CELEX: 51988PC0120(39)
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-05
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1079/77 IN RESPECT OF THE CO-RESPONSIBILITY LEVY ON MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS

No C 139/44                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   30. 5. 88
                    Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77
                              in respect of the co-responsibility levy on milk and milk products
                                                         (88/C 139/39)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,                                      Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77 is hereby amended as
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,            follows:
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social              1. In Article 1(1), the expression 'during the 1980/1981,
Committee,                                                               1981/1982, 1982/1983, 1983/1984, 1984/1985, 1985/
                                                                         1986, 1986/1987 and 1987/1988 milk years' is replaced
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77 (i), as last
                                                                         by the expression 'during the 1980/1981, 1981/1982,
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1894/87 (2), introduced
                                                                         1982/1983, 1983/1984, 1984/1985, 1985/1986, 1986/
a co-responsibility levy to apply until the end of the 1987/
                                                                         1987, 1987/1988, 1988/1989 and 1989/1990 milk
1988 milk year and covering, in principle, all milk supplied
                                                                         years'.
to dairies and certain sales of milk products at the farm;
Whereas the object of that levy was to establish a better            2. The following paragraph 9 is added to Article 2:
balance on the market for milk by creating a more direct
connection between production and the scope for disposal                 '9. For the 1988/1989 milk year, the levy shall be 2 %
of milk products, in view of the importance of the public                of the target price for milk'.
interests involved; whereas the data and forecasts at
present available show that the abovementioned objectives                                       Article 2
will probably not be reached at the end of the period laid
down; whereas it is therefore necessary, first, to extend            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
application of the said levy to cover the 1988/1989 and              following its publication in the Official Journal of the
1989/1990 milk years and, secondly, to fix the rate of the           European Communities.
levy for the milk year 1988/1989 at 2 % of the target price
for milk,                                                            It shall apply from the beginning of the 1988/1989 milk
                                                                     year.
(!) OJ No L 131, 26. 5. 1977, p. 6.                                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
(2) OJ No L 182, 3. 7. 1987, p. 32.                                  applicable in all Member States.