CELEX: 31978R1679
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1679/78 of 14 July 1978 authorizing the German intervention agency to sell forequarters of bovine animals for processing into preserves with a view to constituting security stocks

18 . 7 . 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 193 /9
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1679/78
                                                          of 14 July 1978
               authorizing the German intervention agency to sell forequarters of bovine
                animals for processing into preserves with a view to constituting security stocks
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     be authorized to sell up to 10 000 tonnes of fresh or
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       refrigerated forequarters, which it has purchased under
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 .
 Economic Community,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                               Article 2
 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
 of the market in beef and veal (*), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2), and in particular                  1 . The products specified in Article 1 shall be sold
 Article 7 (3) thereof,                                             only to the German public authorities and shall be
                                                                    processed into preserves with a view to constituting
 Whereas for strategic reasons the Federal Republic of              security stocks for the Land of Berlin.
 Germany has safety stocks of certain foodstuffs ;
 whereas these include beef preserves ;
                                                                    2. The selling price of the products specified in
 Whereas, moreover, substantial purchases by the inter­             Article 1 shall be equal to the buying-in price of the
 vention agency are a feature of the current situation              carcases or half-carcases, multiplied by 0-78 .
 on the beef and veal market in the Federal Republic
 of Germany ; whereas in these circumstances the
 immediate utilization of part of the meat thus bought              3.     For the purposes of this Regulation 'forequarters'
 in for processing into the abovementioned preserves                shall mean the front part of the half-carcase
 provides a useful outlet for the meat in question ;                comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and
 whereas, therefore, the sale of this meat should be                shoulder and cut straight at the eighth rib, with the
                                                                    flank and breast attached .
 authorized before it is placed in stock, at a price equal
 to the buying-in price, with a view to processing it
 into preserves in order to constitute security stocks for
 the Land of Berlin in the Federal Republic of                                              Article 3
 Germany ;
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation               The Federal Republic of Germany shall notify the
 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­                  Commission of the measures taken to implement this
 ment Committee for Beef and Veal ,                                 Regulation .
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                            Article 4
                           Article 1
 From 1 August 1978 to the end of the 1978/79                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
 marketing year the German intervention agency shall                1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 14 July 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President
0 ) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 24.
(2) OJ No L 61 , 5. 3 . 1977, p . 1 .