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Date: 1975-02-05
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EEC) No 971/68 as regards the periods during which Grana Padano and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses may be offered for intervention (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                  COM(75)32 final
                                      Brussels , 5 February 1975
                          Proposal for a
                  REGULATION ( EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
            amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 971/68 as regards
            the periods during which Grana Padano and
            Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses may be offered for
            intervention
          ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
     COM (75 ) 32 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                  Explanatory Memorandum
The purpose of the attached draft Regulation amending Regulation (EEC ) No 971/ 68
laying down general rules for intervention on the market in Grana-padnno and
Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses is to elter the periods during which the cheeses
in question may be offered for intervention .
In the past these cheeses were marketed in lots comprising the entire production
of one manufacturer*           The manufacturers sold the cheeses to maturing
plants when they were between three and nine months old .
In view of this practice , Article 1 ( 2 ) (b ) of Regulation (EEC) NO 971/68
provided that cheeses manufactured in the summer could bo offered for intervention
between 1 January and 31 March .
The considerable increase in interest rates has caused manufacturers of Grana/
Parmesan-type cheeses to put their production on the market as soon as the
cheeses are six months old and to abandon the traditional method of sale by
lots .
The purpose of the proposed text is to adjust the intervention mechcuism to take
account of the new marketing conditions and to enable manufacturers of such
cheeses to offer ±hem for intervention as soon as they are six months old .
It is therefore proposed that the period during which the cheeses may be offered
for intervention extend from 1 October to 15 May of the following year . .
 ---pagebreak---                              REGULATION (SEC )           OF THE COUNCIL
amending Regulation (EEC ) No 971/ 68 as regards the periods during which Grana
Padano and Parmigiario-Reggiano cheeses may be offered for intervention
HIS COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 ^ of 27 June 1968 on the
common organization of the market in milk and milk products , as last amended
by Regulation (ESC) H o 662/74          and in particular Article 8 (4 ) thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas Article 1 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 971/68 ^ of 15 July
1968 laying down general rules for intervention on the market in Grana Padano
and Parmigiano Reggiaao cheeses , as amended by Regulation ( EEC ) HO 1211/69
determines     inter ali a   the period during which  .. cheeses manufactured in
summer may be offered for intervention ;
Whereas , in view of the changes which have occurred in production , maturing
techniques and marketing '             this period should be extended to enable
      intervention to be effected when the cheeses are six months old ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION s
                                        Article 1
Artiole l(2)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 971/68 is amended to read as follows t
nb) Grana/-Padano and Parmigiano-Reggiano oheeses are manufactured between
   • 1 April and 11 November of the same year and offered for intervention
      at a minimum age of six months between 1 October and 15 May of the
      following year ."
 (1)  OJ No  L 148 , 28.6.1968 , p. 13
 (2)  OJ  No L  85 , 29.3.1974 , P. 51
 (3 ) OJ  HO L 166 , 17.7.1968 , p. 8
 (4)  OJ  Ho L I55 , 28.6.1969 , p. 13
 ---pagebreak---                                     Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third, day following its
publication in the . Official 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