CELEX: 31968R1600
Language: en
Date: 1968-10-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1600/68 of the Council of 15 October 1968 on the financing by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund of the expenditure arising from the special measures taken by the Italian Republic on the importation of feedgrain

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                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 1600/68 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 15 October 1968
                on the financing by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund of the expendi­
               ture arising from the special measures taken by the Italian Republic on the importation of
                                                           feedgrain
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES .                          235/67/EEC7 of 30 June 1967 on the denaturing of
                                                                   sugar for animal feed, and Council Regulation No 172/
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              67/EEC8 of 27 June 1967 on general rules governing
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                  the denaturing of wheat and rye of bread-making quality,
 thereof;                                                          provide for the granting of similar subsidies; whereas
                                                                   those five Regulations also lay down the method of de­
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                termining such subsidies;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                      Whereas those measures taken as a whole allow the ob­
 Parliament1 ;                                                    jectives of the common organization of markets to be
                                                                   achieved; whereas the European Agricultural Guidance
 Whereas Article 23(1) and (2) of Council Regulation               and Guarantee Fund was set up for this purpose by Re­
 No 120/67/EEC2 of 13 June 1967 on the common or­                  gulation N q 25 9 on the financing of the common agricul­
 ganization of the market in cereals, as amended by Re­            tural policy ; whereas expenditure arising from those
 gulation (EEC) No 643/6 8\ provides that the Italian              measures should therefore be made eligible for aid from
 Republic may reduce the import levies on feedgrain, on            the Guarantee Section of the Fund,
 condition that deliveries of the same cereals from Mem­
 ber States are granted and equal subsidy ;                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas the application of such a provision affects pro­
 cessed products and certain denatured products which                                          Article 1
 can be substituted for them; whereas , in accordance with
                                                                    1 . By way of derogation from the provisions of Articles
 Article 23(4) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC , the                   5 to 8 of Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC 10 of 5
 Council is responsible for taking the necessary measures
                                                                   February 1964 on conditions for granting aid from the
 to avoid distortions of competition with regard to trade          European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund,
 in those products;
                                                                   the Guarantee Section of the Fund shall be financially
                                                                   responsible for the expenditure entailed by subsidies
Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 of Council Re­              granted in pursuance of Article 23 ( 1), (2), (4) and (4a) of
gulation No 191/67/EEC 4 of 27 June 1967 on the im­                Regulation No 120/67/EEC. and in pursuance of the
 port and export system for products processed from
                                                                   Community provisions adopted in the market in sugar in
cereals, when the Italian Republic has recourse to Article         order to take account of the fact that Italy has recourse
 23 (2) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC , a subsidy must               to the option provided for in the aforementioned Article
be granted for supplies of certain of those processed              23 .
products coming from other Member States; whereas
 Council Regulations No 194/67/EEC 5 of 27 June                    2. The Fund shall reimburse the actual expenditure in­
 1967 on the system applicable to cereal-based compound            curred by Member States in the form of the subsidies re­
feedingstuffs and No 360/67/EEC 6 of 25 July 1967 on               ferred to in Article 23 ( 1) and (2) of Regulation No 120/
the import and export system for products processed
                                                                    67/EEC, in Articles 18 of Regulations Nos 191/67/
from cereals and from rice, Commission Regulation No
                                                                    EEC , 194/67/EEC and 360/67/EEC, in Article 2 of
                                                                   Regulation No 235/67/EEC and in Article 6a of Regu­
1 OJ No C 55 , 5.6.1968, p. 19.
2 OJ No 117, 19.6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
3 OJ No L 122, 30.5.1968,p.l .                                      7 OJ No 130, 28.6.1967, p. 2602/67.
4 OJ No 133, 29.6.1967, p. 2797/67.                                 8 OJ No 137, 30.6.1967, p. 2940/67.
5 OJ No 133, 29.6.1967, p. 2813/67.                                 9 OJ No 30,20.4.1962, p. 99 1/62.
6 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 13.                                     ,0 OJ No 34, 27.2. 1 964, p. 586/64.  -,
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lation No 172/67/EEC, as amended by Regulation                                               Article 2
(EEC) No 644/68 1.                                                The expenditure referred to in Article 1 shall be the sub­
                                                                  ject of applications for reimbursement submitted in ac­
3. The Council, acting on a proposal from the Commis­             cordance with Article 9 of Regulation No 17/64/EEC,
sion in accordance with the voting procedure laid down            as amended by Regulation No 741/67/EEC 2, and also
in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty, shall adopt as necessary         of decisions on aid from the Fund taken by the Commis­
detailed rules for taking over the expenditure resulting          sion pursuant to Article 10 of the aforementioned Regu­
from the granting of subsidies awarded in pursuance of            lation, as amended also by Regulation No 741/67/
the provisions referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.         EEC.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
              Done at Luxembourg, 15 October 1968.
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                   The President
                                                                                    G. SEDATI
1 OJ No L 122, 30.5.1 968, p; 3.                                  2 OJ No 258, 25.10.1967,p. 2.