CELEX: 31973R0464
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 464/73 of the Commission of 31 January 1973 on a transitional measure arising from Accession and relating to the cancellation of import licences for milk and milk products

26 . 2 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 53 /35
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 464/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 31 January 1973
               on a transitional measure arising from Accession and relating to the cancellation of im­
                                              port licences for milk and milk products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        enabling the obligation to import the remaining quan­
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         tities to be cancelled and the relevant security to be
                                                                      returned ;
Having regard to the Treaty (*) concerning the Ac­                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
ces sion of new Member States to the European Econo­                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management
mic C ommunity and to the European Atomic Energy                       Committee for Milk and Milk Products ;
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular Article 63 of the Act ( 2) annexed
thereto ;
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas under Article 13 of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 804/68 ( 3) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiz­                                           Article 1
ation of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by the Act, the importation into the Com­                     In the case of an import licence issued for one of the
munity of any of the products listed in Article 1 of the              products referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
said Regulation is made conditional upon the sub­                     No 804/68 , which shows a new Member State as
mission of an import licence ; whereas the issue of that              country of origin in space No 13 and which is still
licence is made conditional on the giving of security                 valid on 1 February 1973 , the obligation to import
guaranteeing an undertaking to import during                          shall, on application from the holder, be cancelled by
the period of validity of the licence, such security                  the competent agency of the issuing Member State.
becoming forfeit in whole or in part if the importation
is not effected or is only partially effected during that              In such a case the security shall be returned immediately.
 period ;
Whereas from 1 February 1973 import licences will                                               Article 2
 no longer be used for imports from the new Member
 States into the Community as originally constituted ;                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
 whereas certain importers have applied for import                    following its publication in the Official Journal of the
 licences in respect of import operations which they                  European Communities .
 have only been able to effect partially before that
 date ; whereas transitional measures should be taken                 It shall apply from 1 February 1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 31 January 1973 .
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                               The President
                                                                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
  o OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
  ( 2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
  (3) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .