CELEX: 31973D0035
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-07 00:00:00
Title: 73/35/EEC: Commission Decision of 7 February 1973 amending the Decision concerning the disposal of butter to certain categories of consumers in receipt of social security benefits

No L 77/46                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               26.3.73
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 7 February 1973
               amending the Decision concerning the disposal of butter to certain categories of con­
                                         sumers in receipt of social assistance benefits
                                                           (73/35/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
COMMUNITIES ,                                                       are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No
804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organi­
zation of the market in milk and milk products, as
last amended by the Act (2 ) annexed to the Treaty ( :i )                                   Article 1
concerning the Accession of new Member States to
the European Economic Community and the Euro­                       With effect from 1 February 1973 the following
pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels                    provision is added to Article 2 ( 1 ) of the Commission
on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 12 (3 )               Decision of 29 December 1972 :
thereof;
                                                                        'As regards the new Member States, the amount
Whereas under the Commission Decision of 29 De­                         shall be reduced by the compensatory amount
cember 1972 concerning the disposal of butter to                        applicable for trade between the Community as
certain ' categories of consumers in receipt of social                  originally constituted and the Member State con­
assistance benefits, subsidies may be granted to enable                 cerned .'
persons who are in receipt of social assistance bene­
fits to buy butter at a reduced price; whereas if the
subsidy were granted in full in the three acceding                                          Article 2
States, where the market price of butter is appreciably
lower than in the Community as originally consti­                   This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
tuded , the resulting price level would be inordinately
low ; whereas it is accordingly necessary to provide
that the maximum amount of aid applicable in the                    Done at Brussels, 7 February 1973 .
three new Member States is to be equal to 136 units
of account per 100 kilogrammes, reduced by the                                                        For the Commission
compensatory amount applicable for trade in butter                                                        The President
between the Community as originally constituted and
the new Member States ;                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(x) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
(2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14.
(3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .