CELEX: 31978D0359
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-29 00:00:00
Title: 78/359/EEC: Commission Decision of 29 March 1978 on the sale under special conditions of skimmed-milk powder held by the Belgian intervention agency

15 . 4. 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 103/33
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 29 March 1978
               on the sale under special conditions of skimmed-milk powder held by the
                                                 Belgian intervention agency
                                        (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                          (78 /359/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, as regards the financing of the operation,
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        both expenditure and revenue from sale should be
                                                                     attributed to Chapter 92, 'Food Aid', of the general
                                                                     budget of the European Communities and provision
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                     made to that end for the relevant particulars to be
 Economic Community,
                                                                     supplied to the Commission, in monthly statements
                                                                     provided for in Article 2 of Commission Regulation
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       (EEC) No 249/77 of 2 February 1977 laying down
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization                   detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation
 of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last               (EEC) No 2681 /74 on Community financing of expen­
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in                 diture incurred in respect of the supply of agricultural
 particular Article 7 (5) thereof,                                   products as food aid (9) ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1014/68 of 20                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
July 1968 laying down general rules for the public                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
storage of skimmed-milk powder (3), as last amended                  ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
by Regulation (EEC) No 121 1 /69 (4), lays down in
 particular the conditions for the release to the market
of skimmed-milk powder held by the intervention
agencies ; whereas the Belgian agency is holding a                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
quantity of approximately 1 60 tonnes of damaged
skimmed-milk powder from the French intervention
agency, originally intended for a food-aid operation ;
whereas this lot no longer meets the quality and                                            Article 1
packing requirements laid down by Commission Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1108/68 of 27 July 1968 on detailed
rules of application for the public storage of skimmed­              1 . The Belgian intervention agency is hereby autho­
milk powder (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                rized to sell, in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No
 No 1457/75 (6);                                                    443/77, a consignment of approximately 160 tonnes
                                                                    of skimmed-milk powder held by it which no longer
                                                                    corresponds to the quality and/or packing require­
Whereas outlets for these relatively small quantities               ments laid down in the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
exist on the Belgian market under Commission Regu­                   No 1108/68 .
lation (EEC) No 443/77 of 2 March 1977 on the sale
at a fixed price of skimmed-milk powder for use in
feed for pigs and poultry and amending Regulations                  2. By way of derogation to the abovementioned
(EEC) No 1687/76 and (EEC) No 368/77 (7), as last                   Regulation, the selling price of the quantities referred
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2772/77 (8) ;                        to in paragraph 1 shall be at least 12 units of account
whereas the Belgian intervention agency should there­               per 100 kilograms.
fore be authorized to put the quantities in question up
for sale under the said Regulation ; whereas, however,
when fixing the selling price, account should be taken                                      Article 2
of the special situation of the said product ;
 ') OJ   No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.                              1.    As regards the financing of the operation
 2) OJ   No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .                           referred to in Article 1 ,
 3) OJ   No L 173, 22. 7. 1968 , p. 4.
 4) OJ   No L 155, 28 . 6. 1969, p. 13 .                            (a) the revenue from the sale of the skimmed-milk
 5) OJ   No L 184, 29. 7. 1968, p. 34.
 6) OJ   No L 145, 6. 6. 1975, p. 17.                                    products, and
 7) OJ   No L 58, 3. 3. 1977, p. 16.
(8) OJ   No L 320, 15. 12. 1977, p. 18 .                            (9) OJ No L 34, 5. 2. 1977, p. 21 .
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(b) the expenditure incurred by the Belgian interven­                            Article 3
    tion agency, representing
    — storage costs from 24 January 1977 at Bfrs 480       This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
        per day of storage for the total consignment,       Belgium .
    — the cost of removal from storage, and
    — the cost of verification by an approved weigher
        and measurer,
    shall be attributed to Chapter 92, ' Food Aid', of      Done at Brussels, 29 March 1978 .
    the general budget of the European Communities.
2. Particulars of the revenue and expenditure
                                                                                   For the Commission
referred to in paragraph 1 (a) and (b) shall be trans­
 mitted to the Commission in the monthly statements                                 Finn GUNDELACH
 provided for in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
 249/77.                                                                               Vice-President