CELEX: 31976R0348
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 348/76 of 17 February 1976 on measures to be taken owing to the difficulties affecting potato supplies

No L 43/ 14                       Official Journal of the European Communities                              19 . 2. 76
                                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 348/76
                                               of 17 February 1976
               on measures to be taken owing to the difficulties affecting potato supplies
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                 subheading ex 07.01 A I and of potatoes falling within
COMMUNITIES,                                                subheading 07.01 A III of the Common Customs
                                                            Tariff. The amount of this tax shall be 25 units of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European       account per 100 kilogrammes.
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 103
and 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,           However, the Commission may amend this amount to
                                                            take account of changing prices on the Community
Whereas, owing to the very poor potato harvest in the        market and the world market and of subsidies granted
Community in 1975, that product is at present in            by non-member countries on imports of the products
short supply on the market ; whereas this situation is      described in the first subparagraph.
causing a very sharp increase in potato prices and
supply difficulties in some regions of the Community
and may cause an increase in the cost of living ;            2. The Commission shall, after consulting the
                                                            Member States, adopt detailed rules for the application
Whereas this situation is aggravated by the export of        of this Article and may take any interim measures
potatoes to non-member countries, encouraged, in             necessary.
some non-member countries, by import subsidies ;
whereas it is necessary, in order to ensure that the
Community is supplied, that a tax should be imposed          3 . This Article is without prejudice to the possi­
temporarily on exports of that product to non­               bility of Member States forbidding the exportation to
member countries ; whereas, moreover, provision              non-member countries of the products referred to in
should be made for the possibility of adjusting the          paragraph 1 .
amount of this tax to take account of changing prices
on the Community market and on the world market
and of any import subsidies granted by non-member
countries ;                                                                         Article 2
Whereas this Regulation shall not affect the measures
taken in accordance with Article 10 of Council Regula­
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
tion (EEC) No 2603/69 of 20 December 1969 esta­
                                                             publication in the Official Journal of the European
blishing common rules for exports ('),                       Communities.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                        Article 1                            It shall apply to operations in respect of which
                                                             customs export formalities have been completed from
 1 . A tax shall be levied on exports to non-member          the day following that of its entry into force and until
countries of non-certified seed potatoes falling within      30 June 1976.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 17 February 1976.
                                                                         For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                           J. HAMILIUS
(') OJ No L 324, 27. 12. 1969, p. 25.