CELEX: 31973R1984
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1984/73 of the Council of 19 July 1973 defining special conditions for the sale of common wheat held by the Italian intervention agency

21 . 7. 73                           Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 201 /43
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1984/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 19 July 1973
             defining special conditions for the sale of common wheat held by the Italian
                                                   intervention agency
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     2. Italy shall take all necessary steps to ensure that
COMMUNITIES,                                                    the wheat sold under this Regulation is used exclu­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           sively for the manufacture of foodstuffs to be supplied
Economic Community .;                                           to the population of the areas of southern Italy, in
                                                                particular the towns of Naples, Palermo, Ragusa and
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                     Caltanissetta.
67/EEC (1) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the           3 . The provisions of Article 8 of Commission Regu­
Act (2) concerning the Conditions of Accession and              lation (EEC) No 376/70 (5) of 27 February 1970 laying
the Adjustments to the Treaties ;                               down the procedure and conditions for the disposal of
                                                                cereals held by intervention agencies, as last amended
Having regard to Council Regulation No 132/                     by Regulation (EEC) No 1 29/73 (6), and concerning
67/EEC (3) of 13 June 1967 laying down general rules            the information of the Commission shall be appli­
for intervention on the market in cereals, as amended           cable by analogy.
by Regulation (EEC) No 1938/70 (4), and in particular
Article 4 thereof ;                                                                       Article 2
Whereas the Italian Government has informed the                 The price at which the product shall be sold by the
Council and the Commission that considerable diffi­             intervention agency shall be governed by the provi­
culties have arisen in connection with wheat supplies           sions of Article 3 (2) (a) and (b) of Commission Regula­
for the population of southern Italy, particularly that         tion (EEC) No 376/70.
of Naples, Palermo, Ragusa arid Caltanissetta ;                 However, when the sale relates to a delivery to a place
Whereas this unusual situation calls for the adoption           in the areas concerned, the selling price shall corres­
of special measures enabling a large . quantity of              pond to the local market price in the place where the
common wheat now held by the Italian intervention               product is stored, plus the cost of transporting it to
agency to be made available within a very short period          the area concerned .
of time ; whereas the normal sale procedure, namely                                       Article J
an invitation to tender, is not such as to permit a
rapid reaction, at Community level, to this special situ­       Should the supply situation in areas of southern Italy
ation ; whereas Italy should therefore be authorized to         not develop satisfactorily because the quantity set out
arrange sales by mutual agreement, provision being              in Article 1 is inadequate, Italy may be authorized in
made to ensure that the operation is carried out                accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26
smoothly ;                                                      of Regulation No 120/67/EEC to sell an additional
                                                                quantity of not more than 60 000 metric tons on
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                   terms analogous to those defined in the present Regu­
           /                                                    lation .
                         Article 1 .
                                                                                          Article 4
 1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of
Article 3 of Regulation No 132/67/EEC, Italy is                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
hereby authorized to sell, by mutual agreement on the           publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                Communities.
terms set out below, 40 000 metric tons of common
wheat held by its intervention agency.                          It shall apply until 30 September 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 19 July 1973.
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                             J. KAMPMANN
(') OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1 967, p. 22 69/67.
(2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(>) OJ No 120, 21 . 6. 1967, p. 2364/67.                        (5) OJ No L 47, 28 . 2. 1970, p. 49.
b) OJ No L 215, 30. 9. 1970, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ No L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973, p. 17.