CELEX: 31976R0797
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 797/76 of 6 April 1976 authorizing Member States to grant a premium on the slaughter of certain adult bovine animals intended for slaughter during the 1976/77 marketing year

No L 93/ 8                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                8 . 4 . 76
                                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 797/76
                                                             of 6 April 1976
                  authorizing Member States to grant a premium on the slaughter of certain adult
                      bovine animals intended for slaughter during the 1976/77 marketing year
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                            It shall be calculated in such a way that, when a
  COMMUNITIES,                                                           premium is granted the sum of the market price
                                                                         recorded in the Member State which avails itself of
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                       the authorization referred to in paragraph I and of the
  thereof,                                                              amount of the premium actually granted does not
                                                                        exceed on average and over the marketing year as a
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                   whole, 85 % of the guide price applicable in that
                                                                        Member State . At no time may that sum exceed 88 %
  Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­
                                                                        of the latter guide price.
  ment ('),
  Whereas the intervention price applicable in the beef
  and veal sector for the 1976/77 marketing year was                                            Article 2
  fixed at a level below that resulting from the imple­
  mentation of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC)                    The intervention buying-in price of meat coming
  No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                     from animals which have been the subject of a
  tion of the market in beef and veal (2), as last amended              premium shall be reduced by the amount of the
  by Regulation (EEC) No 568/76 (3) ; whereas the                       premium actually granted .
  Member States should therefore be authorized to grant
  further aid to producers of bovine animals in order to
  enable them to secure incomes in keeping with the                                             Article 3
  increase in the guide price ;
                                                                        By way of derogation from Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation
 Whereas this objective may be met by granting such a                  (EEC) No 729/70, financing by the European Agricul­
  premium for the slaughter of certain adult bovine                     tural Guidance and Guarantee Fund shall be limited
 animals of Community origin intended for slaughter,                    to 25 % of the amount of the premiums actually
 other than cows ;
                                                                       granted during the period from 1 September 1 976
 Whereas this premium constitutes an intervention on                   until the end of the 1976/77 marketing year.
 the internal market within the meaning of Article 3 of
 Council Regulation ( EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April
  1970 on the financing of the common agricultural                                              Article 4
 policy (4 ), as last amended by the Act of Accession (5 ) ;
 whereas, however, the contribution of the European                     1.    Detailed rules for the application of this Regula­
 Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund towards                      tion shall be adopted according to the procedure laid
 the financing of this premium should be limited,                      down in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 .
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                       2.     The rules referred to in paragraph 1 may include
                                                                       in particular :
                               Article 1                               (a) definition of the categories and qualities of
  1.    The Member States other than those referred to                      animals which may be the subject of a premium ;
 in Regulation ( EEC) No 620/76 (6) are authorized, for                (b) measures necessary, in respect of live animals and
 the 1976/77 marketing year, to grant for the benefit of                    meat, to avoid disturbances in trade which result
 producers a premium for the slaughter of certain adult                     from the application of the premium system ;
 bovine animals of Community origin intended for                       (c) conditions under which the premiums can be
 slaughter, other than cows .                                               granted at the first marketing of adult bovine
 2.     The amount of the premium which is variable in                      animals intended for slaughter.
 time may under no circumstances exceed 45 units of
account per adult bovine animal of an average weight
 to be determined .                                                                             Article 5
(') OJ No C 5 .?, 8 . 3 . 1976, p. 24 .                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(-) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24 .                              publication in the Official Journal of the European
(-') OJ  No   L 67 , 1.5 . 3. 1976 , p. 28 .                           Communities.
(4 ) OJ  No   L 94,  28 .  4. 1970,  p. 13 .
(>)  OJ  No   L 73 , 27 .  3. 1972,  p. 14.
( b) O]  No   L 74,  20 .  3. 1976,  p. 1.                             It shall be applicable from 15 March 1976.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Luxembourg, 6 April 1976 .
                                                                    For the Council
                                                                      The President
                                                                      J. HAMILIUS