CELEX: 31977R0919
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 919/77 of 29 April 1977 making special provisions to cover the transition from the 1976/77 to the 1977/78 milk year as regards the levying of accession compensatory amounts on butter in trade with the United Kingdom

30 . 4. 77                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 108 /73
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 919/77
                                                         of 29 April 1977
               making special provision to cover the transition from the 1976/77 to the 1977/78
               milk year as regards the levying of accession compensatory amounts on butter
                                               in trade with the United Kingdom
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       from the United Kingdom after the beginning of the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        1977/78 milk year :
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                 (a) the compensatory amounts fixed in the Annex to
                                                                         Regulation (EEC) No 2199/76 will remain appli­
 Having regard to the Treaty of Accession ('),
                                                                         cable in respect of exports to third countries,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                  (b) without prejudice to the compensatory amounts in
of the market in milk and milk products (2), as last                     force for the 1977/78 milk year, the United
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (3), and in                        Kingdom shall charge, on exports to other
 particular Article 5a thereof,                                          Member States, an amount equal to the difference
                                                                         between the compensatory amount fixed in the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2199/76 and that
233/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules                      which is applicable under the terms of the Regula­
for the system of compensatory amounts for milk and                      tion fixing the accession compensatory amounts
 milk products (4), and in particular Article 6 ( 1 )                    for the period 1 May to 31 December 1977.
thereof,
Whereas the alignment with effect from the start of
the 1977/78 marketing year of butter prices in the                   2.    However, paragraph 1 shall not apply to
United Kingdom, in pursuance of Article 52 (2) of the                products in respect of which proof is furnished that
Treaty of Accession (5), will lead to a modification of             they were, on or after 1 May 1977 :
the compensatory amounts laid down in Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 2199/76 of 8 September                          (a) produced in the United Kingdom , or
 1976 (*);
                                                                    (b) exported to the United Kingdom within the
Whereas in view of the marked reduction in the
                                                                         meaning of Article 4 of Commission Regulation
compensatory amounts applicable to butter in trade                       (EEC) No 269/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down
between the United Kingdom and the other Member                          detailed rules for the application of the system of
States there is a risk of deflection of trade as a result of
                                                                         accession compensatory amounts (7), as last
speculative transactions ;                                               amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 21 /75 (8).
Whereas in order to avoid such deflection it is advis­
able to provide that the compensatory amounts
currently in operation should continue to apply after               3 . The United Kingdom shall take the necessary
the beginning of the 1977/78 milk year in the case of               measures with regard to the documents to be
exports from the United Kingdom in respect of which                 produced as evidence for the purposes for paragraph
it is not established that the product concerned was                2. Such measures shall include provision for the verifi­
                                                                    cation of such documents.
produced in or exported to the United Kingdom after
the beginning of the new milk year ;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                                                     Article 2
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                     1 . With regard to products falling within heading
                             Article 1                              No 04.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, exported
                                                                    from the United Kingdom before 1 May 1977 and
1 . With regard to products falling within heading                  imported in another Member State from that date, this
No 04.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, exported                     Member State shall charge without prejudice to the
                                                                    compensatory amounts in force for the 1977/78 milk
(•) OJ  No  L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5.                             year, an amount equal to the difference between the
(2) OJ  No  L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
P)  OJ  No  L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 9 .                             compensatory amount fixed in the Annex to Regula­
(4) OJ  No  L 28 , 1 . 2. 1973, p. 37 .
(5) OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                              (7) OJ No L 30 , 1 . 2. 1973 , p . 73 .
('  OJ  No  L 247, 9 . 9 . 1976, p . 15.                            (8) OJ No L 13 , 18 . 1 . 1975 , p . 23 .
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tion (EEC) No 2199/76 and that which is applicable                                  Article 3
under the terms of the Regulation fixing the accession
compensatory amounts for the period 1 May to 31
December 1977 .
                                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1977.
2. However, paragraph 1 shall not apply to products
in respect of which proof is furnished that they have
been made in the United Kingdom .                           It shall apply until 30 September 1977.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 29 April 1977.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Vice-President