CELEX: 51976PC0061
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-17
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on measures to be taken owing to the difficulties affecting potato supplies (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                  COM(76)61 final.
                                                  Brussels , 17 February 1976.
                               Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
     on measures to be taken owing to the difficulties affecting
                               potato supplies
               ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 COM176). 61 final .
                                                    1
 ---pagebreak---                                PROPOSAL
                            for
              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC ) No        H6
                                                                           !
                       of
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              on measures to . be .taken owing to the
              difficulties affecting potato supplies
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 113 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas , owing to the very poor potato harvest in the Community in 1975 »
that product is at present in short supply on the market ; whereas that
situation is causing a very sharp increase in potato prices and supply
difficulties in some regions of the Community ;
Whereas the said situation i B appravated through the export of potatoes to
non-member countries , in some cases encouraged by import subsidies ; whereas ,
in order to ensure that the Community is supplied , a tax should be temporarily
imposed on exports of potatoes to nonr-member countries ; whereas , furthermore ,
provision should be made for adjusting the amount of that tax to take account
of changing prices on the Community market and the world market and of any
import subsidies granted by non-member countries ; whereas , in addition , that
tax should be made subject to the provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC )
No 643/75 of 13 March 1975 laying down common detailed rules for the application
of the export levies and charges on agricultural products^^;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                  Article 1
1.   A tax shall be levied on exports to non-member countries of potatoes
falling within subheading No 07-01 A. Ill of the Common Customs Tariff .     The
( 1) OJ No L 67 , 14.3.1975 , P. 16
 ---pagebreak---  amount of that tax shall "be 18 units of account per 100 kilograms .
However , the Commission may adjust that amount to take account of changing
prices on the Community market and the world market and of subsidies granted
"by non-member countries on imports of the products described inthfe first
 subparagraph .  The Commission may also take any interim action necessary for
the application of this Regulation .
                                                \
                                                 \
 2 . The provisions of Regulation (EEC) Ho 645/75 shall apply to the export
 tax referred to in the first paragraph .
               4
                             Article 2
 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .     It shall
apply to operations in respect of which customs export formalities have been
completed from ( following day ) until 30 June 1976 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at Brussel s .                                For the Council