CELEX: 31967R0123
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Date: 1967-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 123/67/EEC of the Council of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation of the market in poultrymeat

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 19.6.67                     OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                      2301/67
                               REGULATION No 123/67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 13 June 1967
                              on the common organisation of the market in poultrymeat
 THE    COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                       Whereas the creation of a single market for poultry­
 COMMUNITY,                                                    meat involves the introduction of a single trading sys­
                                                               tem at the external frontiers of the Community, this
                                                               system to include levies and export refunds ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
 European Economic Community, and in particular
Articles 42 and 43 thereof;                                    Whereas to achieve this aim it should as a general
                                                               rule be sufficient to introduce, in respect of imports
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;           from third Countries, levies which take account of
                                                               the incidence on feeding costs of the difference be­
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Par­              tween prices for feed grain within the Community
liament1 ;                                                     and on the world market, and of the need to protect
                                                               the Community processing industry;
Whereas the operation and development of the com­
mon market in agricultural products must be accom­            Whereas it is necessary to avoid disturbances on the
panied by the establishment of a common agricultural           Community market caused by offers made on the
policy to include in particular a common organis­             world market at abnormally low prices ; whereas to
ation of agricultural markets which may take various           this end sluice-gate prices should be fixed and levies
forms depending on the product;                                should be increased by an additional amount when
                                                              free-at-frontier offer prices are lower than these
Whereas Regulation No 222 provided that the com­              prices ;
mon organisation of the market in poultrymeat
should be established progressively from 1962 ;
whereas the main feature of the market organisation           Whereas provision for granting a refund on exports
thus established is a system of levies to be applied in       to third countries equal to the difference between
trade between Member States and with third coun­               prices within the Community and on the world mar­
tries, calculated with particular reference to prices for      ket would serve to safeguard Community partici­
feed grain;                                                   pation in international trade in poultrymeat;
Whereas' the introduction on 1 July 1967 of a single          Whereas, in addition to the system described above,
price system for cereals within the Community leads            and to the extent necessary for its proper working,
to the establishment of a single market in poultry­           provision should be made for regulating or, when the
meat on that date;                                            situation on the market so requires, prohibiting the
                                                              use of 'inward processing arrangements';
Whereas the aim of the common agricultural policy is
to attain the objectives set out in Article 39 of the         Whereas the levy system makes it possible to dispense
Treaty; whereas, in the poultrymeat sector, in order          with all other protective measures at the external
to stabilise markets and to ensure a fair standard of
                                                              frontiers of the Community; whereas, however, the
living for the agricultural community concerned, pro­         levy machinery may, in exceptional circumstances,
vision should be made for measures to facilitate the
                                                              prove defective ; whereas, in such cases, so as not to
adjustment of supply to market requirements ;                 leave the Community market without defence against
                                                              disturbances which may arise therefrom after the im­
                                                              port barriers which existed priviously have been re­
1 OJ No 103, 2.6.1967, p. 2084/67.                            moved, the Community should be enabled to take all
2 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 959/62.                             necessary measures without delay;
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Whereas the establishment of a single market in                         CCT
poultrymeat involves the removal at the internal                      heading
                                                                         No
                                                                                                  Description of goods
frontiers of the Community of all obstacles to the
free movement of the goods in question ;                     ( a)        01.05          Live poultry, that is to say, fowls,
                                                                                        ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea
                                                                                        fowls
Whereas the establishment of a single market would
be jeopardised by the granting of certain aids ;
                                                             (b )        02.02          Dead poultry (that is to say, fowls,
whereas, therefore, the provisions of the Treaty which                                  ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea
allow the assessment of aids granted by Member                                          fowls) and edible offals thereof (ex­
States and the prohibition of those which are incom­                                    cept liver), fresh, chilled or frozen
patible with the common market should be made to
apply to poultrymeat; •
                                                              (c)        02.03          Poultry liver, fresh, chilled, frozen,
                                                                                        salted or in brine
Whereas the transition from the system provided in
Regulation No 22 to that established by this Regu­           (d) ex 02.05               Unrendered poultry fat, fresh, chilled,
lation should be effected as smoothly as possible;                                      frozen, salted, in brine, dried or
whereas products marketed during the first weeks                                        smoked
following the date on which this Regulation begins to
apply will have been obtained from cereals purchased          (e)        15.01 B        Rendered poultry fat
at the national prices ruling in the producing country
before that date and differing from the common
prices ; whereas, therefore, the production costs of           (f) ex 16.02 B I         Other prepared or preserved poultry­
such products will still be influenced by differences                                   meat or poultry offal
between the national prices for cereals ruling before
that date, and between these prices and the common
prices ; whereas differences in production costs may
lead to certain disturbances in trade between Member
                                                             2.       For the purposes of this Regulation :
States and with third countries ; whereas, in order to
avoid such disturbances, provision should be made
                                                             (a) 'live poultry' means live fowls, ducks, geese, tur­
for intra-Community levies and supplementary levies                keys and guinea fowls each weighing more than
in respect of third countries on imports of the prod­               185 grammes ;
ucts in question for a certain transitional period;
whereas, moreover, other transitional measures may
prove necessary to facilitate the transition from the        (b) 'chicks' means live fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys
system provided in Regulation No 22 to the system                  and guinea fowls each weighing not more than
established by this Regulation ;                                    185 grammes ;
                                                             (c) 'slaughtered poultry' means dead fowls, ducks,
Whereas , the common organisation of the market in                 geese, turkeys and guinea fowls, whole, with or
poultrymeat must take appropriate account, at the                . without offal ;
same time, of the objectives set out in Articles 39 and
110 of the Treaty ;                                          (d) 'derived products' means the following:
                                                                    ( 1 ) products specified in paragraph 1 (a), exlud-         s
Whereas, in order to facilitate implementation of the                      ing chicks ;
proposed measures, a procedure should be provided
for establishing close co-operation between Member                  (2) products specified in paragraph 1 (b), exclud­
States and the Commission within a Management                              ing slaughtered poultry and edible offals,
Committee;                                                                 known as 'poultry cuts';
                                                                    (3 ) edible offals specified in paragraph 1 (b);
                                                                    (4) products specified in paragraph 1 (c);
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                    (5) products specified in paragraph 1 (d) and (e);
                                                                    (6) products specified in paragraph 1 (f);
                        Article 1
                                                             (e) a 'quarter' means a period of three months begin­
1 . The common organisation of the market in                       ning 1 February, 1 May, 1 August or 1 Novem­
poultrymeat shall cover the following products :                   ber.
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                              Article 2                                   The prices for feed grain within the Community
                                                                          shall be determined once a year for a period of
1 . In order to encourage action by trade and joint                       twelve months beginning 1 August, on the basis
trade organisations to facilitate the adjustment of                       of the threshold prices for such grain and the
supply to market requirements, with the exception of                      monthly increase thereof.
action relating to withdrawal from the market, the
following Community measures may be taken in re­                          The prices for feed grain on the world market
spect of the products listed in Article 1(1 ):                            shall be determined quarterly on the basis of the
                                                                          prices for such grain for the six months preceding
— measures to promote better organisation of pro­                         the quarter during which the said component is
     duction, processing and marketing;                                   calculated.
— measures to improve quality ;                                           However, when the levies applicable from 1
— measures to permit the establishment of short­                          November, 1 February and 1 May are being
     and long-term forecasts on the basis of the means                    fixed, trends in world market prices for feed
     of production used;                                                  grain shall be taken into account only if at the
                                                                          time a new sluice-gate price is being fixed.
— measures to facilitate the recording of market
     price trends.                                                  (b) one component equal to 7% of the average of
                                                                          the sluice-gate prices ruling for the four quarters
General rules concerning these measures shall be                          preceding 1 May of each year.
adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down
in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty.                                          This component shall be calculated once a year
                                                                          for a period of twelve months beginning 1 Au­
2.     Marketing standards :                                              gust.
— shall be adopted for one or more of the products                  2.      The levy on chicks shall be calculated in the
     listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b);                                 same way as the levy on slaughtered poultry.
— may be adopted for the products listed in Article                 However, the quantity of feed grain to be used shall
     1 ( 1 ) ( a), (c), (d), (e) and (f).                           be that required for the production in the Community
                                                                    of one chick; the sluice-gate price shall be that ap­
                                                                    plicable to chicks.
These standards may relate in particular to grading
by quality and weight, packaging, storage, transport,               3 . The Council, acting in accordance with the vot­
presentation and marking.
                                                                    ing procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the
Standards, their scope and the general rules for their              Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, shall :
application shall be adopted by the Council, acting in
accordance with the voting procedure laid down in                   — determine the quantity of feed grain, varied ac­
Article 43 (2) of the Treaty on a proposal from the                      cording to kind of poultry, which is required for
Commission.                                                              the production of one kilogramme of slaughtered
                                                                         poultry and the quantity of feed grain required
                                                                         for the production of one chidc, and the percent­
                              Article 3                                  ages of the various feed grains included in these
                                                                         quantities ;
A levy, fixed in advance for each quarter in accord­
ance with the procedure laid down in Article 17, shall              — adopt rules for the application of this Article.
be charged on imports into the Community of the
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ).                                                           Article 5
                              Article 4                             1 . As regards the products listed in Article 1 (2)
                                                                    (d)-, the levy shall be derived from the levy on slaugh­
1 . The levy on slaughtered poultry shall be com­                   tered poultry, on the basis of the weight ratio of these
posed of:                                                           various products to slaughtered poultry and, where
                                                                    necessary, of the average ratio between their market
 (a) one component equal to the difference between                  values .
      prices within the Community and on the world
      market for the quantity of feed grain, varied ac­             2.      By way of derogation from the provisions of
      cording to kind of poultry, which is required for             paragraph 1, for products falling within Common
      the production in the Community of one kilo­                  Customs Tariff headings Nos 02.03 , 15.01 B and ex
      gramme of slaughtered poultry.                                16.02 B I, in respect of which the rate of duty has
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been bound within GATT, the levies shall be limited          tity of feed grain on the world market shall be the
to the amount resulting from that binding.                   price for the quantity required for the production in
                                                             third countries of one chick and the standard amount
                                                             shall be the amount representing other feeding costs
3.    The coefficients expressing the ratios mentioned       and overhead costs of production and marketing in
in paragraph 1 shall be fixed in accordance with the         respect of one chick. The quantity of feed grain and
procedure laid down in Article 17. The information           the standard amount are not varied according to
used in fixing the coefficients shall be reconsidered at     kind .
least once a year.
                                                             4. As regards the products listed in Article 1 (2)
                        Article 6                            (d), the sluice-gate prices shall be derived from the
                                                             sluice-gate price for slaughtered poultry on the basis
                                                             of the coefficients fixed for such products under
When a substantial price rise is recorded on the Com­        Article 5 (3 ).
munity market and this situation is likely to continue,
thereby disturbing or threatening to disturb the mar­
ket, the necessary measures may be taken.                    5 . The Council, acting in accordance with the vot­
                                                             ing procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the
The Council, acting in accordance with the voting            Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, shall
procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty          adopt rules for the application of this Article.
on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt gen­
eral rules for the application of this Article.                                         Article 8
                        Article 7                             1 . Where the free-at-frontier offer price for a prod­
                                                             uct falls below the sluice-gate price, the levy on that
1.    Sluice-gate prices shall be fixed in advance for .     product shall be increased by an additional amount
each quarter in accordance with the procedure laid           equal to the difference between the sluice-gate price
down in Article 17.                                           and the free-at-frontier offer price.
2.    The sluice-gate price for slaughtered poultry          2.     However, the levy shall not be increased by this
shall be composed of:                                        additional amount as regards third countries which
                                                              are prepared and in a position to guarantee that the
( a) an amount equal to the price on the world mar­          price for imports into the Community of products
     ket for the quantity of feed grain, varied accord­       originating in and coming from their territory will not
     ing to kind of poultry, which is required for the        be lower than the sluice-gate price for the product in
     production in third countries of one kilogramme          question and that any deflection of trade will be
     of slaughtered poultry;                                  avoided .
(b) a standard amount representing other feeding
     costs and overhead costs of production and mar­          3 . The free-at-frontier offer price shall be deter­
     keting, varied according to kind of poultry.             mined for all imports from all third countries.
The price for the quantity of feed grain on the world        However, if exports from one or more third countries
market shall be determined quarterly on the basis of          are effected at abnormally low prices, lower than the
the prices for such grain for the six months preceding       prices ruling in other third countries, a second
the quarter during which the sluice-gate price is             free-at-frontier offer price shall be determined for ex­
fixed .                                                      ports from these other countries.
                                                             4. Detailed rules for the application of this Article
However, when the sluice-gate price applicable from           shall be adopted > in accordance with the procedure
 1 November, 1 February and 1 May is being fixed,            laid down in Article 17.
trends in world market prices for feed grain shall be
taken into account only if the price of the quantity of       The additional amounts shall be fixed, where neces­
feed grain shows a minimum variation from that used           sary, in accordance with the same procedure.
in calculating the sluice-gate price for the preceding
quarter. The information used in fixing the standard                                    Article 9
amount mentioned in (b) shall be reconsidered at
least once a year.                                            1 . To the extent necessary to enable the products
                                                              listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) to be exported on the basis of
3.     The sluice-gate price for chicks shall be calcu­       prices for those products on the world market, the
 lated in the same way as the sluice-gate price for           difference between those prices and prices within the
slaughtered poultry; however, the price for the quan­         Community may be covered by an export refund.
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2.    The refund shall be the same for the whole             4. For the purposes of this Article 'inward process­
Community. It may be varied according to use or              ing arrangements' means all those provisions deter­
destination .                                                mining the conditions under which products from
                                                             third countries are used within the Community in the
The refund shall be granted on application by the            manufacture of goods for export and enjoy exemp­
party concerned.                                             tion from the levies applicable to them.
When the refund is being fixed particular account                                    Article 11
shall be taken of the need to establish a balance be­
tween the use of Community basic products in the
manufacture of processed goods for export to third           1 . The general rules for the interpretation of the
countries and the use of third country products              Common Customs Tariff and the special rules for its
brought in under inward processing arrangements.             application shall apply to the tariff classification of
                                                             products covered by this Regulation ; the tariff no­
                                                             menclature resulting from application of this Regu­
The Council, acting in accordance with        the voting     lation shall be incorporated in the Common Customs
procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of      the Treaty     Tariff from the date on which the latter is fully ap­
on a proposal from the Commission, shall      adopt gen­      plied.
eral rules for granting export refunds and    criteria for
fixing the amount of such refunds.
                                                             2.     Save as otherwise provided in this Regulation or
                                                             where derogation therefrom is decided by the Coun­
Refunds shall be fixed at regular intervals in accord­       cil, acting in accordance with the voting procedure
ance with the procedure laid down in Article 17.             laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty on a pro­
Where necessary the Commission may, at the request           posal from the Commission, the following shall be
of a Member State or on its own initiative, alter the        prohibited:
refunds in the intervening period.
                                                             — the levying of any customs duty or charge having
3 . Detailed rules for the application of this Article            equivalent effect;
shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure            — the application of any quantitative restriction or
laid down in Article 17.                                          measure having equivalent effect, subject to the
                                                                  provisions of the Protocol on the Grand Duchy of
                                                                  Luxembourg.
                        Article 10
                                                             The restriction of import or export licences to a speci­
1 . To the extent necessary for the proper working           fied category of those entitled to receive them shall
of the common organisation of the market in poultry­         be one of the measures considered as having effect
meat, the Council, acting in accordance with the             equivalent to a quantitative restriction.
voting procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the
Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, may
prohibit, in whole or in part, the use of inward pro­                                Article 12
cessing arrangements in respect of products listed in
Article 1 ( 1 ) which are intended for the manufacture       1.     If by reason of imports or exports the Com­
of products listed in that paragraph.                        munity market in one or more of the products listed
                                                              in Article 1 ( 1 ) experiences or is threatened with
2.     Community provisions to regulate the inward            serious disturbances which may endanger the ob­
processing trade in the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )   jectives set out in Article 39 of the Treaty, appropriate
shall be adopted not later than 1 July 1968 .                measures may be applied in trade with third countries
                                                             until such disturbance or threat of disturbance has
                                                             ceased .
3 . Rules to be applied until the provisions men­
tioned in paragraph 2 enter into force shall be              The Council, acting in accordance with the voting
adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to         procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty
in paragraph 1 ; they shall apply in respect of:             on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt de­
( a) the rate of yield to be taken when determining          tailed rules for the application of this paragraph and
                                                             define the cases in which and the limits within which
     the quantity of Article 1 (1 ) products used in the
     manufacture of processed goods for export;              Member States may take protective measures.
(b) the determination, for the purpose of applying           2. If the situation mentioned in paragraph 1 arises,
     the levy, of the quantity of products used in the       the Commission shall, at the request of a Member
     manufacture of processed goods put into free cir­       State or on its own initiative, decide upon the neces­
     culation .                                              sary measures ; the measures shall be communicated
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 to the Member States and shall be immediately appli­          2.      "Within the Committee the votes of Member
 cable. If the Commission receives a request from a             States shall be weighted in accordance with Article
 Member State, it shall take a decision thereon within          148 (2) of the Treaty. The Chairman shall not vote.
 twenty-four hours following receipt of the request.
 3.      The measures decided upon by the Commission                                   Article 17
 may be referred to the Council by any Member State
 within three working days following the day on                 1 . "Where the procedure laid down in this Article is
-which they were communicated. The Council shall                to be followed, the Chairman, shall refer the matter to
 meet without delay. It may amend or repeal the                the Committee either on his own initiative or at the
 measures in question in accordance with the voting             request of the representative of a Member State.
 procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty.
                                                               2.    ' The representative of the Commission shall sub­
                                                               mit a draft of the measures to be taken . The Com­
                          Article 13
                                                               mittee shall deliver its Opinion on such measures
                                                                within a time-limit to be set by the Chairman accord­
 1.      The following shall be prohibited in the internal      ing to the urgency of the questions under consider­
 trade of the Community :                                       ation. An Opinion shall be adopted by a majority of
                                                                twelve votes .
 — the levying of any customs duty or charge having
       equivalent effect;
                                                                3 . The Commission shall adopt measures which
  ■— any quantitative restriction or measure having            shall apply immediately. However, if these measures
      equivalent effect, subject to the provisions of the       are not in accordance with the Opinion of the Com­
       Protocol on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ;              mittee, they shall forthwith be communicated by the
                                                                Commission to the Council . In that event the Com­
 — recourse to Article 44 of the Treaty.                        mission may defer application of the measures which
                                                                it has adopted for not more than one month from the
 2.      Goods listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) which are manu­        date of such communication.
 factured or obtained from products to which Article
 9 (2) and Article 10 ( 1 ) of the Treaty do not apply          The Council, acting in accordance with the voting
 shall not be admitted to free circulation within the
                                                                procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty,
 Community.                                                     may take a different decision within one month.
                          Article 14
                                                                                        Article 18
 Save as otherwise provided in this Regulation,
 Articles 92 to 94 of the Treaty shall apply to ' the           The Committee may consider any other question re­
 production of and trade in the products listed in              ferred to it by its Chairman either on his own initia­
 Article 1 ( 1 ).                                               tive or at the request of the representative of a Mem­
                                                                ber State.
                          Article 15
                                                                                       Article 19
 Member States and the Commission shall communi­
 cate to each other the information necessary for im­           At the end of the transitional period, the Council,
 plementing this Regulation. Rules for the communi­             acting in accordance with the voting procedure laid
  cation and distribution of such information shall be         •down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty on a proposal
   adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down           from the Commission, shall" decide in the light of ex­
  in Article 17.
                                                                perience whether to retain or amend the provisions of
                                                                 Article 17.
                          Article 16
   1 . A Management Committee for Poultrymeat and                                       Article 20
  Eggs (hereinafter called the 'Committee') shall be es­
   tablished, consisting of representatives of Member            This Regulation shall be so applied that appropriate
   States and presided over by a representative of the           account is taken, at the same time, of the objectives
   Commission.                                                  set out in Articles 39 and 110 of the Treaty.
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                          Article 21                                                   Article 24
The additional amount provided for in Article 8 shall          Should transitional measures be necessary to facilitate
be considered as a levy in relation to third countries         the transition from the system provided in Regulation
within the meaning of Article 11 (4) of Council                No 22 to that established by this Regulation, in par­
Regulation No 130/66/EEC1 of 26 July 1966 on the               ticular if the introduction of the new system on the
financing of the common agricultural policy.                   date provided for would give rise to substantial diffi­
                                                               culties in respect of certain products, such measures
                          Article 22                           shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
                                                               laid down in Article 17. They shall be applicable un­
Should Italy have recourse to the provisions of                til 31 December 1967 at the latest.
Article 23 of Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC2 of
13 June 1967 on the common organisation of the
market in cereals, the Council, acting in accordance
                                                                                       Article 25
with the voting procedure laid down in Article 43 (2)
of the Treaty on a proposal from the Commission,
shall take the necessary measures to avoid distortions         The levy and the sluice-gate price shall be fixed for
of competition.                                                the first time for the period from 1 July to 31 Octo­
                                                                ber 1967 .
                          Article 23
1 . In order to offset the differences in feeding costs                                Article 26
between Member States resulting from differences be­
tween feed-grain prices existing before 1 July 1967, a         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day fol­
levy on imports into one Member State from another              lowing its publication in the Official Journal of the
Member State shall be charged during the period                 European Communities.
ending 13 August 1967 in respect of the products
listed in Article 1 ( 1).                                      The system established by this Regulation shall apply
2.    In order to offset the differences in feeding            from 1 July 1967, except for the measures provided
costs between third countries and Member States                 for in Article 24 which may be made to apply from
whose feed-grain prices are higher than the common              the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
prices, such differences resulting from differences in
such prices existing before 1 July 1967, a supplemen­           Regulation No 22 and the provisions adopted in im­
tary levy, in addition to the levies set out in Articles 4     plementation thereof shall be repealed with effect
and 5 increased where appropriate in pursuance of               from 1 July 1967, except for the provisions of Regu­
Article 8, shall be charged during the period ending            lation No 3/63/EEC3 and the provisions in force on
 13 August 1967 on imports from third countries of              that date fixing an additional amount or relating to
the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ).                         the non-fixing of such an amount, to the extent that
                                                                such provisions are compatible with this Regulation
 3.    The Council, acting in accordance with the               and the measures adopted in pursuance thereof. Such
 voting procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the            provisions shall remain in force until amended or re­
 Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, shall fix            pealed in accordance with the provisions of this
 the amounts of the levies and supplementary levies             Regulation and the measures adopted in pursuance
provided in paragraphs 1 and 2.                                 thereof.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 13 June 1967.
                                                                                      For the Council
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                         Ch. HÉGER
 1 OJ No 165, 21.9.1966, p. 2965/66.
 2 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 22 69/67.                           3 OJ No 14, 29.1.1963, p. 153/63 .