CELEX: 31976R1861
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1861/76 of 27 July 1976 on the transfer of skimmed-milk powder to the Italian intervention agency by the intervention agencies of the other Member States

31 . 7. 76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 206/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1861 /76
                                                       of 27 July 1976
              on the transfer of skimmed-milk powder to the Italian inteirvention agency by
                               the intervention agencies of the other Member States
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas detailed rules should be laid down for taking
COMMUNITIES,                                                        over the products and for transferring responsibility
                                                                    for them ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas the provisions covering the accounting side
                                                                   of this operation should be aligned on the arrange­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        ments laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                   2306/70 of 10 November 1970 on the financing of
of the market in milk and milk products (1), as last                intervention expenditure in respect of the domestic
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in                  markets in milk and milk products (5), as last
particular Article 7 (4) thereof,                                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 844/76 (6) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas such measures imply that the Guarantee
729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the                    Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and
common agricultural policy (3), as last amended by                 Guarantee Fund should bear the cost of transport,
Regulation (EEC) No 2788/72 (4), and in particular
Article 3 (2) thereof,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the Community market is characterized by                                            Article 1
very large stocks of skimmed-milk powder ; whereas
these stocks are, however, primarily held by certain                ! . A quantity of 1 0 000 metric tons of skimmed­
Member States, while Italy in particular possesses no              milk powder held by the intervention agencies of the
such stocks because of the particular nature of its milk           other Member States shall be made available to the
production ;                                                       Italian intervention agency for use in animal feeding­
                                                                   stuffs.
Whereas in contrast to the difficulties in marketing
the surpluses in the Member States concerned, Italy is             2. The arrangements for applying this Article shall
experiencing      supply       difficulties,    which     are      be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid
compounded by the need for feedingstuffs after the                 down in Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68.
livestock is next brought in from pasture, since it has            These arrangements shall establish which intervention
only been possible to make up small reserves of                    agencies are to make the skimmed-milk powder avail­
feedingstuffs from domestic production owing to the                able and how it is to be transported.
drought ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas in order to alleviate these problems it seems
advisable to make available to the Italian intervention
agency part of the quantities of skimmed-milk powder                1 . The intervention agencies holding the products
which are still available in intervention in the rest of           referred to in Article 1 shall enter the quantities of
the Community ;                                                    skimmed-milk powder as a zero debit in the account
                                                                   referred to in Article 3 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   2306/70 .
(') OJ  No L  148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ  No L 67, 15. 3. 1976, p. 9.
Q)  OJ  No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 13 .                             (5) OJ No L 249, 17. 11 . 1970, p. 4.
(4) OJ  No L 295, 30. 12. 1972, p. 1 .                             (<>) OJ No L 204, 30. 7. 1976, p. 1 .
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2. The Italian intervention agency shall enter the                                 Article 3
quantities of skimmed-milk powder of which it has
taken delivery as a zero credit in the account referred
to in paragraph 1 .
3. The transport costs incurred by the intervention         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
agencies shall be entered in the account referred to in     following its publication in the Official Journal of
Article 3 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 2306/70.            the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 27 July 1976.
                                                                       For the Council
                                                                         The President
                                                                      M. van der STOEL