CELEX: 31974D0638
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 17 December 1974 authorizing the Kingdom of the Netherlands, following the rise of the central rate for the Dutch guilder, to grant temporary aid in respect of agricultural products

No L 341 / 54                        Official Journal of the European Communities                             20 . 12 . 74
                                                 COUNCIL DECISION
                                                  of 17 December 1974
             authorizing the Kingdom of the Netherlands, following the rise of the central
             rate for the Dutch guilder, to grant temporary aid in respect of agricultural
                                                         products
                                                       (74/638/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                         Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42               1.   By continuation of the authorization laid down
and 43 thereof ;                                                in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3141 /73, the
                                                                Kingdom of the Netherlands is hereby authorized to
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;             grant an aid to agricultural producers.
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­            2. The aid referred to in paragraph 1 may not, in
ment ;                                                          respect of any given product sector, exceed 2 % of the
Whereas the rise of the central rate for the Dutch              value of the relevant products marketed by producers
guilder on 17 September 1973 has led, pursuant to the           during the period 1 May 1974 to 30 April 1975.
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No                      3 . The aid referred to in paragraph 1 may be
2544/73 (') of 19 September 1973 on the exchange                granted in the form of a single lump-sum payment.
rate to be applied in agriculture for the Dutch guilder,        4. The total amount of the aid referred to in para­
to a reduction in agricultural prices expressed in guil­        graph 1 may not exceed F1 135 million .
ders by reason of the conversion of such prices, fixed
in units of account for the purposes of the common                                       Article 2
agricultural policy, to the new rate ;
                                                                The Kingdom of the Netherlands shall inform the
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3141 /73 (2) of             Commission before 28 February 1975 of the methods
19 November 1973 on measures to be taken in agricul­            adopted for granting the aid referred to in Article 1 .
ture following the rise in the central rate for the
Dutch guilder authorized the Kingdom of the Nether­                                      Article 3
lands to grant aid to agricultural producers for a
period of seven months ending on 30 April 1974 ;                This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the
                                                                Netherlands .
Whereas, in view of the adverse effect which a
lowering of agricultural prices temporarily has on
production levels, the Kingdom of the Netherlands                Done at Brussels, 17 December 1974.
should be authorized to maintain , for the 1974/ 75
                                                                                              For the Council
marketing year, the aids destined to compensate for
the lowering of prices, which has occurred in that                                              The President
Member State ; whereas such aids should however be
definitely terminated by 30 April 1975,                                                        M. DURAFOUR
(') OJ No L 263 , 19 . 9 . 1973, p. 2.
I2) OJ No L 321 , 22. 11 . 1973, p. 1 .