CELEX: 51977PC0017
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-04
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) fixing for the 1977/1978 milk year the guideline figure for the fat content of standardized whole milk imported into Ireland and the United Kingdom (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                   COM(77 ) 17 final
                                                   Brussels . 4 February 1977
                               Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
         fixing for the 1977/1978 milk year the guideline figure for the
         fat content of standardized whole milk imported into Ireland and
                           the United Kingdom
                  ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
COM(77 ) 17 final
 ---pagebreak---                         EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Pursuant to Regulation (EEC ) No 1411/ 71 1 9 as amended by Regulation (EEC )
No 566/76 the Member States must , as of 1 October 1976 , have applied
to whole milk for human consumption either the formula of non-standardized
whole milk whose fat content has not been altered since the milking stage
 (Ireland and the United Kingdom ) or the formula of standardized whole milk
with a minimum fat content of 3.5$ (the other Member States^ except for Italy ,
 which uses the authorisation provided for in Article 6(3 ) of the said Regulation ).
Pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC ) No 1411/71 , Ireland and the
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United Kingdom must , however , pgrmit the marketing on their territories
of standardized whole milk foming from another Member State if the fat
content of such milk is not less than a percentage to be fixed for each
milk year and corresponds to the weighted average fat content of the whole
milk produced and marketed in the Member State in question during the
previous year ( guideline figure ).
According to the figure supplied to the Commission by the two Member
States concerned , the abovementioned weighted average is 3.52$ for Ireland
and 3.77$ for the United Kingdom .
It is therefore proposed that the Council should , pursuant to Article 3(7 )
of Regulation (EEC ) No 1411/71 * fix those figures as guideline figures ,
for the milk year 1977/78.
  QJ No L 148 , 3 . 7.1971 , p. 4
20J No L 67, 15 . 3.1976, p.23
 ---pagebreak---                                      , proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATE Olí (EEC )
   fixing for the 1977/ 1978 milk year the guideline figure for the
   fat content of standardized whole milk imported into Ireland and
                               the Uiiited Kingdom
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES »
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 1411/ 71 of 29 June 1971 laying
down additional rules on the common organization of the market in milk and
milk products for products falling within tariff heading No 04.01 , as last
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amended "by Regulation (EEC ) No 566/76 , and in particular Article 3(6)(b )
thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas , pursuant to Article 3(5 ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 1411 / 71 , Ireland
and the United Kingdom apply within their territories the formula of
non-standardized whole milk within the meaning of the second indent of
Article 3 ( 1 ) ("b ) of that Regulation ;
Whereas , pursuant to Article 3 ( 6) and ( 7 )» a guideline
figure must "be fixed for the milk year 1977/ 78 for the fat content of
standardized whole milk coming from another Member State for marketing
within the territory of the two abovementioned Member States ;      whereas
this guideline figure must be the weighted average fat content of the whole
milk produced and marketed in the importing Member State during the
previous year ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                 ./.
 QJ No L 148 ,       3 . 7.1971 , p. 4
20J No L 67 , 15 . 3.1976, p. 23
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                               Sole Article
For the 1977/ 78 milk year , the guideline figure referred to in Article
3(6)(b ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 1411/71 shall be 3.52$ for Ireland and
3.77$ for the United Kingdom ,
This Regulation shall he binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
                                      Done at Brussels, 4 February 1977 ..
                                      For the Council