markets .
each box of silkworm eggs used.
                         Article 3                                                      Article 7
1 . On application by each producer group on
behalf of all its members, each producer Member State           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
                                                                1976 .
(0 OJ No C 53, 8 . 3 . 1976, p. 24.
(2) OJ No C 50, 4. 3 . 1976, p. 19 .                            (4) OJ No L 146, 4. 7. 1970, p. 1 .
(3) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                        (5 OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 25 March 1976.
                                                                   For the Council
                                                                     The President
                                                                       M. MART