CELEX: 31978R0995
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 995/78 of 12 May 1978 fixing the guide price and the intervention price for adult bovine animals for the 1978/79 marketing year

18 . 5. 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 130/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 995/78
                                                       of 12 May 1978
              fixing the guide price and the intervention price for adult bovine animals for
                                                 the 1978/79 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, under Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
COMMUNITIES,                                                      805/68 , the intervention agencies must buy in beef
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             and veal offered to them when average prices on the
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                  Community market are below the intervention price ;
thereof,                                                          whereas, under Article 6 ( 1 ) of the same Regulation,
                                                                  the intervention agencies buy in, having regard to the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      characteristics of the production of the Member State
805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                 to which they belong, meat offered to them which has
of the market in beef and veal (*), as last amended by            certain quality characteristics ; whereas, in the light of
Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular                 the experience of recent years and foreseeable market
Article 3 (3), the first paragraph of Article 4 and the           trends, provision should be made for the 1978/79
second subparagraph of Article 6 (4) thereof,                     marketing year for suspending, in respect of each
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                Member State or in respect of certain regions of
                                                                  Member States, intervention buying-in of each of
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­              these qualities when it is found that their price on the
ment (3),                                                         representative markets of the Member State or the
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                  region in question exceeds their maximum buying-in
Social Committee (4),                                             price over a certain period,
Whereas, when the guide price for adult bovine
animals is fixed, account should be taken both of the
objectives of the common agricultural policy and of               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the contribution which the Community desires to
make to the harmonious development of world trade ;
whereas the common agricultural policy aims inter
alia to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricul­                                 Article 1
tural community, to guarantee the availability of
supplies and to ensure that supplies reach consumers              For the 1978/79 marketing year, the guide price for
at reasonable prices ;                                            adult bovine animals shall be 125-97 units of account
Whereas the guide price must be fixed in accordance               per 100 kilograms live weight
with the criteria laid down in Article 3 (2) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 805/68 ; whereas for the 1978/79
marketing year it should be fixed at a higher level                                       Article 2
than that adopted for the previous marketing year ;
Whereas, moreover, in view of the current economic                For the 1978/79 marketing year :
situation on the beef and veal market, the intervention
price for adult bovine animals for the 1978/79                    — the intervention price referred to in the second
marketing year should be fixed at the same level in                   subparagraph of Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
relation to the guide price as that adopted for the pre­              No 805/68 shall be 113-37 units of account per
vious marketing year ;                                                100 kilograms live weight,
                                                                  — the price level referred to in the first sentence of
(>) OJ  No L  148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.                               Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall
(2) OJ  No L 61 , 5. 3. 1977, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No C  85, 10. 4. 1978, p. 31 .                                be 113-37 units of account per 100 kilograms live
(«) OJ  No C  101 , 26. 4. 1978 , p. 10 .                             weight.
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                         Article J                              2. If the buying-in by the intervention agencies has
                                                                   been suspended pursuant to point 1 , the Commis­
For the 1978/79 marketing year :                                   sion shall decide to resume the buying-in, where
1 . By way of derogation from Article 6 ( 1 ) and (3) of           the market price for that quality or those qualities
    Regulation (EEC) No 805/68, buying-in by the                   remains   at  the   same   level or  less than    the
    intervention agencies of one or more qualities to              maximum buying-in price during a period of two
    be determined of fresh or chilled meat falling                 consecutive weeks .
    within subheadings 02.01 A II a) 1 , 02.01 A II a) 2
    and 02.01 A II a) 3 of the Common Customs Tariff
                                                               3. The maximum buying-in price shall be calculated
    may be partially or wholly suspended in a Member               for each of the qualities determined by applying to
                                                                   an amount equal to 90 % of the guide price a coef­
    State or in a region of a Member State :
                                                                   ficient expressing the normal relationship, adjusted
    (a) by the Commission, according to the procedure              according to the characteristics of each Member
        laid down in point 4, where the market price               State's production, between the price for the
        for the quality or qualities in question, recorded         quality in question and the price of adult bovine
        in accordance with Article 12 (6) of Regulation            animals recorded in accordance with Article 12 (6)
        (EEC) No 805/68 on the representative markets              of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 on the representa­
        of the Member State in question remains —                  tive markets of the Community.
        during a period of three consecutive weeks —
        above 100 % and equal to or less than 102 %            4. Detailed rules for the application of this Article
        of the maximum buying-in price fixed for that              shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
        quality or those qualities in accordance with              laid down in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   805/68 .
        point 3 ;
    (b) by the Commission, where the market price                                       Article 4
        referred to in (a) remains — during a period of
        three consecutive weeks — above 1 02 % of the          This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 May
        maximum buying-in price referred to in (a).             1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 12 May 1978 .
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                             The President
                                                                             P. DALSAGER