CELEX: 51978PC0315
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Date: 1978-07-06
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the granting of aid for the consumption of butter in Italy (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                                 COM(78)315 final.
                                                                 Brussels , 6 July 1978 «
                                    Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
                   on the granting of aid for the consumption of
                                  "butter in Italy
                    ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
C Olí (78 ) 315 final .
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                          EXPLANATORY HSKORAMDOH
   I.   At its meeting from 12 to 16 May the Council approved the Commission's
        proposal that an additional amounj of 50 million ua be assigned to the
        financing of supplementary measures to encourage the consumption of
        butter in the Community -in the 1978/79 milk year* The Council ,at the
        same time noted the Commission 's Intention that the money be used for
        two praotical alternatives offered to the Member States.   The butter
        to be disposed of comes from intervention or has been stored under
        private storage contracts .
  II .  Special difficulties with regard to the implementation of these measures
        arise in the case of Italy.   The Italian butter market is characterized
       by the absenoe of publio stooks and of quantities under private storage
        contracts and by domestic production which cannot be sold to intervention
       and the normal sale of whioh would be jeopardized by the admission under
       the proposed measures of large additional quantities of butter .   To prevent
       discrimination against Italian consumers compared with those in the other
       Member States and at the same .time avoid disturbing the Italian market
       it is neoessary to subsidize a corresponding quantity of butter produced "
       in Italy on the same terms as the butter sold in the other Member States
       under the supplementary measures .
III .  The purpose of the attached proposal for a Council Regulation is to provide
       for this to be done on the basis of Article 12(2 ) of Regulation (EEC )
       No 804/68. .
 IV .  As the expenditure involved will be met from the 50 million ua mentioned
       in I this proposal involves no additional expenditure .
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                                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No
                                                 of
                        on the granting of aid for the consumption of butter in Italy
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                          V   •    avoid such disturbances on the Italian market and to
COMMUNITIES,                                                  avoid discrimination against the consumers in Italy in
                                                              comparison with consumers in the other Member                ,      >.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         States, it is necessary to provide for the possibility of              .
Economic Community,                                           subsidizing a corresponding quantity of butter
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  produced in Italy on the same conditions as the butter
804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization             sold in the other Member States in the framework of
of the market in milk and milk products ( ' ), as last        the said measures,                                                  '
amended by Regulation (EEC) Nol038/ q2), and in
particular Article 12 (2) thereof,                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                                      Article 1
Whereas the situation on the butter market is charac­
terized by large quantities available and it is therefore      1.    Aid shall be granted in Italy for the direct
advisable to increase the consumption of butter by all        consumption of butter produced in that Member
appropriate means ;                                          "State.
Whereas the reduction of final consumer prices is an          2 . The amount of "this aid and                           the maximum
efficient means of attaining this objective ; whereas to      quantity of "butter which may "benefit 'from it shall To
this end the Commission envisages the adoption of             fixed in accordance with the same criteria as th.ose
ad hoc measure based on Article 6 (7) of Regulation           applicable to the sales at reduced prices in other
(EEC) No 804/68 involving an additional reduction in          Member States of "butter from public stocks which
the price of butter bought for direct consumption .           ars under private storage contracts and intended
                                                              for direct consumption.
Whereas the implementation, of the abovementioned             3 . Furthermore , the detailed rules for the application
measure presents particular problems in Italy ;               of this Regulation shall lay down, i;- particular ,
whereas, in fact, the Italian butter market is character­     a time limit for the packaging of the                        tter in
ized on the one hand by the absence of public stocks          small packets and also the provisions guarantee­
and of quantities under private storage contracts, and        ing that the "butter concerned will "be consumed in
on the other hand, by an indigenous production                Italy.
which cannot be sold to intervention and the normal                                   Article 2
sales of which would be jeopardized by the admission,        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
under the abovementioned measure^ of large supple­            following its publication in the Official Journal of
mentary quantities of butter ; whereas, in order to           the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
           , Done at Brussels ,
                                                                           For the Council
>2 ^ OJ No L-148, 28. 6.1968,, p. 13
k ; OJ No L 134 , 22 . 5 . 1978, p. 4