CELEX: 31970R2591
Language: en
Date: 1970-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2591/70 of the Council of 17 December 1970 on granting aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guidance Section, for the year 1971

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                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2591 /70 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 17 December 1970
                   on granting aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund,
                                           Guidance Section, for the year 1971
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES .                         Whereas provision should be made for a different finan­
                                                                  cial contribution from the beneficiary in respect of pro­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            duction structures and marketing structures,
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
 thereof:                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                                           Article 1
                                                                  The time limit fixed in the first sentence of Article 20 ( 1 )
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­             of Regulation No 17/64/EEC for the submission of
 ment 1 ;                                                         applications for aid from the Guidance Section of the
                                                                  European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
Whereas, in accordance with the first sentence of Article
                                                                   shall be extended as follows in respect of applications for
 20 ( 1) of Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC 2 of 5 Febru­         aid for the year 1971 ; each Member State must submit
ary 1964 on the conditions for granting aid from the              its projects for the year 1971 not later than 31 March
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund,                 1971 .
as last amended by Regulations (EEC) Nos 728/ 703 and                                          Article 2
 729/704, applications for aid from the Guidance Section
of the Fund must be submitted to the Commission each              The available resources of the Guidance Section of the
year before 1 October; whereas it seems necessary to              European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
extend the time limit fixed for the submission of applica­         amounting to 427*5 million units of account shall be
tions for 1971 to 31 March 1971 to facilitate the work of          allotted as follows :
Member States in preparing the submission of those ap­
plications and to shorten, in the interest of applicants the       1 . One portion shall be allotted to the financing of the
period between the submission of the application and the          measures provided for in the following provisions :
decision of the Commission :
                                                                  (a) Article 12 (3) of Council Regulation No 159/66/
                                                                        EEC 5 of 25 Octpber 1966 laying down additional
Whereas part of the available resources of the Guidance
                                                                       provisions for the common organization of the mar­
Section for 1971 must be retained to make it possible to               ket in fruit and vegetables ;
finance the special measures to be taken following the
decisions which will be adopted on agricultural structure,        (b) Article 12 (4) of Regulation No 159/66/EEC;
after examination of the proposals from the Commission            (c) Article 12(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1975/
to the Council on the reform of agriculture in the Com­                696 of 6 October 1969 establishing a system of
munity;                                                                premiums for slaughtering cows and for withholding
                                                                       milk and milk products from the market;
Whereas the maximum amount of aid which may be
granted from the Fund for projects concerned with pro­            (d) Article 7(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2517/
duction structure should be increased to 45%;                           697 of 9 December 1969 laying down certain meas­
                                                                       ures for improving Community fruit products ;
Whereas, in view of present difficulties in the markets for       (e) Article 5 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2511/
certain agricultural products, aid in excess of 25% of the              698 of 9 December 1969 adopting special measures
total amount of investments is justified only for certain              for improving the production and marketing of
projects;                                                               Community citrus fruit.
 1 OJ No C 143 , 3.12.1970, p. 16.                                 5 OJ No 1 92, 27. 10. 1 966, p. 3286/66.
 2 OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p. 586/64.                                 « OJ No L 252, 8.10.1969, p. 1 .
 3 OJ No L 94, 28.4.1970, p. 9.                                    7 OJ No L 318, 18.12.1969, p. 15 .
<  OJ No L 94, 28.4.1970, p. 13.                                   8 OJ No L 318, 18.12.1969, p. 1 .
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2. The remaining portion shall be allotted to the financ­                                     Article 4
ing of the special measures to be taken within the frame­
                                                                   The following third indent shall be added to the first
work of the provisions which will be adopted following
the proposals of the Commission to the Council on the
                                                                   subparagraph of Article 18 (l) of Regulation No 17/64/
                                                                   EEC :
reform of agriculture in the Community .
                                                                       - however, for projects introduced for 1971 , the
3 . One portion amounting to 200 million units of acount                  financial contribution of the party benefiting from
shall be allotted to the financing of products within the                 the improvement must be not less than :
meaning of Article 13 of Regulation No 17/64/EEC.                          - 20% for projects concerning production struc­
                                                                             tures , and
                         Article 3
                                                                           - 38% for projects concerning marketing struc­
By way of derogation from the first indent of Article 18                     tures .'
( 1 ) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC , aid from the Guid­
ance Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and
Guarantee Fund may amount to 45% of the total
amount of investments for certain projects submitted for
                                                                                              Article 5
the year 1971 which fulfil the conditions of Article 11(1 )
(a) and (b) of that Regulation, without prejudice to the           This Regulation shall inter into force on the. third day
provisions of the third indent of Article 18 ( 1) of that          following its publication in the Official Journal of the
Regulation introduced by Article 4 of this Regulation .            European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.       . ,
              Done at Brussels , 17 December 1970 .
                                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                                         The President
                                                                                                         H. LEUSSINK