CELEX: 31974R0576
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 576/74 of the Commission of 12 March 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 on the disposal of butter at a reduced price to certain Community processing undertakings

No L 70/24                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              13 . 3 . 74
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 576/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 12 March 1974
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 on the disposal of butter at a reduced
                                 price to certain Community processing undertakings
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                         Article 1
Economic Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       The following sentence is added to the last subpara­
804/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                graph of Article 6 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last              1259/72 :
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 419/74 (2), and in
particular Article 6 (7) thereof ;                                      'However, the processing referred to in (a) and (b)
                                                                        must be completed within two months of the day
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            referred to above . .
974/71 (3) of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of
conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture
following the temporary widening of the margins of                                            Article 2
fluctuation   for the      currencies      of certain Member
States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     In Article 20 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 the
3450/73 (4), and in particular Article 6 thereof ;                 coefficients '0*3' and '0-6' are replaced by the coeffi­
                                                                   cients '0-4' and '0-8' respectively.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No
1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of butter
at a reduced price to certain Community processing                                            Article 3
undertakings, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 561 /74 (6), provides that to take account of the               In footnote (4) to Part 5 of Annex I to Commission
value of the products concerned the monetary                       Regulation (EEC) No 21 8/74 (7) of 25 January 1974
compensatory amounts applicable to sales of butter                 fixing the monetary compensatory amounts and
sold under that Regulation are to be multiplied by                 certain rates for their application, as last amended by
certain coefficients ; whereas those coefficients should           Regulation No 554/74 (8), the coefficients '0-3' and
be adjusted in order to take account of the increase in            '0-6' in the indent referring to Regulation (EEC) No
the minimum price fixed for butter sold under that                  1259/72 are replaced by the coefficients '0-4' and '0-8'
Regulation ;                                                       respectively.
Whereas the said Regulation provides that butter must
be processed into finished products withip six months                                         Article 4
of the day of removal from storage ; whereas it is
necessary that within that period a time limit should              This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 March
be set for concentrating and denaturing the butter ;                1974.
whereas having regard to the processing capacity of
the industry that the time limit may be set at two                 However, where the person concerned so requests
 months ;                                                          Article 1 shall not apply, in respect of obligations
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation               arising under contracts awarded pursuant to individual
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                  invitations to tender organized before the date of entry
 ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                        into force of this Regulation .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 12 March 1974.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (>) OJ No  L  148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 .
 (2) OJ No  L 49, 21 . 2. 1974, p. 2.
 (J) OJ No  L  106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
 (<) OJ No  L 353, 22. 12. 1973, p. 25.
 (5) OJ No  L  139, 17 . 6. 1972, p. 18 .                           (7) OJ No L 24, 28 . 1 . 1974, p. 1 .
 (6) OJ No  L 67, 9 . 3 . 1974, p . 17.                             (8) OJ No L 68 , 11 . 3 . 1974, p. 1 .