CELEX: 31973R0749
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 of the Council of 19 March 1973 on production subsidies which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in respect of certain agricultural products

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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 749/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 19 March 1973
              on production subsidies which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in respect
                                                of certain agricultural products
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas in respect of certain products the guaranteed
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       price will reach the common price in the more or
                                                                    less near future ; whereas in that case, the conditions
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                 in which the system of guaranteed prices for these
 pean Economic Community ;                                          products will be discontinued before the expiry of
                                                                    the transitional period should be laid down ;
 Having regard to the Treaty ( x ) concerning the
Accession of new Member States to the European
 Economic Community and to the European Atomic
Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 1972, and in particular Article 54 (4) of the Act
 annexed thereto, hereinafter called 'the Act' ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                    This Regulation lays down the rules for the imple­
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                        mentation of Article 54 of the Act. It shall apply to
 Parliament ;                                                       wheat, barley, oats, rye, sugar beet, pig carcases,
Whereas Article 54 of the Act provides that during                  beef and veal, eggs and liquid cows' milk for con­
the transition period the United Kingdom is author­                 sumption .
ized to retain production subsidies for so long as
there is a difference in this Member State between                                          Article 2
prices obtained under the national system of guaran­
teed prices and market prices resulting from the                    1 . As regards the products listed in Article 1 and
application of the arrangements of the common                       without prejudice to Article 4, the prices obtained
agricultural policy and the provisions of Title II of               under the system of guaranteed prices referred to in
the Act ; whereas these subsidies may not have the                  Article 54 ( 1 ) of the Act are the guaranteed prices
effect of increasing the returns of producers above                 fixed for the marketing year in question within the
the level which would have resulted from the appli­                 framework of the system laid down in the Agri­
cation to these returns of the rules for the alignment              culture Acts, 1947/ 1957 of the United Kingdom .
of prices ;
                                                                    2 . The production subsidies referred to in Article
Whereas the implementation of those provisions                      54 of the Act are those granted under the system
requires that the different features of the system, and             of guaranteed prices .
in particular the prices obtained, the returns, and
the level which the returns should ultimately attain ,                                      Article 3
should be defined ; whereas that level must be fixed
in such a way as to ensure that the guaranteed prices               1 . As regards the products referred to in Article 1 ,
 are comparable with Community prices ;                             with the exception of milk, the returns referred to in
Whereas in respect of certain products it is essential ,            Article 54 (3 ) of the Act are those which on the
in order to avoid distortion in competition, to lay                date of entry into force of this Regulation result
down special measures having regard to the system                   from the application of the system of guaranteed
of guaranteed prices for those products ;                          prices .
                                                                   2.     In the application of Article 54 ( 3 ) of the Act,
(*) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p . 5 .                            the alignment of the prices obtained under the
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  system of guaranteed prices defined in Article 2 of                of the common agricultural policy, and in particular
 this Regulation shall be established with reference to :            the oommon organization of the market in eggs.
  ( a ) in the case of wheat and barley, the common
         intervention price valid at Duisburg effective in                                      Article 6
         January of each year, less an amount to be
         determined, account being taken both of regional
         differentiation of intervention prices in the United       The methods used, under the systems of guaranteed
         Kingdom and of the difference between the                  prices, to ascertain or calculate the average prices
         wholesale and the farm gate price (hereinafter             obtained by producers on markets shall not be
         referred to as 'adjusted intervention price'), this        altered so as to bring the calculated prices down to a
        amount being fixed at 6 units of account per                level lower than that which would result from the
        metric ton for the remainder of the 1972/ 73                application of the methods used before 1 February
                                                                    1973 .
        marketing year and for the 1973 /74 marketing
        year ;
 ( b ) in the case of oats and rye, the adjusted inter­                                         Article 7
        vention price for barley referred to in ( a) multi­
        plied by a coefficient calculated on the basis of
        the relationship between the threshold price for            1.      The sysftem of guaranteed prices shall be discon­
        oats and rye respectively and the threshold price          tinued as soon as possible and, in any case as soon
                                                                   as :
        for barley obtaining for the marketing year in
        question ;                                                  ( a) in the case of wheat and barley, the adjusted
 ( c) in the case of pig carcases, the common basic                       intervention price effective in the United King­
        price ;                                                           dom ;
 ( d ) in the case of beef and veal, the guide price for            ( b ) in the case of oats and rye, the adjusted inter­
        adult bovine animals increased by 3-41 units of                   vention price for barley effective in the United
        account per 100 kg liveweight ;                                   Kingdom , multiplied by the coefficient referred
                                                                          to in Article 3 (2 ) (b ) ;
 (e) in the case of sugar beet, the minimum price                  ( c) in the case of pig carcasses, the common basic
        of beet.
                                                                          price, less the compensatory amount ;
                            Article 4                              ( d) in the case of beef and veal, the guide price for
                                                                          adult bovine animals effective in the United
 1.       Article 54 of the Act shall apply to production                 Kingdom, increased by 3-41 units of account per
 subsidies provided for within the framework of the                       100 kg liveweight,
system of guaranteed prices for milk within a stan­
dard quantity.                                                    is equal to or exceeds the guaranteed price appli­
                                                                  cable to these products .
2.        The guaranteed price of milk applicable to the          2.       The system of guaranteed prices may not be
standard quantity may be increased to the maximum ,               applied after :
in keeping with the decrease, arising out of the align­
ment of prices , by an amount equal to the difference             — 30 June 1974 in the case of sugar beet ;
between the support level of milk resulting from the
intervention prices effective in the United Kingdom               — 31 March 1974 in the case of eggs .
and that resulting from the intervention prices effec­
tive in the Community .
                                                                                               Article 8
3.        When , in a given milk year, the average price
received by United Kingdom producers equals or
exceeds the market price resulting, in the milk year              Each year the United Kingdom shall notify the Com­
in question , from the application of the mechanisms              mission in good time of the guaranteed prices which
of the common organization of the market in milk                  it proposes to fix.
products , the system of guaranteed prices shall be
revoked with effect from the following milk year.
                                                                                               Article 9
                            Article S
                                                                 Detailed rules of application of this Regulation shall
The guaranteed price for eggs shall be fixed in such              be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid
a way as to avoid disrupting the proper functioning              down in Article 26 of Council Regulation No 120/
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67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common orga­                                        Article 10
nization of the market in cereals as last amended by          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of
the Act, or in the corresponding Articles of the other        its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
Regulations on the common organization of agricul­            pean Communities.
tural markets, whichever is appropriate.
                                                              It shall apply until 31 December 1977.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 19 March 1973 .
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                             A. LAVENS
(!) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p . 2269/67 .