CELEX: 31974R0711
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 711/74 of the Commission of 29 March 1974 authorizing the United Kingdom to grant a national supplementary consumer subsidy for butter

1 . 4. 74                           Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 88/ 13
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 711 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 29 March 1974
              authorizing the United Kingdom to grant a national supplementary consumer
                                                    subsidy for butter
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty (J) concerning the Acces­                                   Article 1
sion of the new Member States to the Economic
 Community and the European Atomic Energy                       The United Kingdom is authorized to grant to private
 Community, and in particular Article 63 of the                 ultimate consumers, in addition to the subsidy laid
adjoining Act ;                                                 down in Regulation (EEC) No 1191 /73, a national
                                                                subsidy for butter not exceeding 17 units of account
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 191 /73 (2) of            per 100 kilogrammes.
 8 May 1973 authorizes Member States to grant a
consumer subsidy for butter ; whereas the second
 stage in the alignment of the butter price in the                                       Article 2
 United Kingdom conforming to the conditions laid
 down in the Act of Accession leads, in the light of the        The United Kingdom shall take the measures appro­
 economic situation existing in that Member State, to           priate to ensure that the aid is granted only for butter
 considerable difficulties, given that the subsidy is insuf­    bought for private consumption and that the aid bene­
 ficient to allow an adequate reduction in the retail           fits the ultimate consumer through a reduction of the
 price of butter ; whereas it is acceptable therefore to        final sales price.
 authorize the Member State concerned to grant, as a
 transitional measure, a national supplementary subsidy
                                                                                         Article 3
 of an amount covering the increase in the interven­
 tion price ;
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation           1974 .
 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­              This Regulation shall be applicable up to 31 January
 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                     1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety , and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 29 March 1974.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
•(') OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
 I2) OJ No L 122, 9. 5. 1973, p. 5.