CELEX: 31978R0215
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 215/78 of 1 February 1978 amending Regulation (EEC) No 937/77 following the fixing of a new exchange rate to be applied in the United Kingdom in agriculture

2 . 2 . 78                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 31 / 13
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 215/78
                                                        of 1 February 1978
              amending Regulation ( EEC) No 937 /77 following the fixing of a new exchange
                               rate to be applied in the United Kingdom in agriculture
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                                                Article 1
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                       Article 1 item 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 937/77 is
878 /77 of 26 April 1 977 on the exchange rates to be               hereby amended to read as follows :
applied in agriculture ( ] ), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 179/78 (2), and in particular Article 5                    ' 3 . The last subparagraph of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regula­
thereof,                                                                       tion (EEC) No 1134/68 shall apply to the
                                                                               products and Member States concerned with
Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 937/77 of                              effect from the dates set out in Article 2 (2) to
29 April 1977 laying down detailed rules for the appli­                        (6) and in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No
cation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 878 /77 on the                           878 / 77 .'
exchange rates to be applied in agriculture (3 ), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 198 / 78 (4), provided
that the provisions of the last subparagraph of Article
                                                                                                Article 2
4 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30
July 1968 laying down rules for the implementation
of Regulation ( EEC) No 653/ 68 on conditions for alter­            The following subparagraph is hereby added to Article
ations to the value of the unit of account used for the              1 item 4 of Regulation ( EEC) No 937/77 :
common agricultural policy (5), shall apply to the
products and the Member States concerned with effect                     ' In the case of the representative rate for the
from the dates set out in Article 2 (2) to (5), and in                    pound sterling entering into force on 2 February
Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC) No 878 /77 ;                               1978 , the said provisions shall apply only to
                                                                          licences or certificates or other documents certi­
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 179 /78 amended Arti­                         fying the advance fixings issued, within the
cles 2 and 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 878 /77 to take                       meaning of Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
account of the new representative rate fixed for the                      193 /75, before 25 January 1978 .'
pound sterling entering into force on 2 February
1978 ; whereas , therefore , an addition needs to be
made to Regulation (EEC) No 937/77 ;                                                            Article 3
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the manage­                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 February
ment committees concerned,                                           1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 1 February 1978 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                      Vice-President
(!)  OJ  No L 106 , N 4 . 1977, p. 27,
(2 ) OJ  No L 26 , 31 . 1 . 1978 , p. 3 .
(3 ) OJ  No L 110 , 30 . 4 . 1977, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No L 27, 1 . 2. 1978 , p. 43 .
(5 ) Of  No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .