CELEX: 31974R0663
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 663/74 of the Council of 28 March 1974 fixing the target price for milk and the intervention prices for butter, skimmed-milk powder and Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese for the 1974/75 milk year

No L 85/ 52                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               29 . 3 . 74
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 663/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 28 March 1974
               fixing the target price for milk and the intervention prices for butter, skimmed­
               milk powder and Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese for the
                                                      1974/75 milk year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the intervention prices for butter and skim­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      med-milk powder are intended to contribute to the
                                                                  achievement of the target price for milk ; whereas
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             their level should be determined in the light both of
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                  the general situation of supply and demand on the
thereof ;                                                         Community milk market and of the possibilities for
                                                                 disposal of butter and skimmed-milk powder on the
Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the Acces­            Community and world markets ;
sion of new Member States to the European Economic
Community and to the European Atomic Energy
Community, and in particular Article 52 (3) of the Act           Whereas the particular situation obtaining in certain
annexed thereto ;                                                Member States at present does not permit the applica­
                                                                 tion of a uniform intervention price for skimmed­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     milk powder ; whereas it is therefore necessary to
804/68 (2) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­               apply a corrective factor to the aforesaid price ;
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 662/74 (3), and in
particular Articles 3 (4) and 5 ( 1 ) thereof ;                  Whereas in order to ensure that this corrective factor
                                                                 affects market prices in the said Member States
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              without leading to distortions of competition it is
                                                                  necessary to compensate for price differences occur­
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­
ment ;
                                                                 ring in trade in skimmed-milk powder ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and                 Whereas the intervention prices for Grana Padano and
Social Committee ;
                                                                 Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses must be fixed at levels
Whereas, when the target price for milk is fixed,                which will give milk producers in areas of the
account should be taken both of the objectives of the             Community where such cheeses, qualifying to bear
common agricultural policy and of the contribution                the designation of origin , are produced the same long­
which the Community desires to make to the harmon­                term security as regards milk prices to producers as
ious development of world trade ; whereas the objec­             that provided by the intervention measures in respect
tives of the common agricultural policy are in parti­            of skimmed milk and butter ;
cular to ensure a reasonable standard of living for the
agricultural community, to ensure that supplies are              Whereas, since the intervention prices for skimmed­
available and that they reach consumers at reasonable             milk powder in force in the new Member States were
prices ;                                                          in line with the common prices already in the
Whereas, therefore, account should be taken of the                1972/73 milk year, only the intervention price for
                                                                 butter in force in the new Member States must be
importance of milk to the Community's agricultural
economy and consequently to farmers' incomes ;                   aligned in the 1974/75 milk year with the common
whereas, moreover, there must be a balanced relation­             price in accordance with Article 52 (2) (a) of the Act of
                                                                 Accession ; and whereas the effect of the modification
ship between the target price for milk and the prices
of other agricultural products and in particular that of         in prices would be to disrupt the process of the
beef and veal, reflecting the desired movement                    United Kingdom's integration in the Community ;
towards stock-breeding ;                                         whereas therefore it is advisable to limit the alignment
                                                                 of the intervention price for butter obtaining in that
Whereas, furthermore, when the target price is fixed,            Member State, in accordance with Article 52 (3) of the
the Community's endeavours to establish a long-term              aforesaid Act ;
balance between supply and demand on the milk
market, taking into account external trade in milk and
milk products, should be borne in mind ;                         Whereas the present short-term economic situation ,
                                                                 which is having a particularly serious effect on the
(!) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .                           markets for milk products and beef and veal in
(2) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .                         respect of which the new marketing year normally
(3) See p. 51 of this Official Journal .                         commences at the beginning of April , calls for the
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earliest possible application of new guarantee prices          vention agencies in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg
for producers ;                                                and the Netherlands buy in skimmed-milk powder
                                                               shall be the intervention price less a corrective
Whereas the advantages resulting from the increase in          amount of two units of account per hundred kilo­
certain intervention prices should be extended to
                                                               grammes .
buying-in operations in the framework of interven­
tions carried out between 4 March and 31 March 1974
inclusive,
                                                               2. The corrective amount referred to in paragraph 1
                                                               shall be applied to trade in the product in question
                                                               between each of the Member States referred to in para­
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  graph 1 with the other Member States and third coun­
                                                               tries, the Benelux countries being considered as one
                                                               Member State .
                          Article 1
This Regulation shall apply for the 1974/75 milk year.         For this purpose the amounts collected on importa­
                                                               tion and granted on exportation within the framework
                          Article 2                            of the common agricultural policy shall be reduced by
                                                               the corrective amount.
The target price for milk and the intervention prices
for milk products shall be as follows :                        3 . Detailed rules for the application of this Article
                                            u.a. per 100 kg    shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
(a) Target price for milk                         13-41        laid down in Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No
(b) Intervention price :                                       804/68 .
     Butter :
     — in Denmark                                172-40
     — in Ireland                                163-40                                 Article 4
     — in the United Kingdom                     104-89
     — in the other Member States                176-00        In the case of buying-in operations carried out by the
     Skimmed-milk powder                          79-00        intervention bodies between 4 March and 31 March
     Grana Padano cheese :                                     1974 inclusive, these bodies shall pay to sellers, in
     — from 30 to 60 days                        175-50        addition to the buying-in price for 1973/74, an
     — in batches of an average age                            amount equal to the difference between this buying-in
          of six months                          206-60        price and that for the marketing year 1974/75.
     Parmigiano Reggiano cheese in
    batches of an average age of six months 223-60             The compensatory amounts fixed in pursuance of
     ' Batch means a manufacturer's production during          Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 ( ! ) shall not be affected
     the period 1 April to 1 1 November in a given             by the foregoing paragraph .
     year.
                                                                                         Article 5
                          Article 3
 1 . By way of derogation from Article 7 ( 1 ) of Regu­        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
lation (EEC) No 804/ 68 the price at which the inter­           1974 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 28 March 1974.
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                            The President
                                                                               J. ERTL
                                                               (») OJ No L 106, 12 . 5 . 1971 , p . 1 .