CELEX: 51985PC0234
Language: en
Date: 1985-05-23
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) AMENDING REGULATION (EEC) NO 1943/81 ON A COMMON MEASURE TO IMPROVE THE PROCESSING AND MARKETING CONDITIONS IN THE CATTLEFEED SECTOR IN NORTHERN IRELAND

19.6.85                                     Official Journal of the European Communities                               No C 149/5
                                                                    II
                                                            (Preparatory Acts)
                                                      COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1943/81 on a common
              measure to improve the processing and marketing conditions in the cattlefeed sector in
                                                            Northern Ireland
                                                           COM(85) 234 final
                                    (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 28 May 1985)
                                                             (85/C 149/07)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                other common measures shall not fall within the scope of
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 1943/81; whereas during the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   period of extension of this Regulation projects which
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and                   may receive aid under Regulation (EEC) No 355/77
43 thereof,                                                             should also be excluded from aid within the scope of
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 1943/81,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                        HAD ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard        to   the    opinion    of   the    European
Parliament,
                                                                                                   Article 1
Whereas the agricultural production sectors which                       Regulation (EEC) No 1943/81 shall be amended as
depend on animal feed continue to be of vital importance                follows:
for the agricultural economy of Northern Ireland;
                                                                        1. Article 6 (2) shall be replaced by the following:
Whereas Article 7 (1) and (2) of Council Regulation                         '2.   Projects which may receive Community aid
(EEC) No 1943/81 (') specify an estimated time required                     under Regulation (EEC) No 355/77 or under other
for carrying out the common measure of four years                           common measures within the meaning of Article 6(1)
beginning on 1 January 1981, and an estimated cost of                       of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 shall not fall within
this measure of six million ECU;                                            the scope of this Regulation.'
Whereas the serious problems of the agricultural                        2. Article 7 (1) is replaced by the following:
production sectors in Northern Ireland depending on
animal feed have been solved only in part by the                            '1.   The estimated time required for carrying out
common measure referred to in Regulation (EEC) No                           the common measure shall be seven years as from 1
1943/81 and consequently an appropriate extension of                       January 1981.'
the time envisaged is necessary; the estimated cost                     3. Article 7 (2) shall be replaced by the following:
requires a corresponding revision;
                                                                            '2.   The estimated cost of the common measure
Whereas Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1943/81                        financed for the period 1 January 1981 to 31
provides that projects which receive aid under Council                      December 1987 shall be 10,5 million ECU. This
Regulation (EEC) No 355/77 of 15 February 1977 on                           amount is for guidance only.'
common measures to improve the conditions under
which agricultural products are processed                    and                                   Article 2
marketed (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1932/84 (3), or which may receive Community aid under                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                        European Communities.
O OJ No L 197, 20. 7. 1981, p. 23.
(2) OJNo L51, 23. 2. 1977, p. 1.                                        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
C) O J N o L 180, 7. 7. 1984, p. 1.                                     directly applicable in all Member States.