CELEX: 31973R1346
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1346/73 of the Council of 15 May 1973 amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC as regards the fixing of cereal prices

No L 141 /8                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               28 . 5 . 73
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1346/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 15 May 1973
                       amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC as regards the fixing of cereal prices
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         1 . The first subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall be
                                                                      replaced by the following:
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
 European Economic Community, and in particular                       'In order to guarantee to producers that the
 Article 43 thereof;                                                  market price does not fall below a minimum level,
                                                                      derived intervention prices for common wheat and
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                  barley shall be fixed for the Community, in
                                                                      addition to the basic intervention price.'
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                     2 . Paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following :
 Parliament;
                                                                      'For rye, durum wheat and maize, cereals for
 Whereas Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC (x ) of                     which no basic intervention price is laid down,
 13 June 1967 on the common organization of the                       single intervention prices shall be fixed for the
 market in cereals, as last amended by the Act (2)                    Community for all the marketing centres
 concerning the Conditions of Accession and the                        determined for those cereals. These prices shall
 Adjustments to the Treaties, provides for the fixing of              correspond to the lowest derived intervention
 a basic intervention price for rye; whereas experience               prices which would have been fixed in the
 has shown that this fixed price should be abolished                  Community if the provisions of the preceding
 and replaced by a single intervention price in order to              paragraph had been applied for these cereals.'
 allow greater flexibility in the market for this cereal ;
                                                                  3 . Paragraph 4 ( a) shall be replaced by the following:
                                                                      'The marketing centre to which the lowest derived
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                      intervention price applies and the price in question
                                                                      in respect of each Member State and each cereal
                           Article 1                                  produced in any quantity in that Member State,
                                                                      except for rye, durum wheat and maize.'
 The second indent of Article 2 of Regulation No
  120/67/EEC shall be replaced by the following:                  4. Paragraph 4 (c) shall be replaced by the following :
                                                                      'The single intervention prices for rye, durum
      '— a basic intervention price for common wheat                  wheat and maize.'
          and barley;'
                                                                                          Article 3
                           Article 2
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
  In Article 4 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC :                      1973 .
                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 117, 19. 6. 1967, p . 2269/67.
(2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.