CELEX: 31976R0337
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 337/76 of 17 February 1976 temporarily including butteroil in the list of processed products covered by the system of advance payment of refunds

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                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 337/76
                                                     of 17 February 1976
              temporarily including butteroil in the list of processed products covered by the
                                          system of advance payment of refunds
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3352/75
COMMUNITIES,                                                      of 23 December 1975 prohibiting the use of inward
                                                                  processing arrangements in respect of butter (5),
                                                                  permits the import of butter under such arrangements
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             until 16 February 1976 ; whereas the time limit for
Economic Community,                                               processing this product is in practice six months ;
                                                                  Whereas when fixing the period during which Article
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      2 of Regulation (EEC) No 441 /69 may be used for
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                 processing butter into butteroil, account should be
of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last              taken of the period during which the products may
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2),                        remain under the system specified in the said Article
                                                                  2;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
441 /69 of 4 March 1969 laying down additional                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
general rules for granting export refunds on products             ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
subject to a single price system, exported unprocessed
or in the form of certain goods not covered by Annex
 II to the Treaty (3), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1 181 /72 (4), and in particular the second
subparagraph of Article 2(3) thereof,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the list set out in Annex I to Regulation
(EEC) No 441 /69 concerns processed products or
goods derived from the processing or manufacture of                                       Article 1
 the basic products covered by the system of advance
 payment of refunds set up by that Regulation ;
whereas the second subparagraph of Article 2 (3)                   In Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 441 /69, the
 thereof empowers the Commission to review and                     following heading shall be inserted after the one
 amend as necessary this list in line with the criteria            relating to CCT heading No 04.02 :
 fixed in paragraph 2 of the said Article ;
                                                                         CCT
                                                                        heading                Description of goods
                                                                          No
Whereas exports of butteroil manufactured under
 inward processing arrangements during the previous                ex 04.03        Butter of a fat content, by weight,
year have been in a proportion greatly exceeding                                   exceeding 99-5 %
 10 % of the total Community exports of the said
 product ;
 Whereas the export of Community butteroil has                                            Article 2
 almost stopped because of the difficulties of disposing
 of butteroil on the world market, whereas it is neces­
 sary to put manufacturers of Community butter into                This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh
 butteroil in the same position as manufacturers using             day following its publication in the Official Journal
 the inward processing arrangements ;                               of the European Communities.
(>) OJ  No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13 .
(2) OJ  No  L 74, 22. 3. 1975, p. 1 .                              This Regulation shall expire on 31 March 1976.
(J) OJ  No  L 59, 10 . 3 . 1969, p. 1 .
(«) OJ  No  L 130, 7. 6. 1972, p. 15.                              (5) OJ No L 330, 24. 12. 1975, p. 28 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 17 February 1976.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P.J. LARDIN^IS
                                                              Member of the Commission