CELEX: 31972D0424
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-19 00:00:00
Title: 72/424/EEC: Council Decision of 19 December 1972 extending the system of minimum prices

68                                  Official Journal of the European Communities
No L 291/152                   Official Journal of the European Communities                            28.12.72
                                              COUNCIL DECISION
                                               of 19 December 1972
                                    extending the system of minimum prices
                                                   (72/424/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                        of 28 April 1970,5 laying down additional
TIES ,                                                      provisions for the common organisation of the
                                                            market in wine and of Council Regulation
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                 (EEC) No 2142/70, of 20 October 19701 on the
European Economic Community, and in                         common organisation of the market in fishery
particular Article 44 (6) thereof;                          products;
Having regard to the proposal of the                        Whereas in respect of the products to which
Commission;                                                 that Decision continues to apply, namely
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                potatoes, including seed potatoes, and edible
Parliament; .                                               vinegars and edible substitutes therefor, other
Whereas , in its Decision of 4 April 19621 on               than wine, measures for the common organisa­
minimum prices the Council laid down objective              tion of markets will still not be applicable on
criteria for the establishment of a system of               31 December 1972; whereas the validity of the
minimum prices and for the fixing of those                  Decision of 20 December 1969 should be
prices;                                                     extended for the period necessary to implement
                                                            the said measures and until 31 December 1973
Whereas the Council, in its Decision of
20 December 19692 extended, for the Member                  at the latest,
States concerned, the system of minimum
prices effective on 31 December 1969; whereas               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
it did however authorise the levying of counter­
vailing charges to replace the minimum prices
                                                                                  Article 1
on imports into Germany of edible vinegars and
edible substitutes therefor, and on imports into            In Article 3 of the Decision of 20 December 1969
France of seed potatoes and certain products in
the fisheries sector;                                       on the system of minimum prices as last
                                                            amended by the Decision of 20 December 1971,
Whereas the Decision of 20 December 1969,                   the date 31 December 1972 shall be replaced ,
which was applicable until 31 December 1970                 by 31 December 1973 .
at the latest, was extended by the Decision of
15 December 19703 and the Decision of 20
                                                                                  Article 2
December 19714 successively; whereas when
these extensions were made, the Council took                This Decision is addressed to the Member
into account the fact that for wine vinegar and             States .
the fisheries products referred to in the Decision
of 20 December 1969, the authorisation for the
Member States concerned to levy counter­                    Done at Brussels , 19 December 1972.
vailing charges to replace the minimum prices                                             For the Council
expired on 1 June 1970 and 1 February 1971                                                 The President
respectively, these being the dates of implemen­
tation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 816/70,                                              P. LARDINOIS
1 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 995/62.
2 OJ No L 328 , 30.12.1969, p. 11 .
3 OJ No L 281 , 27.12.1970, p. 25.                          5  OJ No L 99, 5.5.1970, p. 1.
4 OJ No L 2, 4.1.1972, p. 23.                               6  OJ No L 236, 27.10.1970, p. 5.