CELEX: 31968R2010
Language: en
Date: 1968-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2010/68 of the Council of 9 December 1968 on granting aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guidance Section, for the year 1969

Official Journal of the European Communities                                   579 .
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                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2010/68 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                of 9 December 1968
              on granting aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund , Guidance
                                             Section, for the year 1969
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                     order to shorten, in the interests of applicants, the
                                                              period between the submission of the application
                                                              and the decision of the Commission ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community and in particular                 Whereas part of the available resources of the
Article 43 thereof;                                           Guidance Section for 1969 must be retained in order
                                                              to make it possible to finance the special measures
Having regard to the proposal from the Commis­                to be taken following the decisions which will be
sion ;
                                                              adopted on agricultural structure after examination
                                                              of the Commission Memorandum to the Council
                                                              on the reform of agriculture in the European Econ­
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                  omic Community ;
Parliament1 ;
                                                              Whereas the maximum amount of aid which may be
Whereas, under Article 14 ( 1 ) (a) of Council Regula­        granted from the Fund for projects concerned with
tion No 17/64/EEC2 of 5 February 1964 on the con­             production structure should be increased to 45°/o>;
ditions for granting aid from the European Agricul­
tural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, in order to
benefit from aid from the Fund each project must              Whereas in view of present difficulties in the markets
come within the framework of a Community Pro­                 for certain agricultural products, aid in excess of
gramme laid down in accordance with Article 16 of             25% of the total amount of investments is justified
that Regulation ;                                             only for certain projects ;
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Community Programmes have not yet been
adopted ; whereas it is therefore not possible to pre­
pare on the basis of such Programmes the projects                                     Article 1
for 1969 to be financed by the Fund ; whereas it is
therefore necessary not to apply Article 14 ( 1 ) (a)         The provisions of Article 14 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation
of Regulation 17/64/EEC with regard to applications           No 17/64/EEC shall not apply to projects which
for aid submitted for 1969 ;                                  are the subject of applications for aid from the
                                                              Guidance Section of the European Agricultural
                                                              Guidance and Guarantee Fund submitted for the year
Whereas, in accordance with the first sentence of             1969 .
the first subparagraph of Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion No 17/64/EEC, applications for aid from the                                      Article 2
Guidance Section of the Fund must be submitted to
the Commission each year before 1 October; whereas            The time limit fixed in the first sentence of the first
it seems necessary to extend the time limit fixed             subparagraph of Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
for the submission of applications for 1969 to 28 Feb­        17/64/EEC for the submission of applications for aid
ruary 1969 and at the latest to 20 March 1969 in              from the Guidance Section of the European Agricul­
order to facilitate the work of Member States in,             tural Guidance and Guarantee Fund shall be exten­
preparing the submission of those applications and in         ded as follows in respect of applications for aid
                                                              for the year 1969 : each Member State must submit
                                                              one half of its projects for the year 1969 by 28 Feb­
1 OJ No C 116, 8.11.1968 , p. 24.                             ruary 1969, and the remainder not later than 20
2 OJ No 34, 27.2.1964, p. 586/64.                             March 1969 .
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                         Article 3                                within the meaning 'of Article 13 of Regulation No
                                                                  17/64/EEC .
The available resources of the Guidance Section of
the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
Fund amounting to 285 million units of account                    3 . The remaining portion shall be allotted to the
shall be distributed as follows :                                 financing of special measures to be taken following
                                                                  the decisions which will be adopted on agricultural
                                                                  structure after examination of the Commission Mem­
1 . One portion shall be allotted to the financing of             orandum to the Council on the reform of agricul­
the measures provided for in the following :                      ture in the European Economic Community.
( a ) Article 12 of Council Regulation No 130/66/
      EEC1 of 26 July 1966 on the financing of the                                        Article 4
      common agricultural policy;                                 By way of derogation from the first indent of Ar­
(b ) Article 12 (3 ) of Council Regulation No 159/66/             ticle 18 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC, aid from
      EEC2 of 25 October 1966 laying down additional              the Guidance Section of the European Agricultural
      provisions for the common organisation of the               Guidance and Guarantee Fund may amount to up
      market in fruit and vegetables ;                            to 45°/o of the total amount of investments for cer­
                                                                  tain projects submitted for the year 1969 which fulfil
(c) Article 12 (4) of Regulation No 159/66/EEC;                   the conditions of Article 11 ( 1 ) ( a) and (b ) of that
(d) Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Regulation, without prejudice to the provisions of
      350/68 3 of 27 March 1968 on the financial con­             the second indent of Article 18 ( 1 ) of that Regula­
                                                                  tion .
      tribution of the Comrrtunity towards costs in­
      curred by Member States in carrying out surveys
                                                                                          Article 5
      of pig population.
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
2. One portion amounting to 160 million units of                  day following its publication in the Official Journal
account shall be allotted to the financing of projects            of the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 9 December 1968 .
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                          The President
                                                                                            G. SEDATI
1 OJ No 165, 21.9.1966, p. 2965/66.
 2 OJ No 192, 27.10.1966, p. 3286/66.
 3 OJ No L 76, 28.3.1968 , p. 4.