CELEX: 31971R1252
Language: en
Date: 1971-06-14
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1252/71 of the Council of 14 June 1971 amending the intervention system provided for in Regulation No 121/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat

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                                    REGULATION (EEC) No 1252/71 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 14 June 1971
              amending the intervention system provided for in Regulation No 121 /67/EEC on the
                                       common organisation of the market in pigmeat
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                          Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                    The following shall be substituted for Article 5 of
Article 43 thereof:                                               Regulation No 121 /67/EEC :
                                                                     ' 1 . The buying-in price for pig carcases of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                 . standard quality may not be more than 92% nor
                                                                     less than 85% of the basic price.
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                         2. For products of standard quality other than
Parliament1;                                                         pig carcases, buying-in prices shall be derived
                                                                     from the buying-in price for pig carcases on the
                                                                     basis of the ratio of each of the sluice-gate prices
Whereas a Community intervention system was                          for these products to the sluice-gate price for pig
established for pigmeat by Regulation No                             carcases .
121 /67/EEC2 of 13 June 1967 on the common
organisation of the market in pigmeat, as last                       3 . For products other than those of standard
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 777/713;                              quality, buying-in prices shall be derived from
                                                                     those in force for the related standard qualities,
                                                                     account being taken of differences in quality
Whereas it has been shown that application of the                    compared with the standard quality. These prices
provisions of Article 5 ( 1) of Regulation No                        shall apply to defined qualities.
121/67/EEC can give rise to difficulties when it is
necessary to take intervention measures quickly;                     4. The procedure laid down in Article 24 shall
whereas Article 5 should be amended accordingly;                     apply for the purposes of:
                                                                     (a) determining the products covered by the
Whereas, in view of the considerable differences                          intervention measures and, where buying-in is
between the various regions of the Community as                            concerned, the qualities of those products;
regards production and consumption habits, it should                       moreover, as regards certain regions of the
be possible to apply intervention measures in                             Community, some weight categories may be
different ways ;                                                          excluded from intervention where they are
                                                                          not representative of pigmeat production in
                                                                           that region ;
1 OJ No C 19, 1.3.1971 , p. 38.
2 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2283/67. '                                (b) fixing the buying-in prices and the amount of
3 OT No L 85 , 15.4.1971 , D . 30 .                                        private storage aid;
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   (c) adopting detailed rules for the application of                               Article 2
       this Article, in particular the conditions
       governing the buying-in and storage of the           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
       products covered by the intervention                 following its publication in the Official Journal of the
       measures provided for in Article 3 .'                European Communities.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its ,entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Luxembourg, 14 June 1971 .
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                   The President
                                                                                   M. COINTAT