CELEX: 31979R0912
Language: en
Date: 1979-05-08 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 912/79 of 8 May 1979 amending Regulations (EEC) No 2511/69 and (EEC) No 1035/72 in respect of lemons and fixing the financial compensation for these products for June 1979

11 . 5 . 79                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 116/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                        COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 912/79
                                                         of 8 May 1979
               amending Regulations ( EEC) No 2511 /69 and (EEC) No 1035/72 in respect of
                lemons and fixing the financial compensation for these products for June 1979
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        month should be fixed in accordance with the criteria
COMMUNITIES,                                                       set out in Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   2511 /69 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                   Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
thereof,                                                           March 1979 on the impact of the European monetary
                                                                   system on the common agricultural policy (7) laid
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 down the coefficient for expressing amounts, fixed in
                                                                   units of account (u.a.), in ECU,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­
ment ('),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Social Committee (2),
Whereas Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2511 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down special                                             Article 1
measures for improving the production and marketing
of Community citrus fruit (3), as last amended by Regu­            In the second paragraph of Article 6 of Regulation
lation (EEC) No 11 22/78 (4), extended the granting of             (EEC) No 2511 /69, '1 June 1979' shall be replaced by
financial compensation for the marketing of lemons                 '1 July 1979'.
until the end of the 1978 /79 marketing year ;
Whereas these measures have encouraged the                                                  Article 2
marketing of better quality products ; whereas such a
trend should be furthered by retaining these measures
in the coming marketing year ; whereas, therefore,                  In the first indent of the first subparagraph of Article
when calculating the reference price for lemons,                   23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, '31 May 1979'
account should not be taken of the transport costs as              shall be replaced by '30 June 1979'.
defined in Article 23 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
of the market in fruit and vegetables (5), as last                                          Article 3
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 325/79 (6) ;
                                                                    For June 1979, the level of financial compensation for
Whereas, in the absence of a decision for the whole of              lemons of quality categories 'Extra' and 'I' is hereby
the 1979/80 marketing year and in order to ensure                  fixed at 6-58 ECU per 100 kilograms net.
continuity, a measure should be taken for June 1979 ;
whereas the level of financial compensation for that
                                                                                            Article 4
(') Opinion delivered on 12 to 16 March 1979 (not yet
    published in the Official Journal).
(2) Opinion delivered on 4 and 15 April 1979 (not yet              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
    published in the Official Journal).                             following its publication in the Official Journal of
(3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No L 142, 30 . 5 . 1978 , p. 13 .                            the European Communities.
(5) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(6) OJ No L 45, 22. 2. 1979, p. 1 .                                ( 7) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 8 May 1979 .
                                                                     For the Council
                                                                       The President
                                                                    P. MEHAIGNERIE