CELEX: 31976R0577
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 577/76 of 15 March 1976 making special provision to cover the transition from the 1975/76 to the 1976/77 milk year as regards the levying of accession compensatory amounts on butter in trade with the United Kingdom

No L 69/ 14                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              15 . 3 . 76
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 577/76
                                                         of 15 March 1976
                making special provision to cover the transition from the 1975/76 to the 1976/77
                milk year as regards the levying of accession compensatory amounts on butter
                                               in trade with the United Kingdom
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                        Article 1
 Economic Community,
                                                                     1 . With regard to products falling within heading
 Having regard to the Treaty of Accession (!),                       No 04.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, exported
                                                                     from the United Kingdom after the beginning of the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        1976/77 milk year :
 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
 of the market in milk and milk products (2), as last                (a) the compensatory amounts fixed in the Annex to
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (3), and in                       Regulation (EEC) No 2050/75 will remain appli­
 particular Article 5a thereof,                                          cable in respect of exports to third countries,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        (b) without prejudice to the compensatory amounts in
 233/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules                     force for the 1976/77 milk year, the United
 for the system of compensatory amounts for milk and                     Kingdom shall charge, on exports to other
 milk products (4), and in particular Article 6 ( 1 )                    Member States, an amount equal to the difference
 thereof,                                                                between the compensatory amount fixed in the
                                                                         Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2050/75 and that
                                                                         which is applicable under the terms of the Regula­
 Whereas the alignment with effect from the start of                     tion fixing the accession compensatory amounts
 the 1976/77 marketing year of butter prices in the
                                                                         for the 1976/77 milk year.
 new Member States, in pursuance of Article 52 (2) of
 the Treaty of Accession (5), will lead to a modification
 of the compensatory amounts layed down in Commis­                   2. However, paragraph 1 shall not apply to
 sion Regulation (EEC) No 2050/75 of 25 July                         products in respect of which proof is furnished that
 1975(6);                                                            they were, from 15 March 1976 :
                                                                    (a) produced in the United Kingdom, or
Whereas in view of the marked reduction in the
 compensatory amounts applicable to butter in trade                 (b) exported to the United Kingdom within the
 between the United Kingdom and the other Member                         meaning of Article 4 of Commission Regulation
 States there is a risk of deflection of trade as a result of            (EEC) No 269/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down
 speculative transactions ;                                              detailed rules for the application of the system of
                                                                         accession compensatory amounts (7), as last
Whereas in order to avoid such deflection it is advis­                   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 121 /75 (8).
able to provide that the compensatory amounts
currently in operation should continue to apply after               3 . The United Kingdom shall take the necessary
the beginning of the 1976/77 milk year in the case of               measures with regard to the documents to be
exports from the United Kingdom in respect of which                 produced as evidence for the purposes for paragraph
it is not established that the product concerned was                2. Such measures shall include provision for the verifi­
                                                                    cation of such documents.
produced in or exported to the United Kingdom after
the beginning of the new milk year ;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                                          Article 2
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 March
                                                                     1976 .
(') OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
(2) OJ  No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .                          It shall be applicable until 15 September 1976.
(3) OJ  No  L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 9 .
(4) OJ  No  L 28 , 1 . 2. 1973, p. 37.
(5) OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14.                             (7) OJ No L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 73 .
 6) OJ  No  L 213, 11 . 8 . 1975, p. 42.                            (8) OJ No L 13, 18 . 1 . 1975, p. 23 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 15 March 1976.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission