CELEX: 31972R2715
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2715/72 of the Council of 19 December 1972 completing Regulation (EEC) No 647/72 and laying down the intervention prices for butter in Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom for the 1972/73 milk year

Official Journal of the European Communities                             17
28.12.72                       Official Journal of the European Communities                     No L 291/17
                      REGULATION (EEC) No 2715/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                             of 19 December 1972
            completing Regulation (EEC) No 647/72 and laying down the intervention
            prices lor butter in Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom for the 1972/73
                                                    milk year
THE COUNCIL OV THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                       application of Community rules pursuant to
TIES ,                                                     Article 31 ( 1 );
Having regard to the Treaty1 concerning the                Whereas, pursuant to Articles 51 ( 1) and 85
accession of new Member States to the European             of the Act, these provisions shall apply to the
Economic Community and the European Atomic                 intervention prices for butter and skimmed­
Energy Community, signed on 22 January 1972,               milk powder;
and in particular Article 153 of the Act2 an­
nexed thereto;                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the proposal from the Com­
mission;                                                                         Article 1
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 647/723 fixed
intervention prices for butter and skimmed­                Regulation (EEC) No 647/72 shall be completed
milk powder for the 1972/73 milk year; whereas,            by the following Article:
following the enlargement of the Communities                   1 Article la
this Regulation should be completed;                           The intervention prices to be applied for
Whereas Article 51 (2) of the Act provides that                butter until the end of the 1972/73 milk
until the first move towards alignment the                     year shall be:
prices to be applied in each new Member State                  — in Denmark
shall be fixed in accordance with the rules
                                                                    168-53 units of account per 100 kg
provided for in the common organisation of                     — in Ireland
the market in the sector in question at a level                     172-00 units of account per 100 kg
which allows producers in that sector to obtain
re urns equivalent to those obtained under the                 — in the United Kingdom
previous national system; whereas paragraph 3                       84-34 units of account per 100 kg'.
of Article 51 provides that for the United King­
dom these prices should be fixed at a level such                                 Article 2
that the application of Community rules results
in a level of market prices comparable with the            This Regulation shall enter into force on
level recorded in the Member State concerned               Accession .
during a representative period preceding the               It shall apply from 1 February 1973 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
            Member States .
            Done ai: Brussels, 19 December 1972.
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                               The President
                                                                               P. LARDINOIS
1  OJ No L 73 , 27.3.1972, p . 5 .
2  OJ No L 73 , 27.3 1972, p . 14 .
3  OJ No L 79, 1.4.1972, p . 2