CELEX: 31974R0753
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 753/74 of the Commission of 29 March 1974 extending the period of application of and amending of the protective measures relating to beef and veal

No L 86/76                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            30 . 3 . 74
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 753/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 29 March 1974
                extending the period of application of and amending of the protective measures
                                                      relating to beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        tion, there would be a short period during which
COMMUNITIES,                                                          products could be imported into the Community
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 without being subject to the production of an import
Economic Community ;                                                  licence and this could lead to speculative importations
                                                                      escaping the surveillance arrangements and possibly
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          aggravating the unfavourable trend of the market in
805/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                    the products in question ;
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 87/73 (2), and in particular                 Whereas it is necessary to limit the period of applica­
Article 21 (2) thereof ;                                              tion of the measures provided for in this Regulation to
                                                                      the period strictly necessary to bring into operation
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 (3)                     the system of licences as extended under Article 15 of
of 21 February 1974 introduced protective measures                    Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 to cover the products in
for beef and veal ; whereas those measures, which                     question,
provide in particular for a system of licences, were by
Regulation (EEC) No 656/74 (4) extended to 31 March
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1974 ;
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 752/74 (5) the                                                  Article 1
Council extended the system of licences to cover all
products affected by those measures ; whereas it will                 In Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 paragraph 4 of Article
not be possible to prepare and adopt the detailed rules                1 and Article 2 are deleted .
necessary for the application of that system to those
products in sufficient time for them to come into oper­                                        Article 2
ation on the date of expiry of the said protective                    Import licences and advance fixing certificates which
measures ;
                                                                      bear an endorsement in Section 12 in accordance with
Whereas the grounds for introducing that part of the                  Article 1 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 shall be
protective measures which comprises the system of                     valid throughout the Community.
licences will continue to exist after the said date ;
whereas in particular it will be necessary to keep the                                         Article 3
importation into the Community of live animals and
of beef and veal under close surveillance ; whereas                    In Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 442/74, the date
provision must therefore be made for measures                          on which the system is to cease to apply is replaced
enabling a smooth transition to be made from the                       by the date 21 April 1974.
system introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 to
                                                                                               Article 4
the system provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
 752/ 74 ;                                                             Council Regulation (EEC) No 474/74 (6) of 26
Whereas to this end it is necessary to extend the                      February 1974 is repealed.
 period of application of the system of licences intro­
 duced by Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 ;                                                         Article 5
 Whereas, moreover, if the transition were not effected                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
 by means of the measures provided for in this Regula­                  1974 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 29 March 1974.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                               Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (')  OJ  No L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24.
 (2 ) OJ  No L  25 , 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 23 .
 (3)  OJ  No L  50 , 22. 2. 1974, p. 33 .
 (4)  OJ  No L  79 , 25 . 3 . 1974, p. 3 .
 (5 ) See p. 75 of this Official Journal .                             (6) OJ No L 56, 27 . 2. 1974, p. 24.