CELEX: 51974PC1167
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-15
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) instituting a system of premiums for deferred slaughtering of young fatstock. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak---      COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                    COM(74)1167 final.
                                                Bruxelles . 15 July 1974*
                               PROPOSAL FOR A
                         COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
    instituting a system of premiums for deferred slaughtering of young
                                 fatstock .
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
COM ^) 1167 final .
 ---pagebreak---                     PROPOSAL FOR A
             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
 instituting a system of premiums for deferred slaughtering of young
 fatstock
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 805/68 , of 27 June 1968 ,
on the common organization of the market in beef and veal ,    as last
amended by Begulation ( EEC ) No        /7^» and in particular Article 17
thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the state of the Community beef and veal market in recent months ,
in which prices have been abnormally low , below the intervention price
level , has caused special measures to be adopted , in particular with
respect to imports , exports and intervention ;
Whereas these measures do not appear adequate to put matters to rights in
the near future , inasmuch as , in particular , the time when the animals are
brought in from pasture is the time when market prices are the lowest in the
year , by reason inter alia of the increase in the supply ?
Whereas this being so it is clearly necessary to take preventive measures
calculated to help stabilize the market , and whereas producers should
thus be given an incentive to keep their young slaughter cattle alive in
the coming months for an additional stock farming period ;
                                                                • • •/ • • •
   OJ No L 148 , 28.6.1968 , p. 2k .
2
   OJNoL ...., ........... 197^» p# •••• ( Régulation amending Article 17
   of Régulation 805/68 ).
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Whereas a premium largely covering the expense involved in maintaining
the animals is likely to encourage producers to accept the obligation to
keep them alive pending a steadying of prices , and whereas it is advisable
to provide for the fixing of differentiated amounts of premium in order
to allow for the higher costs borne in the winter months ;
Whereas it is necessary nevertheless to ensure that the intended measure
does not cause slaughter to be deferred for too large a number of animals ,
such as could unbalance the supply position in the first half of 1975 *
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 ---pagebreak---  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION t
                       Article 1
 Producers shall "be entitled on application to a premium for deferred
 slaughter of young fatstook .
 Applications may "be made through associations of produoers on behalf of
 produoers affiliated thereto .
                       Article 2
Granting of the premium shall be subject to conclusion of a contract
between the producer and the competent authority .    The contract require
 in particular that the produoer give a written undertaking to defer by four ;
 or six months the date when the animals to which the contraot relates are
normally slaughtered *
The produoer Bhall indicate in his application whether he wishes to give
his undertaking for four or for six months .    The total amount of the premium
shall be governed by the choice whioh he makes in this respect .
                       Article 3
Member States shall make the premium provided for in Artiole 1 payable in
respeot only of one or more of the following classes of animals :
 ( a)   bull calves whioh would normally be slaughtered at between 16 and
        20 months ;
 (b )   fat steers or heifers which would normally be slaughtered at between
        24 and 30 months .
                       Artiole 4
1.      The unit amount of the premium shall be between 0.60 and 0.90 units
        of acoount per day per animal , taking aocount inter alia of feeding
        costs according to the seasonal trend .
2.      The premium shall be paid when evidence is provided that the animal
        was slaughtered after the end of the period for whioh the undertaking
        was given .
                       Article 5
The conclusion of the oonotracts referred to in Artiole 2 shall oease when
the number of animals to whioh suoh contracts relate is capable of reaching
approximately 400,000 head, and in any event not later than /31 January 1975 )*
 ---pagebreak---                        Article 6
 The provision of Artioles 8 , 9 . and 11 of Council Regulation (EEC )
No 1353/73 of 15 May 1973 , instituting a system of premiums for switching
 dairy herds to meat production and of premiums .. for channelling
 specialized oattle rearing to meat production , ** shall be applicable
"by analogy.
                       Article 7
The implementing procedures of this Regulation shall relate in particular
tox
 (a)     the fixing of the amount of the premium ,
 (b )    the fixing of the opening and closing dates for the making of
         applications for premiums ,
 (c)     the procedures for checking for compliance with undertakings ,
 ( d)    the conditions for oontinuanoe , "by way of exoeption , of entitlement
         to premiums and for recovery of premiums .
                       Article 8
         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
 its publication in the Offioial Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall "be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
 in all Member States *
Done at Brussels , .•••••••••..                       For the Council ,
 é# 0J No 141 , 28.5.1973 . p. 18 .