CELEX: 31974R2502
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-02 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2502/74 of the Council of 2 October 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1967/74 as regards the maximum amounts of the premiums for the orderly marketing of certain adult bovine animals for slaughter and introducing a system of premiums for the retention of cattle

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                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2502/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 2 October 1974
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 1967/74 as regards the maximum amounts of
              the premiums for the orderly marketing of certain adult bovine animals for
                slaughter and introducing a system of premiums for the retention of cattle
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                            'The premium shall not exceed the following
COMMUNITIES,                                                           amounts :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                   month                      units of account per head
                                                                       August 1974                            20
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           September 1974                         30
805/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                     October 1974                           42
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended                   November 1974                          42
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 855/74 (2), and in particular                 December 1974                          52-50
Article 22a (2) thereof ;                                              January 1975                           63
                                                                       February 1975                          73-50 .'
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas a system of premiums for the orderly
marketing of adult bovine animals for slaughter was
introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 1 967/74 (3);
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas in order to make the said system more effec­
tive, the maximum amounts of the premium should
be increased ;
                                                                  The Member States authorized not to implement
Whereas, having regard to the present day structure of             Articles 1 to 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1353/73 in the
holdings in the regions for which Member States are                regions specified in Article 5 of the said Regulation
authorized not to implement the premium for the                    may, instead of the premium provided for in Article 1
conversion of dairy cow herds to meat production,                  of Regulation (EEC) No 1967/74, grant at the request
introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 1353/73 (4), the                 of the producer, whether or not he belongs to a
said Member States should be enabled to grant a                    producers' association, in these regions, a single cattle
single cattle retention premium in the regions referred            retention premium for each cow or in-calf heifer up
to, instead of the premium introduced by Regulation                to a maximum of 10 head per holding, retained on
(EEC) No 1967/74 ;                                                 holdings having not more than 20 bovine animals.
Whereas it is necessary to limit the granting of this
single premium to producers not having more than 20
bovine animals ;
Whereas the amount of this premium should be fixed                                         Article 3
at a level adequate to constitute an inducement
towards keeping cows or in-calf heifers on the hold­
ings for a relatively long period ;                                1 . The amount of the single premium provided for
Whereas, the granting of the premium should,                       in Article 2 shall be 33 units of account per head. It
however, be limited to a maximum of 10 head per                    shall be payable in two equal instalments, the first
holding,                                                           being considered as an advance to the beneficiary.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                      2. In order to be eligible for the premium, each
                                                                   producer must show evidence to the satisfaction of the
                            Article 1                              competent authority that, at the time of lodging the
                                                                   request under Article 2, he retains no more than 20
The text of the second paragraph of Article 2 (2) of               bovine animals.
Regulation No 1967/74 shall be replaced by the
following :
                                                                   3 . Moreover, the granting of the premium shall be
(!) OJ  No  L 148,  28.  6. 1968, p. 24.                           subject to an undertaking by the producer in writing
(2) OJ  No  L 195,  18 . 7. 1974, p. 14.
(3) OJ  No  L 206,  27.  7. 1974, p. 1.                            to retain on the holding farmed at the date when the
(4) OJ  No  L 141 , 28.  5. 1973, p. 18 .                          request is lodged, for a period of at least seven months
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from such date, the cows or in-calf heifers for which                               Article 4
he has requested that a premium be granted.                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
4. Article 4 (2) (a) (c) and (i) and Article 5 of Regula­    publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                              Communities.
tion (EEC) No 1967/74 shall apply to the single
premium provided for in Article 2.                            It shall apply from 7 October 1974.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Luxembourg, 2 October 1974.
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                           Ch . BONNET