CELEX: 31978D0240
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 December 1977 on aid from the Guidance Section of the EAGGF towards the expenditure of the Italian Republic on refunds on exports to non-member countries and intervention on the internal market in respect of the 1968/69 accounting period

13 . 3 . 78                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 70/29
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 20 December 1977
               on aid from the Guidance Section of the EAGGF towards the expenditure of the Italian
               Republic on refunds on exports to non-member countries and intervention on the internal
                                         market in respect of the 1968 /69 accounting period
                                                    (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                             (78 /240/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                              units of account is to be borne by the Member State in
                                                                          accordance with Article 16 of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                          No 2306/70 of 10 November 1970 on the financing of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     intervention expenditure in respect of the domestic
Economic Community,                                                       market in milk and milk products ( s); whereas the in­
                                                                         spections carried out show that the expenditure de­
                                                                          clared must be increased by Lit 3 796 465 056
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC of                      (6 074 344*09 units of account); whereas the Member
 5 February 1964 on the conditions for granting aid                      State has been fully informed of these corrections and
 from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guaran­                      has been able to give its views thereon ;
tee Fund (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
3171 /75 ( 2), and in particular Article 10 (5 ) (b ) thereof,
                                                                         Whereas the Commission, in its Decisions of 27 June
                                                                          1969 ( 6), 22 December 1969 ( 7) and 23 October
 Having regard to the application for reimbursement                       1970 ( 8), fixed at 239 867 335 units of account the total
 from the Italian Republic,
                                                                         of the advances to be set against aid from the Fund
                                                                         towards the expenditure of the Italian Republic reim­
After consultation with the Committee of the EAGGF,                      bursable by the Guarantee Section in respect of the
                                                                         1968 /69 accounting period ; whereas this should be
                                                                         taken into account when establishing the amount to be
Whereas Article 10 (5 ) (b) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC                   reimbursed by way of such aid,
provides that the Commission is to decide before 31
December 1974 on aid from the Fund on the basis of
the applications for reimbursement of expenditure on
refunds on exports to non-member countries and inter­                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
vention on the internal market submitted by the
Member States in respect of the 1968 /69 accounting
period ; whereas, however, as a result of the consider­
                                                                                                      Article 2
able delays in submitting and verifying these applica­
tions it has not been possible to take a decision on this
aid before December 1977 ;                                                1 . Aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and
                                                                         Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, towards the eli­
                                                                         gible expenditure of the Italian Republic on refunds on
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No                         exports to non-member countries and intervention on
130/66/EEC of 26 July 1966 on the financing of the                       the internal market in respect of the 1968 /69 account­
common agricultural policy (3 ) provides that the con­                   ing period is fixed at a total of Lit 159 630 977 996
tribution from the Fund is to cover all the expenditure                   (255 409 564-80 units of account).
eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) (a), (b) and (c) of Council
Regulation No 25 of 4 April 1962 on the financing of
the common agricultural policy (4), except in the milk                   2 . The sum to be reimbursed by the Fund as aid, after
and milk products sector where the sum of 318 750                        deduction of the advances, totalling 239 867 335 units
 (!) OJ No 34 , 27. 2 . 1964, p . 586/64.                                 (s) OJ No L 249, 17. 11 . 1970, p. 4.
 (2) OJ No L 315 , 5 . 12. 1975 , p. 1 .                                  (6) OJ No L 173 , 15 . 7. 1969.
 (3) OJ No 165 , 21 . 9. 1966, p. 2965/66.                                ( 7) OJ No L 13 , 19. 1 . 1970.
 (4) OJ No 30, 20. 4. 1962, p. 991 /62.                                   (8) OJ No L 244, 7. 11 . 1970.
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of account, approved on 27 June 1969, 22 December              Done at Brussels, 20 December 1977 .
1969 and 23 October 1970 is fixed at 15 542 229-80
units of account.
                                                                                           For the Commission
                       Article 2
                                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.                                           Vice-President