CELEX: 31973R2248
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-16
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2248/73 of the Commission of 16 August 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 on the disposal of butter at a reduced price to certain Community processing undertakings

No L 230/ 14                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                18 . 8 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2248/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 16 August 1973
               amending Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 on the disposal of butter at a reduced
                                  price to certain Community processing undertakings
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                           Article 1
Economic Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         In Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 the
804/68 (J) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                   words 'before 1 May 1973' are replaced by the words
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last                'before 1 July 1973'.
amended by the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of
Accession and Adjustments ' to the Treaties, and in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;                                                               Article 2
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
974/71 (3) of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of                     Subparagraph (a) of Article 20 of Regulation (EEC) No
conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture                        1259/72 is replaced by the following :
following the temporary widening of the margins of                         '(a) The compensatory amounts fixed pursuant to
fluctuation    for   the    currencies     of  certain  Member
                                                                                Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 shall be multi­
States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                                  plied by the coefficient 0·3 ; however, in the
 1225/73 (4), and in particular Article 6 thereof ;                             case of the United Kingdom the coefficient
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No                                          shall be 0·6. The Commission may, if neces­
 1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of butter                         sary, alter these coefficients.'
at a reduced price to certain Community processing
undertakings, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 1910/73 (6), provides that, in order to take account                                         Article 3
of the value of the products concerned, any monetary
 compensatory amounts applicable in respect of tran­                  In footnote 4 to Annex V to Commission Regulation
 sactions in butter sold under that Regulation are to be              (EEC) No 1469/73 (7) of 30 May 1973 fixing the mone­
 multiplied by a coefficient of 0·3 ; whereas in the case             tary amounts and certain rates for their application, as
 of the United Kingdom that coefficient must be                       last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2197/73 (8), the
 altered, in order to take account of the fact that the               sentence     ' However,    in  the   case  of the   United
 intervention price for butter applicable in that country             Kingdom the coefficient shall be 0·6' shall be added
 differs substantially from that applicable in the other              to the indent referring to Regulation (EEC) No
 Member States ;                                                       1259 /72.
 Whereas Article 1 of the Regulation in question
 provides that the butter offered for sale must have                                             Article 4
 been taken into storage before 1 May 1973 ; whereas,
 in view of the build-up of Community butter stocks,                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
 this provision should be extended to cover butter                    publication in the Official Journal of the European
 taken into stock before 1 July 1973 ;                                 Communites.
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                     It may where those concerned so request be applied
 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;                          with effect from 4 June 1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 16 August 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                 François-Xavier ORTOLI
  (»)  OJ No L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
  (2)  OJ No L  73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
  (3 ) OJ No L  106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
  (<)  OJ No L  125, 11 . 5. 1973, p. 49.
  (*)  OJ No L  139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18.                               (7) OJ No L 147, 4. 6. 1973, p. 17.
  (*) OJ No L 196, 17. 7. 1973, p. 10 .                                (8) OJ No L 223 , 11 . 8 . 1973, p. 21 .