CELEX: 31974R1453
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1453/74 of the Commission of 10 June 1974 fixing the amounts entering into the calculation of the guaranteed prices for cereals in the United Kingdom during the 1974/75 marketing year

12. 6 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 155/9
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 1453/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 10 June 1974
               fixing the amounts entering into the calculation of the guaranteed prices for
                        cereals in the United Kingdom during the 1974/75 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Kingdom and on the other hand of the difference
COMMUNITIES ,                                                     between the wholesale and the farm gate price ;
                                                                  whereas for the remainder of the 1972/73 marketing
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             year and for the 1973/74 marketing year this amount
Economic Community ;                                              was fixed for the said cereals at 6 units of account per
Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the Acces­             metric ton ;
sion of new Member States to the European Economic                Whereas for the 1974/75 marketing year this amount
Community and to the European Atomic Energy                       should be maintained at 6 units of account per metric
Community, signed on 22 January 1972, and to the                  ton for wheat ; whereas by contrast, as a result of
Act annexed thereto, hereinafter called ' the Act' ;
                                                                  fixing a single intervention price for barley with effect
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      from 1 August 1974, the amount provided for in
749/73 (2) of 19 March 1973, on production subsidies              Article 3 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 for this
which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in               cereal should be modified and fixed at 4 units of
respect of certain agricultural products, and in parti­           account per metric ton ;
cular Article 9 thereof ;
                                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas Article 54 of the Act provides that during                are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
the transitional period the United Kingdom is autho­              ment Committee for Cereals,
rized to retain production subsidies for so long as
there is a difference in this Member State between
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
prices resulting from the application of the arrange­
ments of the common agricultural policy and the prov­
isions of Title II of the Act ; whereas these subsidies                                     Article 1
may not have the effect of increasing the returns of
producers above the level which would have resulted               In order to determine for the 1974/75 marketing year
from the application to these returns of the rules for            the reference level for alignment referred to in Article
the alignment of prices laid down in Article 52 of the            3 (2) (a) of Regulation ( EEC) No 749/ 73 , the amount
Act ;                                                             to be deducted from the common intervention price
                                                                  valid at Duisburg effective in January 1975 is fixed at
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 defines the                    6 units of account per metric ton for wheat and at 4
various components of the system for applying the                 units of account per metric ton for barley.
provisions of Article 54 (3) of the Act ; whereas Article
3 (2) (a) thereof fixes for wheat and barley the amount                                     Article 2
to be deducted from the common intervention price
valid at Duisburg effective in January of each year,              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
account being taken on the one hand of the regional               following its publication in the Official Journal of
differentiation of intervention prices in the United               the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 10 June 1974.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
V) OJ No L 72, 20. 3/ 1973, p. 1 .