CELEX: 51988PC0466(05)
Language: en
Date: 1988-09-12
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1079/77 ON A CO-RESPONSIBILITY LEVY AND ON MEASURES FOR EXPANDING THE MARKETS IN MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS

12. 10. 88                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No C 265/7
              Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77 on a
                 co-responsibility levy and on measures for expanding the markets in milk and milk products
                                                       COM(88) 466 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 13 September 1988)
                                                          (88/C 265/07)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                                      Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               The following fourth paragraph is added to Article 1 of
Economic Community, and in particular Article 13                    Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77:
thereof,
                                                                        '4.   The amount of the levy resulting from the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                      application of Article 2 and, where appropriate, of
                                                                        paragraph 3 of this Article, shall be reduced by 0,5
Having regard        to   the   opinion   of   the  European
                                                                        points in respect of producers whose deliveries during
Parliament,                                                             the fourth period of application of the additional levy
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                        arrangements referred to in Article 5c of Regulation
Social Committee,                                                       (EEC) N o 804/68 did not exceed 60 000 kilograms.
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77 0), as last                         Any producer who commenced or recommenced
amended by Regulation (EEC) N o 2234/88 (2),                            deliveries after the beginning of the fourth 12-month
introduced a co-responsibility levy applicable until the                period before a date specified each year by the
end of the 1988/89 milk year and due, in principle, on                  Member State concerned and whose deliveries as
all milk delivered to dairies and on certain types of farm              recorded or, where appropriate, estimated, for the
sale of milk products;                                                  first year of production, do not exceed 60 000
                                                                        kilograms shall also qualify for the 0,5 point
Whereas pursuant to Article 5c of Council Regulation                    reduction.'
(EEC) No 804/68 on the common organization of the
market in milk and milk products (3), as last amended by                                      Article 2
Regulation (EEC) No 1109/88 (4), the duration of the
additional levy arrangements was extended from five to              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
eight consecutive periods of 12 months; whereas a                   publication in the Official Journal of the European
decision was also taken to renew the co-responsibility              Communities.
 levy at the rate of 2 % with effect from 1 July 1988;
whereas it would seem appropriate, therefore, to ease the           It shall apply with effect from 1 July 1988.
burden of the co-responsibility levy on small producers,
                                                                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                       directly applicable in all Member States.
  (') OJ No L 131, 26. 5.  1977, p. 6.
  0)  OJ No L 197, 26. 7.  1988, p. 36.
  O   OJ No L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
  (4) OJ No L  110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 27.