CELEX: 31975R2802
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2802/75 of the Commission of 29 October 1975 derogating from Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 in respect of the minimum quantities of durum wheat that may be taken over by the intervention agency in Italy in the 1975/76 marketing year

30 . 10 . 75                              Official Journal of the European Communities                       No L 279/ 11
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2802/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 29 October 1975
                derogating from Regulation (EEC) No 1492/71 in respect of the minimum quan­
                tities of durum wheat that may be taken over by the intervention agency in Italy
                                                  in the 1975/76 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas in certain regions in Italy the crop is
COMMUNITIES,                                                         produced by small farmers for whom the minimum
                                                                     quantity fixed for acceptance by intervention agencies
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               would be difficult to attain ; whereas to enable such
Economic Community ;                                                 farmers to carry out structural improvements or to act
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                         jointly the minimum quantity for this marketing year
67/ EEC ( 1 ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                should exceptionally be reduced to 1 5 metric tons ;
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 665/75 (2), and in particular Article 7              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
(5) thereof ;                                                        are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Cereals,
Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1492/71 (3) of 13 July 1971 fixing the procedure
and conditions for the taking over of cereals by inter­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
vention agencies, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1 422/72 (4), fixed the minimum quantity of
durum wheat that could be so taken over at 40 metric                                        Article 1
tons ;
Whereas ever since the introduction of the common
                                                                     By way of derogation from Article 1 of Regulation
                                                                     (EEC) No 1492/71 , homogeneous lots of not less than
organization of the market in cereals there has been a               15 metric tons of durum wheat harvested in         the
shortfall in Community production of durum wheat ;                   Community may be presented to the intervention
whereas, therefore, intervention operations have been                agency in Italy during the 1975/76 marketing year.
very few in previous marketing years ; whereas there
has been a considerable increase in production in the
present marketing year, particularly in Italy ; whereas                                     Article 2
the arrival on the market of this production has
depressed prices to such an extent that quantities of               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
durum wheat are likely to be presented for interven­                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
tion ;                                                               the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 29 October 1975 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No   117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
0    OJ No   L 72, 20 . 3. 1975, p. 14.
(J ) OJ No   L 157, 14. 7. 1971 , p. 18 .
(4)  OJ No   L 151 , 5 . 7. 1972, p. 15 .