CELEX: 31973R1361
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1361/73 of the Council of 15 May 1973 fixing the amount of aid for flax and hemp for the 1973/74 marketing year

28 . 5 . 73                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 141 /35
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1361/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 15 May 1973
                        fixing the amount of aid for flax and hemp for the 1973 /74 marketing year
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                       and seeds on the world market and of the price for
                                                                 other competing natural products;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
 European Economic Community, and in particular                  Whereas Article 95 of the Act lays down the criteria
 Article 43 thereof;                                             for fixing the amount of aid for flax in the new
                                                                Member States ; whereas application of these criteria
                                                                 entails fixing the said amount for the United
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    Kingdom and Denmark at a lower level than, and,
 1308/70 (*) of 29 June 1970 on the common                       for Ireland at a level equal to that of the aid valid for
 organization of the market in flax and hemp, as                 the Community as originally constituted ;
amended by the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of
 Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties,
hereinafter called the 'Act', and in particular Article 4
 (3 ) thereof;                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                        Sole Article
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                For the 1973 /74 marketing year, the aid referred to in
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                    Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308 /70 shall be :
Parliament;
                                                                 ( a) as regards flax,
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70
provides for the annual fixing of aid for flax and                    — 70 units of account per hectare for the United
hemp produced within the Community;                                       Kingdom,
                                                                      — 125 units        of account per      hectare   for
Whereas in accordance with Article 4 (2) of that                          Denmark,
Regulation , aid shall be fixed per hectare sown and
harvested so as to ensure a balance between the                       — 150 units of account per hectare for the other
required volume of production within the                                  Member States ;
Community and the potential outlets for that
production ; whereas, when that aid is fixed, account           ( b) as regards hemp, 125 units of account per hectare
must be taken of the price for flax and hemp fibres                   for all Member States .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 15 May 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                       A. LAVENS
(!) OJ No L 146, 4 . 7. 1970, p . 1 .
H OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14.