CELEX: 31973R1923
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1923/73 of the Commission of 17 July 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 concerning export certificates for milk and milk products

No L 198 /28                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              18 . 7. 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1923/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 17 July 1973
                amending Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 concerning export certificates for milk
                                                          and milk products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         tioned products ; whereas there is a need to comply
COMMUNITIES,                                                           for this purpose, with the particular provisions of
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                  Whereas, the amount of the deposit for export certifi­
                                                                      cates applying to products falling within Common
                                                                       Customs Tariff subheading 04.01 A by virtue of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      Article 37 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 is
804/68 (J) of 27 June 1968 , on the common organiza­
                                                                      apparently too high, on account of the value of the
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last
                                                                       products in question ; whereas it is appropriate from
amended by the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of
                                                                      now on to reduce this deposit ;
Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties and in
particular Articles 13 (3) and 17 (4) thereof.                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                      are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Whereas, in the Annex to Commission Regulation                         ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
(EEC) No 2637/70 (3) of 23 December 1970, on the
particular methods of applying the system of import,
export and prefixation certificates for agricultural                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
products, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 1 702/73 (4), the length of validity of export certificates                                   Article 1
for skimmed-milk powder and animal feed stuffs
based on skimmed-milk powder was fixed at 30 days                      In the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70, the
with effect from 28 June 1973 ; whereas developments                  time limit of '30 days' set out in heading a) is replaced
in the world protein markets have made it necessary                   by that of ' 15 days'.
to reduce this time limit further ;
                                                                                               Article 2
Whereas Article 17 (2) of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 1373/70(5) of 10 July 1970, on the
                                                                      The Article 35a following is inserted in Regulation
common methods of applying the system of import,                      (EEC) No 2637/70 :
export and prefixation certificates for agricultural
products placed under a single price system, as last                       'Article 35a
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1796/73 (6),                                When an export certificate is requested for one of
provides that if an export certificate was requested for                   the products set out in Article 1 of Regulation
an open invitation to tender in a third country and if,                    (EEC) No 804/68, for an open invitation to tender
within 21 days following the final date for the placing                    in an importing third country, the provisions of
of tenders, the interested party has not informed the
                                                                           Article 17 (2) second and third lines of Regulation
agency to whom the certificate was delivered, the                          (EEC) No 1373/70 do not apply.'
result of the invitation to tender, the certificate is not
delivered and the deposit is not recovered ;
                                                                                               Article 3
Whereas the application of this provision proves to be
inappropriate for milk and milk products due to the                    In Article 37 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70,
fact that in the majority of cases, the competent agen­               between the first and second hyphen, the following
                                                                      indent is inserted :
cies of importing third countries do not decide to
accept or reject tenders until after a delay which can                     '— 0-25 unit of account for products falling under
extend for several months ; whereas it is thus appro­                           Common Customs Tariff subheading 04.01 A'.
priate to make use of the possibility provided in
Article 17 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 1373/70 and                                              Article 4
not to apply the said provision for the abovemen­
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(1) OJ  No  L   148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .                         publication in the Official Journal of the European
(2) OJ  No  L  73 , 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.                                Communities.
Q)  OJ  No  L   283, 29 . 12. 1970, p. 15.
(4) OJ  No  L   173, 27. 6. 1973, p. 12.
(5) OJ  No  L   158 , 20 . 7. 1970, p . 1 .                           Article 2 is applicable to the export certificate deliv­
(6) OJ  No  L   183 , 5. 7. 1973 , p . 1 .                            ered as from 8 July 1973 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 17 July 1973.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                     The President
                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI