CELEX: 31976R1724
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1724/76 of 16 July 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 as regards the date of entry into storage of butter put up for sale

17. 7. 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 193/ 17
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1724/76
                                                          of 16 July 1976
               amending Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 as regards the date of entry into storage
                                                     of butter put up for sale
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      appropriate to relax the rules for the release of butter,
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       in order to enable intervention agencies to release in
                                                                    priority the small quantities of butter actually held in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              storage depots, as these are urgently required for the
 Economic Community,
                                                                    storage of meat ; whereas this can be done by tempor­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       arily withdrawing the provision of Regulation (EEC)
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                  No 232/75 laying down a minimum storage period
 of the market in milk and milk products ( ] ), as last             for butter, thus enabling optimum use to be made of
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                  storage facilities ;
 particular Article 6 (7) thereof,                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 985/68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general rules for               ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 intervention on the market in butter and cream (3), as
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4), and               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 in particular Article 7a thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 232/75 of                                           Article 1
 30 January 1975 on the sale of butter at reduced
 prices for use in the manufacture of pastry products               In Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 232/75, the
 and ice cream (5), as last amended by Regulation                   words 'and taken into storage before 1 February 1976'
                                                                    are deleted.
(EEC) No 1067/76 (6), provides that butter put up for
 sale must have been taken into storage before 1
 February 1976 ;                                                                           Article 2
Whereas, on account of the difficulties encountered                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
 by certain Member States affected by the drought in                following its publication in the Official Journal of
securing the storage of intervention products, it seems             the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Menu>er
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 16 July 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 169, 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 1 .
(«)  OJ No  L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p . 15.
(5)  OJ No  L 24, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 45.
(6)  OJ No  L 121 , 8 . 5. 1976, p . 37.