CELEX: 31976R2311
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2311/76 of 20 September 1976 temporarily suspending the Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural products for use mainly as feedingstuffs

25 . 9 . 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 261 / 3
                                         COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 2311 /76
                                                      of 20 September 1976
              temporarily suspending the Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricul­
                                         tural products for use mainly as feedingstuffs
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         measures to be taken and their temporary nature and
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       the absence of any provision in the Regulation on the
                                                                    common organization of the market in certain
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              products listed in Annex II to the Treaty for dealing
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 103                  with such a situation with the necessary speed may be
thereof,
                                                                    taken to justify recourse to Article 103 of the Treaty as
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       an exceptional measure, subject to later integration of
827/68 of 28 June 1968 on the common organization                   this measure into the common agricultural policy,
of the market in certain products listed in Annex II to
the Treaty ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 No 1 067/74 (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                                             Article 1
Whereas the drought in 1976 has severely reduced the                Until 31 March 1977 the Common Customs Tariff
availability in the Community of a number of                        duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be
products normally used for animal feed ; whereas this               totally suspended.
situation has led to an increased demand for substitute
products for use in feeding animals or for incorpora­                                            Article 2
tion in compound feed ; whereas, as a result, the
prices for these products on the Community market                   The measures to be taken pursuant to Article 59 (4) of
have risen to a degree which appreciably increases                  the Act of Accession for the products listed in the
 production costs and is indirectly likely to increase              Annex and, where necessary, the detailed rules for the
the cost of living ;                                                application of this Regulation shall be taken in accor­
Whereas to forestall such a development and increase                dance with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of
supplies of these products on the Community market,                 Regulation No 136/ 66/ EEC (*).
it is necessary that the Common Customs Tariff
duties on these products should be totally and tempor­                                           Article 3
arily suspended ;
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas the suddenness of the situation with which                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
the Community is confronted, the urgency of the                      the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels, 20 September 1976.
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                M. van der STOEL
(') OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 196X , p . 16 .
(2 ) OJ No L 120 , 1 . 5 . 1974, p . 2 .                            ( 3 ) OJ No 172 , 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025 / 66 .
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                                                      ANNEX
                  CCT
                heading                                       Description
                   No
            07.05       Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split :
                        B. Other :
                              I. Peas (including chick peas) and beans (of the species Phaseolus)
                             II . Lentils
                            III . Other
            07.06       Manioc , arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and other similar
                        roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh or dried, whole or sliced ;
                        sago pith :
                        B. Other
            12.08       Locust beans, fresh or dried, whether or not kibbled or ground, but not further
                        prepared ; fruit kernels and other vegetable products of a kind used primarily for
                        human food, not falling within any other heading :
                        A. Locust beans
            12.10       Mangolds, swedes, fodder roots ; hay, lucerne, clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines,
                        vetches and similar forage products :
                        A. Mangolds, swedes and other fodder roots
            23.02       Bran , sharps and other residues derived from the sifting, milling or working of
                        cereals or of leguminous vegetables :
                        B. Of leguminous vegetables
            23.06       Products of vegetable origin of a kind used for animal food, not elsewhere specified
                        or included :
                        B. Other
            23.07       Sweetened forage ; other preparations of a kind used in animal feeding :
                        A. Fish or marine mammal solubles
                        C. Other