CELEX: 31974D0641
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 17 December 1974 extending the system of minimum prices for potatoes and certain vinegars

No L 349 /60                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  28 . 12. 74
                                                       COUNCIL DECISION
                                                        of 17 December 1974
                  extending the system of minimum prices for potatoes and certain vinegars
                                                             (74/641 /EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                             tively, these being the dates of implementation of
COMMUNITIES,                                                            Council Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 of 28 April
                                                                        1970 (7) laying down additional provisions for the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  common organization of the market in wine and of
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 44                       Council Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 of 20 October
thereof ;
                                                                        1970 (8) on the common organization of the market in
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                    fishery products ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­                  Whereas no common organization of the market in
ment ;                                                                  the products to which that Decision still applies,
                                                                        namely potatoes, including seed potatoes, and edible
Whereas in its Decision                  of 4 April 1962 on            vinegars and edible substitutes therefor, other than
 mimimum prices the Council laid down objective                        wine vinegar, will have been established by 31
criteria for the establishment of a system of minimum                   December 1974 ; whereas the validity of the Decision
prices and for the fixing of those prices ;                            of 20 December 1969 should be extended for the
Whereas the Council in its Decision (2) of 20                           period necessary to implement the said measures and
                                                                        until 31 December 1975 at the latest,
 December 1969 extended, for the Member States
concerned, the system of minimum prices effective on
31 December 1969 ; whereas it did however, authorize                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the levying of countervailing charges to replace the
minimum prices on imports into Germany of edible                                                   Article 1
vinegars and edible substitutes therefor other than
                                                                        In Article 3 of the Council Decision of 20 December
wine vinegar, and on imports into France of seed pota­
toes and certain products in the fisheries sector ;                     1969 on the system of minimum prices, as last
                                                                        amended by the Decision of 17 December 1973 , '31
Whereas the Decision of 20 December 1969, which                         December 1974' is replaced by '31 December 1975'.
was applicable until 31 December 1970 at the latest,
was successively extended by the Decision of 15                                                    Article 2
 December 1 970 (3), the Decision of 20 December
 1971 (4), the Decision of 19 December 1 972 (5) and                   This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
the Decision of 17 December 1973 (6) ; whereas, when
these extensions were made in December 1970 and
                                                                        Done at Brussels, 17 December 1974
December 1971 , the Council took into account the
fact that for wine vinegar and the fisheries products
referred to in the Decision of 20 December 19 69 the                                                     For the Council
authorization for the Member States concerned to levy                                                      The President
countervailing charges to replace the minimum prices
expired on 1 June 1970 and 1 February 1971 respec­                                                        M. DURAFOUR
(■)  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 .
(4)  OJ No  L 2, 4 .   1 . 1972, p. 23 .
(5 ) OJ No  L 291 ,   28 . 12. 1972, p . 152.                          ( 7) OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970 , p. 1 .
(0)  OJ No  L 360 ,   29 . 12. 1973 , p . 65 .                         (8 OJ No L 236, 27 . 10 . 1970 , p. 5 .