CELEX: 31975R1477
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1477/75 of the Commission of 9 June 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 289/71 laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid for pigmeat

No L 149 / 6                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             10 . 6. 75
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1477/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 9 June 1975
               amending Regulation ( EEC) No 289/71 laying down detailed rules for granting
                                                 private storage aid for pigmeat
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      ered to be the date on which occurs the event, as
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       defined by Community rules or, in the absence of and
                                                                     pending adoption : of such rules, by the rules of the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Member State concerned, in which            the amount
 Economic Community ;                                               involved in the transaction becomes due and payable ;
                                                                    Whereas in the pigmeat sector the amount of private
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 121 /
                                                                    storage aid in national currency should be calculated
 67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                 using the exchange rate ruling at the time when the
 tion of the market in pigmeat, as last amended by                  private storage contract is concluded ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 861 /74 (2), and in particular
Article 5 (4), Article 6 and Article 7 (2) thereof ;
                                                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Whereas Article 3 (2) (a) of Commission Regulation                  ment Committee for Pigmeat,
(EEC) No 289/71 (3) of 10 February 1971 laying down
detailed rules for granting private storage aid for
 pigmeat, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 2600/74 (4), provides that the storer must take the
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
agreed quantity of the product into store within the
time limits laid down and store it for the stipulated
period ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas the object of private storage aid is to ease
pressure on the market by removing from the market                  Article 3 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 289/71 is
for a certain period surplus quantities of the product ;            amended to read as follows :
whereas an effective reduction of pressure on the
market can only be achieved, however, if the storer                     '(a) at his own risk and expense to take the agreed
keeps the full quantity of ascertained items of the                           quantity of the product into store within the
product for the whole of the storage period, as agreed                        time limits laid down and to store it for the
in the contract ;                                                             stipulated period, and not during that period
                                                                              to alter the stored products in any way or to
Whereas Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No                          exchange them for other products,'
 1 134/68 (5) of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the
implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on
conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of                                        Article 2
account used for the common agricultural policy
provides that for transactions carried out pursuant to              Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 289/71 is amended
provisions on the common agricultural policy, the                   to read as follows :
sums owed by a Member State or a duly authorized
body, expressed in national currency and representing                   'Article 5
amounts fixed in units of account, are to be paid on
the basis of the relationship between the unit of
account and the national currency which obtained at                      1 . The amount of aid shall be fixed per unit of
the time when the transaction or part transaction was                   weight and shall relate :
carried out ;
                                                                        — in the case of frozen products, to their weight,
                                                                             exclusive of packing, as ascertained on entry
Whereas Article 6 of that Regulation provides that the                       into store and before freezing ;
time when a transaction is carried out is to be consid­
                                                                        — in the case of dried or dried and smoked hams,
(>)  OJ No  117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2283/67.                                  to the weight of the fresh products as ascer­
(2)  OJ No  L 197, 19. 7. 1974, p. 3.                                        tained before drying or drying and smoking ;
(3)  OJ No  L 35, 12. 2. 1971 , p. 7.
(4)  OJ No  L 277, 12. 10. 1974, p. 34.                                 — in the case of preserved products, to the net
(5 ) OJ No  L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .                                    weight.
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     2. Without prejudice to the other obligations of                4. For the purposes of Article 6 of Regulation
     the storer, aid may be claimed only if the obliga­              (EEC) No 1134/68 the event in which private
     tions set out in Article 3 (2) (a) are fulfilled in their       storage aid for pigmeat becomes due and payable
     entirety.                                                       shall be considered to occur on the day when the
                                                                     contract is concluded .'
     3. The aid shall be paid as soon as it has been
     ascertained that the obligations of the contract                                   Article 3
     have been fulfilled. After storage has been effected
     in accordance with the contract the intervention           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
     agency shall pay, on request, an advance in respect         following its publication in the Official Journal of
     of aid, equal to 90 % of the deposit lodged .               the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 9 June 1975.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS '
                                                                       Member of the Commission
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