CELEX: 31975R0085
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 85/75 of the Council of 13 January 1975 amending Regulation No 120/67/EEC on the common organization of the market in cereals

16 . 1 . 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 1 1 / 1
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                                     REGULATION ( EEC) No 85/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                         of 13 January 1975
               amending Regulation No 120/67/ EEC on the common organization of the
                                                          market in cereals
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                                A rticle I
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                       The text of Article 19 of Regulation No 120/67/ EEC
thereof ;                                                              shall be replaced by the following :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                        '1.   When the quotations or prices on the world
                                                                           market for one or more of the products referred to
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­                       in Article 2 reach the level of Community prices,
ment (') ;                                                                 and when that situation is likely to continue and
                                                                           to deteriorate, thereby disturbing or threatening to
Whereas Article 19 of Council Regulation No 120/
67/ EEC (2) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                        disturb the Community market, appropriate
                                                                           measures may be taken .
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1 996/74 (3), aims at avoiding distur­                     2. The Council, acting in accordance with the
bances on the Community market and at ensuring                             voting procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the
stability thereon in the case of significant increases in                  Treaty on a proposal from the Commission , shall
the world market price ; whereas, in order to ascertain                    adopt the general rules for the application of this
the necessity of triggering the measures appropriate to                    Article .
the intended result, provision is made for comparison
between the cif price and the threshold price ;                            3 . The detailed rules for the application of this
whereas, in fact, the threat of disturbance on the                         Article shall be adopted in accordance with the
                                                                           procedure laid down in Article 26.'
internal Community market may already exist, above
all in the surplus areas, even before world market                                              Article 2
prices reach the level of the Community price ;
whereas, the concept of the cif price should be                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 replaced by a concept more suited to a high price situ­               following its publication in the Official Journal of
ation on the world market,                                             the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 13 January 1975.
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                     M. A. CLINTON
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