CELEX: 51981PC0744
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Date: 1981-12-04
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) fixing for the 1982/83 milk year the guideline figure for the fat content of standardized whole milk imported into Ireland and the United Kingdom (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                  COM(81)744 final
                                                  Brussels « k december 1981
                                Proposal for a
                       COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
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     fixing for . the 1982/83 milk year the guideline figure
     for the fat content of standardized whole milk imported
     into Ireland and the United Kingdom
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
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 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
                                              (1 )
 Pursuant to Regulation ( EEC ) No 1411 / 71       as amended by Regulation ( EEC )
            ( 2)
 No 566/ 76      the Member States have , as from 1 October 1976 , applied to
 whole milk for human consumption either the formula of non-standardized
 whole mi Ik whose fat content has not been altered since the milking stage
 ( Ireland and the United Kingdom ) or the formula of standardized whole
 milk with a minimum fat content of 3.5% ( all other Member States , with the
 exception of Italy who have made use of the authorization laid down in
.Article 6(3 ) of the aforesaid Regulation .
 Pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC ): No 1411 / 71 , Ireland and the
 United Kingdom must , however , permit the marketing on their territories
 of standardised whole milk coming from another Member State if the fat
 content of such milk is not less than a percentage to be fixed for each
 milk year and corresponds to the weighted average fat content of the
 whofemilk produced attd marketed in the Member State in question during
 the previous year (guideline figure ).
 According to the figures supplies to the Commission by the two Member
 States concerned , the above-mentioned weighted average is 3,51% for
 Ireland and 3,86% for the United Kingdom .
 It is therefore proposed that the Council should , pursuant to Article 3(7 )
 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 1411 / 71 , fix those figures as guideline figures
 for the milk year 1982 / 1983 .
   1 ) OJ No L 148, 3.7.1971 , p. 4
  (2) OJ No L 67, 15.3.1976 , p. 23 .
 ---pagebreak---                                      COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No                   -
                                              ' of
                 fixing for the 198 ^83 milk year the guideline figure for the fat content of stan­
                       dardized whole milk imported into Ireland and the United Kingdom
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     another Member State must contain to be able to be
COMMUNITIES,                                                    marketed within the territories of the two abovemen-
                                                                tioned Member States ; whereas this guideline figure
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           must be the weighted average fat content of the whole
Economic Community,                                             milk produced and marketed in the importing
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    Member State during the previous year,
 1411 /7J of 29 June 1971 laying down additional rules
on the common organization of the market in milk                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : .
and milk products falling within tariff heading No
04.0 ! ( ' ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                                    Article 1
566/76 (2), and in particular Article 3 (6) (b) therepf,
                                                                For the 1982/ 8.' 3 milk year, the guideline figure
Having regard to the proposal frftm the Commission,             referred to in Article 3 (6) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                141 1 /71 shall be :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 (5) of Regulation (EEC)
No 1411 /71 , Ireland and the United Kingdom apply              – 3-51 % for Ireland,
within their territories the formula of non-standard-           – 3-86 % for the United Kingdom.
ized whole milk within the meaning of the second
indent of Article 3 ( 1 ) (b) of that Regulation ;                                      Article 2
                                                                                                                  i±hir
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 (6) and (7), a guideline '       This Regulation shall enter into force on the 'day
figure must be fixed for the 1982/^3 milk year for the          following its publication in the Official Journal of
fat which standardized whole milk coming from                    the European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, •
                                                                            For the Council
( ') Oj No L 148, 3. 7. 197 !, p, 4.
(-' ) OJ No L 67, 15. 3. 3976, p. 23,