CELEX: 31977R2219
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2219/77 of 6 October 1977 making special provision for the application of accession compensatory amounts on certain milk products in trade with the United Kingdom

7 . 10 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 256/ 19
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2219/77
                                                   of 6 October 1977
              making special provision for the application of accession compensatory
                   amounts on certain milk products in trade with the United Kingdom
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Tariff exported from the United Kingdom on or after
COMMUNITIES,                                                    1 January 1978 to other Member States or to third
                                                               countries, the United Kingdom shall charge an
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          amount equal to the compensatory amount fixed in
Economic Community,                                            the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 918/77.
Having regard to the Treaty of Accession ( J ),
                                                                2. However, paragraph 1 shall not apply to
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    products in respect of which proof is furnished that,
233/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules            on or after 1 January 1978, they were :
for the system of compensatory amounts for milk and
milk products (2), and in particular Article 6 ( 1 )           (a) produced in the United Kingdom, or
thereof,
                                                               (b) exported from other Member States to the United
Whereas the last alignment of prices with effect from               Kingdom on or after 1 January 1978 .
1 January 1978 in pursuance of Article 52 (2) and (4)
of the Act of Accession (3) will result in the discontinu­
ance of the compensatory amounts laid down in                   3 . The United Kingdom shall take the necessary
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 918/77 of 29 April               measures with regard to the documents to be
 1977 (4) ;                                                     produced as evidence for the purposes of paragraph 2.
                                                                Such measures shall include a provision for the verifi­
Whereas, because of the relatively high level of                cation of such documents.
compensatory amounts currently applicable to certain
dairy products in trade between the United Kingdom
and the other Member States there is a risk of deflec­
tion of trade, as a result of speculative transactions,                                Article 2
with regard to products imported into the United
Kingdom before 1 January 1978 and to home­
produced products which can be substituted for the              With regard to products falling within heading Nos
said products ;                                                 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 of the Common Customs
                                                                Tariff exported from the United Kingdom before 1
Whereas in order to avoid such deflection it is neces­
                                                                January 1978 and imported into another Member
sary to provide that an amount equal to the compensa­           State on or after that date, the United Kingdom shall
tory amount currently in operation shall apply after            charge an amount equal to the compensatory amount
31 December 1977 in the case of exports from the                fixed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 918/77.
United Kingdom where the product concerned
cannot be shown to have been produced in or
exported to the United Kingdom on or after 1
January 1978 ;                                                                          Article 3
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­               The day to be regarded as the operative date in deter­
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
                                                                mining the date of exportation shall be the day on
                                                                which the customs accept the document in which the
                                                                declarant states his intention to export a product.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                         Article 1
                                                                                        Article 4
 1.     With regard to products falling within heading
 Nos 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 of the Common Customs
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
                                                                 1978 .
(») OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5.
(2) OJ No L 28, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 37.
(3) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
b) OJ No L 116, 7. 5. 1977, p. 23.                              It shall apply until 30 June 1978 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 6 October 1977 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President