CELEX: 31973R2454
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2454/73 of the Commission of 7 September 1973 on the prohibition of the export from Italy to third countries of certain goods falling within Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69

No L 252/ 14                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                8 . 9 . 73
                          REGULATION (EEC) No 2454/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 7 September 1973
              on the prohibition of the export from Italy to third countries of certain goods
                                       falling within Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   tation could be harmful to the realization of the objec­
COMMUNITIES,                                                     tive pursued in the agricultural sector in question,
                                                                 because of their high content of this basic product, or
                                                                 of the uses that may be made thereof ; and whereas all
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           elements stated above lead to the conclusion that
 Economic Community ;
                                                                 export of macaroni, spaghetti and similar products
                                                                 jeopardizes, especially in the cereals' sector, the objec­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    tives pursued by the common agricultural policy, set
 1059/69 (!) of 28 May 1969 determining the system of             in Article 39 (1 ) of the Treaty, in particular those
trade applicable to certain goods processed from agri­            mentioned there under d) c) and e) ;
cultural products, as last amended by Council Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1 49 1 /73 (2), and in particular Article 9
(a) thereof ;                                                    Whereas it is therefore necessary to adopt with immed­
                                                                  iate effect appropriate measures to safeguard the
                                                                  Community interests ; and whereas in the actual
Whereas on 27 August 1973 the Italian Republic has                circumstances only a prohibition of export from the
 informed the Commission of the shortage existing of              Italian territory to third countries might improve the
 certain products processed from durum wheat and in               situation ;
 particular of macaroni, spaghetti and similar products
of heading 19.03 of the Common Customs Tariff ;
                                                                 Whereas such a measure cannot be harmful to the
                                                                  interests of the Italian processing industry of the
Whereas in this communication Italy also asked the                products in question ; in fact, the possibility of selling
 Commission to take appropriate safeguard measures to             those products is not compromised, given on the one
avoid that such products be exported from the Italian             hand the shortage existing in that Member State, and
territory ; and whereas indeed such exports would                 on the other hand the limitation of the measure to
endanger the supply already seriously compromised                 export to third countries ;
by the actual shortage ;
Whereas the situation of the world market of durum               Whereas it is desirable to permit the export of maca­
wheat is such that the Commission, by Decision of 4               roni, spaghetti and similar products for supplying sea
August 1 973 (3) has already taken safeguard measures             ships or aircraft flying on international lines,
                                                                  including those within the Community ; and whereas
applicable to export of that product from the Commu­
                                                                  such exports do not harm the objective of this Regula­
 nity ;                                                           tion ;
Whereas the Commission has furthermore, by Deci­
sion of 27 August 1973 (4), taken similar measures               Whereas pursuant to Article 9 (a) (2) of Regulation
concerning durum wheat groats, meal and flour,                   (EEC) No 1059/69 the Member States have been
limited to exports from Italy however ;                           consulted on the present measure ;
Whereas the situation in that Member State requires
that the abovementioned measures be extended to
macaroni, spaghetti and similar products ; and
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas Article 9 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 10 59/69
provides that when , in application of a regulation on
the common organization of the market in a certain
sector, levies, taxes or other measures applicable on
                                                                                           Article 1
exportation of a basic product are adopted, the
Commission can decide to apply appropriate
measures concerning certain goods of which the expor­             1 . The accomplishment in Italy of the customs
                                                                 formalities for exporting to third countries of maca­
(!) OJ No L 141 , 12. 6 . 1969 , p . 1 .                         roni, spaghetti and similar products falling within the
$ OJ No L 151 , 7. 6. 1973, p. 1 . -
P) OJ No L 219, 7. 8 . 1973 , p. 25.                             sub-headings 19.03 A and 19.03 B I of the Common
h) OJ No L 243, 31 . 8 . 1973, p. 44.                            Customs Tariff, and which are in one of the situations
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provided in Article 9 (2) of the Treaty, shall be prohi­                              Article 2
bited.
2. The prohibition provided in paragraph ( 1 ) shall
not apply to exports in the form of supplying sea­           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
going vessels or of aircraft serving international lines,     publication in the Official Journal of the European
including those within the Community.                         Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 7 September 1973.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                           The President
                                                                      Francois-Xavier ORTOLI