CELEX: 31976R2306
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2306/76 of 23 September 1976 temporarily suspending the private storage of Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses

No L 260/ 16                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               24. 9 . 76
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2306/76
                                                        of 23 September 1976
                temporarily suspending the private storage of Grana Padano and Parmigiano
                                                           Reggiano cheeses
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        of storage as laid down in Article 17 ( 1 ) of Commis­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                          sion Regulation (EEC) No 1107/68 of 27 July 1968
                                                                       on detailed rules for intervention on the market in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses (5), as
 Economic Community,                                                   last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 250/76 (6) ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last                  ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in
 particular Article 8 (5) thereof,
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas, under Article 1 1 (2) of Council Regulation
 (EEC) No 971 /68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general                                           Article /
 rules for intervention on the market in Grana Padano
 and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses (3), as last amended                  1.    Current storage contracts concluded under
 by Regulation (EEC) No 473/75 (4), intervention agen­                Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 971 /68 shall
 cies may be authorized, should the market situation so               expire on the day this Regulation enters into force.
 require, to re-market some or all of the cheeses to
 which a storage contract relates ; whereas pursuant to                2.    By way of derogation from Article 17 ( 1 ) of Regu­
 paragraph 1 (c) of the said Article the storage contracts            lation (EEC) No 1107/68 , aid shall be granted in
 concluded by intervention agencies include a clause                  respect of the storage period completed on the day
 allowing for this ;                                                  specified in paragraph 1 , even where such period is of
                                                                      less than three months .
 Whereas the current trend of the market for the
                                                                                                                                  *
 cheeses in question shows a strong demand which                                                Article 2
 cannot be satisfied from the available supply ; whereas
 market prices have increased significantly in                        The conclusion of the storage contracts under Article
 consequence ; whereas, in order to restore the market                 10 of Regulation ( EEC) No 971 /68 is suspended from
 balance, it is necessary to suspend temporarily private              the day this Regulation enters into force until 31
 storage of the cheeses in question and to provide for                March 1977 .
 current storage contracts to be terminated in advance,
 so that the quantities at present in storage may be                                            Article 3
 released on to the market ;
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Whereas in these circumstances provision must be                      publication of the Official Journal of the European
 made to waive the requirement of a minimum period                     Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 23 September 1976.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No  L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(2 ) OJ No  L  67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p . 9 .
(3 ) OJ No  L  166, 17. 7 . 1968 , p. 8 .                             (5) OJ No L 184, 29. 7. 1968, p. 29 .
(4 ) OJ No  L  52, 28 . 2. 1975, p . 23 .                             (6) OJ No L 30 , 5 . 2. 1976, p. 11 .