CELEX: 51973PC1290
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-19
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL defining special conditions for the sale of common wheat held by the Italian intervention agency (submitted by the Commission to the Council)

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 ---pagebreak---     COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                      COM(73)1290 final
                                                   Brussels , 19 July 1973
                            Proposal for a
                      REGULATION' ( EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
                defining special conditions for the sale
                of common wheat held by the Italian inter­
                           vention agency
                ( submitted by the Commission to the Council )
COM ( 73 ) 1290 final
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                            Proposal for a
        Regulation ( EEC ) No        /73 of the Council
      ■ defining special conditions for the sale of common wheat
                   held by the Italian intervention agency
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC^of                 June 196? on the
  common organization of the market in cereals , as last amended by the Act
                                                                                  –S' '  .  2
  concerning the 6onditions of Accession and the Adjjteujtments to the . Treaties •
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 132/67/EEC^of 13 June " 1967 laying'
                                               C' \ )
  down general rules for intervention /£jrv the market in cereals , as amended
  BY Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1938/70^, and ^particular Article thereof ;
  Whereas the.j[talian government has informed the Council and the Commission
  that considerable difficulties:      r " u v
                                                have arisen in connection with bread
  supplies for the population of certain areas of southern Italy ,!                     the
                  problem being particularly acute in Naples , Palermo , /^agusa and
  Caltanissetta ;
  Whefceas this unusual situation calls for the adoption of special measures
  which# would make it possible to make availabia , within a very short space of
                »
  time , a large qual^titiy of common wheat now held by the , Italian intervention
  agency® wheraas the normal procedure                     " : ' ' that \rj\ is to say , an
  invitation _        to tender , does not maf^s it possible for the Community to
  react rapidly to special circumstances of this kind ; whereas Italy should
  therefore be authorized to arrange sales by mutual agreement,;"' ' provision
  being made to ensure that the operation is . carried through smoothly ;
( 1 ) OJ No'- 17 , 19.6 O 1967 , p 2269/67
( 2 ) OJ No L 73# . 27.3.1972 , p                        .
( 3) OJ N0            120 , 21.6.1967 , p 236V67                                -
S) OJ No L 215 , 30.9.1970, P 1
 ---pagebreak---   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                              .
                                    Article 1
   1 o By way of derogation from the provisions of Article of Regulation No
        132/ 67/EEC ,     Italy is hereby authorized to sell , on the terms set out
        below , kO 000 metric tons of common wheat held by its intervention agency 0
  2 0 Ivaly shall          all necessary steps to ensure that the product sold under
      ^ this Regulation sterbfefeS-^used exclusively for the (^i|anufacture of bread to I
            areas of southern Italy ,                  in particular the towns of /^aplcs ,
      . Palermo , Ragusa and Caltamissettao
                                    Ar61cle 2                              . ■       &A
  The price at which the product shall be sold by the interventjon^nge^c^
  be governed by the provisions of Article 3 ( 2 ) ( a) and ( b ^ of/&egulation ( EEC )
  No 376/70 of 27 February 197$ laying down the procedure and conditions for the
  disposal of cereals held by intervention              agencies , as last amended by
  Regulation ( EEC ) No 129/73 6 „
  However , 'J '      where the          sale     _ • relates to a delivery to a '
  place situated in the areas affected , th<2 selling prace shall correspond to
  the market price in the place in whuch the              product is stored , plus the
  cost of transporting it          from that place to friri/pt% those areas 0
                                  Article 3
  Should                    the supply situ(t/Sjion in areas of southern Italy
          not improve sufficently because the               •       > \ quantity set out
  in -Article 1 is           inadequate , italy may be authorized in accordance with
  the procedure laid down in /Vrticle 26 of /^ gulation Wo 120/67/EE^ to .c^z^–
  an additional quantitiy of not more than 60 000 metric tons                      ■  on
  terms analogous to those defined in the present Regulation
(5      OJ No " 47 , 28.2.1970 , p ^9
( 6 ) OJ No L 17 , 20o1o1973 , P 17
 ---pagebreak---                          Article k
™his Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publicatuon in
Official Journal of the European Communities g
It shall apply until JO September 1973 «
This Regulation 'shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States#
Cone at Brussels ,                              For t&e Council
                                                The President