CELEX: 31976R1966
Language: en
Date: 1976-08-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1966/76 of 6 August 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 677/76 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system for compulsory purchase of skimmed-milk powder provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 563/76

7. 8 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 215/23
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1966/76
                                                        of 6 August 1976
               amending Regulation (EEC) No 677/76 laying down detailed rules for the applica­
               tion of the system for compulsory purchase of skimmed-milk powder provided
                                              for in Regulation (EEC) No 563/76
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                              Article 3
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Article 1 0 (4) is amended to read as follows :
Economic Community,
                                                                       '4.    The security shall be forfeit where the party
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           concerned :
563/76 of 15 March 1976 on the compulsory purchase
of skimmed-milk powder held by intervention agen­                      (a) has not renounced his right to put into free
cies for use in feedingstuffs (J ), and in particular                      circulation, or
Article 9 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                       (b) except in the case of force majeure, has not
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 677/76 of                           furnished proof of one of the matters referred
26 March 1976 laying down detailed rules for the                           to in paragraph 1 (b), (c), (f) and (g) by 1 March
application of the system for compulsory purchase of                        1977, one of those referred to in paragraph ( 1 )
skimmed-milk powder provided for in Regulation                             (d) and (e) by 30 April 1977.'
(EEC) No 563/76 (2), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1 925/76 (3), laid down the period of validity
of the protein certificate and also the period for the
                                                                                            Article 4
production of the proof referred to in Article 10
permitting release of the security ;
                                                                   Article 1 2 is amended to read as follows :
Whereas the reduction of these periods could facilitate
the orderly achievement of the objectives of the                        Article 12
system introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 563/76
without causing any practical difficulties ;                           Except in the case of force majeure, where the
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                   "protein certificate" is not submitted to the issuing
are in accordance with the opinions of all the relevant                agency by 1 March 1977, the quantities of
management committees,                                                 products for which the certificate was issued shall
                                                                       be regarded as having been put into free circula­
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                          tion, except for any quantities in respect of which
                                                                       the holder of the certificate submits one or more
                           Article 1                                   extracts therefrom for which, or for part of which,
                                                                       no attribution has been made .'
Regulation (EEC) No 677/76 is amended as shown in
the following Articles.
                           Article 2                                                        Article 5
The following subparagraph is added to Article 1 (2) :
     ' However, certificates issued pursuant to an applica­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
     tion submitted after 8 August 1976 shall be valid             following its publication in the Official Journal of
     for only one month from their date of issue .'                 the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 6 August 1976 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
C ) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 18 .
(2) OJ No L 81 , 27 . 3 . 1976, p . 23 .
(3) OJ No L 210 , 4 . 8 . 1976, p . 16 .