CELEX: 31973D0222
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 June 1973 authorizing the French Republic to apply special intervention measures for rye

6 . 8 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 217/21
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 20 June 1973
                     authorizing the French Republic to apply special intervention measures for rye
                                                  (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                            (73/222/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        season ; and whereas because the compensatory
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                         allowance cannot, overall, cover the difference in
                                                                       prices between the last season and the new season,
                                                                      the stockholders of rye of bread-making quality will
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 be inclined to deliver their stock to the intervention
 Economic Community ;                                                  agencies ;
Having regard to Council              Regulation No 120/67/
 EEC ( ] ) of 13 June 1967            establishing a common           Whereas, if the intervention agency in France is not to
 market for cereals , as last        amended by Regulation             be obliged to purchase, before the end of the season,
 (EEC) No 1346/73 ( 2), and            in particular Article 8 ,      excessive amounts of rye of bread-making quality
 second paragraph thereof ;                                           compared with the amount marketed , it will be
                                                                      necessary to grant a lump-sum allowance to the
                                                                      stockholders of rye of bread-making quality in this
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 174/67/                       Member State in order to encourage them to retain
EEC (3) of 27 June 1967 on special intervention                       their stocks until 31 July 1973 ;
 measures for cereals , as amended by Regulation
 (EEC) No 445/68 (4), and in particular Article 1
thereof ;                                                             Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                      are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management
                                                                      Committee for Cereals ;
Having regard to the request of the French Republic,
made to the Commission on 7 June 1973 , in which
this Member State points out the particularly difficult
situation of its nationals holding stocks of rye of
bread-making quality at the end of the 1972/73                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
season because of the implementation of the new
method for determining the price of rye for the
1973/74 season, and requests that special intervention
measures be applied ;                                                                           Article 1
                                                                      In pursuance of the provisions of Article 1 of
Whereas the stock of rye of bread-making quality                      Council Regulation No 174/67/EEC, the intervention
required by the French milling trade to ensure the                    agency of the French Republic may apply special
normal functioning of trade between one season and                    measures for rye.
the next is generally about 2 000 metric tons ;
                                                                      These measures consist of granting a lump-sum
Whereas, because a single intervention price has been                 allowance of 2-75 units of account per metric ton in
fixed for rye from 1 August 1973 , the compensatory                   respect of a total quantity not exceeding 2 000 metric
 allowance for rye of bread-making quality at the                    tons to stockholders whose stocks of rye of bread-mak­
end of the 1972/73 season will be far less than the
                                                                     ing quality comply with the conditions laid down in
corresponding allowance at the end of the preceding                   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1554/73 (5) of 7 June
                                                                      1973 on the conditions for granting compensatory
                                                                      allowances for common wheat, rye of bread-making
i 1) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67.
(2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 9.
(3) OJ No L 130, 28 . 6. 1967, p . 2609/67.
(4) OT No L 91 , 12. 4. 1968 , D. 3 .                                 (5) OJ No L 156 , 13 . 6. 1973 , p. 13 .
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quality and maize in stock at the end of the 1972/73                                Article 3
season .
                                                             This Decision is addressed to the French Republic .
                       Article 2                             Done at Brussels , 20 June 1973 .
                                                                                             For the Commission
The French Republic shall keep the Commission
                                                                                                The President
informed of the progress of the operations provided
for in this Decision .                                                                     François-Xavier ORTOLI