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Language: en
Date: 1981-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 27 October 1981 on the transportation within the territory of Greece of 18 080 tonnes of olive oil held in the Greek intervention agency's warehouses

14. 11 . 81                          Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 327/35
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 27 October 1981
              on the transportation within the territory of Greece of 18 080 tonnes of olive oil
                               held in the Greek intervention agency's warehouses
                                             (Only the Greek text is authentic)
                                                       (81 /898/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   tion of the oil in question to the warehouses proposed
COMMUNITIES,                                                     by Greece should be authorized ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Economic Community,                                              are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                 ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
786/69 of 22 April 1969 on the financing of interven­
tion expenditure in respect of the internal market in            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
oils and fats (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 352/78 (2), and in particular Article 5 ( 1 ) (e)                                     Article 1
thereof,
                                                                 The Greek intervention agency is hereby authorized
Whereas, on account of the large production of olive             until 31 December 1981 to undertake transportation
oil in 1980/81 in Greece, substantial quantities of              of some 1 8 080 tonnes of olive oil held by it in store
olive oil were placed in intervention in certain centres         in the zones referred to in the Annex to warehouses
within that Member State ; whereas there is a risk that          situated in the Megara intervention centre.
the Greek intervention agency may shortly no longer
be able to accept oil which might be offered to it in                                    Article 2
those centres ;
                                                                 This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.
Whereas Greece asked the Commission on 18 August
1981 for authorization to transfer 18 080 tonnes of
olive oil held in intervention in the production zones           Done at Brussels, 27 October 1981 .
to other intervention warehouses having an available
storage capacity ;                                                                         For the Commission
Whereas, after studying the storage possibilities of the                                      Poul DALSAGER
Member State in question , it has been found that the
Greek application should be accepted and transporta­                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ No L 105, 2. 5. 1969, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 50, 22. 2. 1978 , p. 1 .
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                                              ANNEX
                           Zones where the olive oil for transfer is stored
                                                                            (tonnes)
           1 . Heraklion (Crete)                                             5 660
          2. Chania      (Crete)                                             4 770
          3 . Rethimnon  (Crete)                                             1 700
          4. Lasithion   (Crete)                                               750
          5    Lesbos    (Eastern Aegean)                                    5 200