CELEX: 31978R1047
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1047/78 of 19 May 1978 laying down detailed rules of application for the granting of a premium for the birth of calves for a further period of 12 months

22 . 5 . 78                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 134/23
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1047/78
                                                           of 19 May 1978
                laying down detailed rules of application for the granting of a premium for the
                                      birth of calves for a further period of 12 months
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      animal to which the premium relates ; whereas, in
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        order to calculate the amount of the premium in
                                                                     national currency, the conversion rate valid on the day
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              on which the animal reaches the age of six months
  Economic Community,                                                should therefore be applied ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 997/78 of 12 May 1978 granting a premium for the                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 birth of calves during the 1978 /79 marketing year ('),             ment Committee for Beef and Veal ,
 and in particular Article 2 thereof,
 Whereas, under Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
 997/78 , Member States which apply the system of                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 premiums for the birth of calves referred to in Article
  1 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 871 / 77 of 26 April
  1977 granting a premium for the birth of calves                                            Article 1
 during the 1977/78 marketing year (2 ), are to continue
 to grant a premium for every calf born on their terri­               1 . The premium referred to in Article 1 of Regula­
 tory during a further period of 12 months and still                 tion (EEC) No 997/78 shall be granted at the request
 alive six months after its birth ; whereas the calves               of the producer, provided it is proved to the satisfac­
 entitled to this premium should be identified to avoid              tion of the competent authority that the calf was born
 fraud ;                                                             in the Member State concerned during the 12-month
                                                                     period referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) thereof, that it has
 Whereas, under Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation                  been identified and that it is still alive six months
 ( EEC) No 1 134/ 68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules               later .
 for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No
 653 / 68 on conditions for alterations to the value of              2.      The full amount of this premium of 35 units of
 the unit of account used for the common agricultural                account shall be paid in a single payment not later
 policy (3 ), for transactions carried out under the                 than 60 days after the date of the approval of the appli­
 common agricultural policy the sums owed by a                       cation by the competent authority.
 Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in
 national currency and representing amounts fixed in                 3.      The start of the 12-month period may vary
 units of account, are to be paid on the basis of the rela­          between 3 March and 4 April 1978 from one adminis­
 tionship between the unit of account and the national               trative region of the Member State concerned to
                                                                     another .
 currency which obtained at the time when the transac­
 tion or part transaction was carried out ;
                                                                     4. The event, within the meaning of Article 6 of
Whereas, under Article 6 of the abovementioned Regu­                 Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68 , which gives entitle­
 lation , the time when a transaction is carried out is              ment to the premium referred to in paragraph 1 shall
 considered as being the date on which occurs the                    be deemed to occur on the day on which the animal
 event, as defined by Community rules, or in the                     reaches the age of six months.
 absence of and pending the adoption of such rules, by
 the rules of the Member States concerned , in which                                         Article 2
 the amount involved in the transaction becomes due
 and payable ;                                                       Member States granting the said premium shall take
                                                                     all necessary measures to ensure that the provisions of
Whereas Regulation ( EEC) No 997/ 78 provides for                    this Regulation are complied with .
 the grant of a premium for the birth of calves for a
 further period of 12 months where the calves are still
                                                                                             Article 3
alive six months after their birth ; whereas the event
in which the premium becomes due and payable to
the producer occurs six months after the birth of the                1.      Member States granting the said premium shall
                                                                     notify the Commission of all measures taken to imple­
(') 0 | No L 130 , IK . 5 . 1978 , p . 4 .
                                                                     ment the premium arrangements not later than 10
(: ) O") No L 106, 29 . 4 . 1977, p . 16.                            days after the date on which such measures come into
(') OJ No L 188 , 1 . X. 1968 , p . 1 .                              effect and in particular those relating to the identifica­
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tion of the calves by means of an indelible mark or                               Article 4
any other equivalent method.
2. Member States granting the said premium shall           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
notify the Commission of the number of animals             publication in the Official Journal of the European
becoming entitled to the premium during each               Communities. It shall apply from the day following
month not later than one month after the end of the        that on which the application of the system laid down
relevant month .                                           in Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC) No 871 /77 ends .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 19 May 1978 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President