CELEX: 31978R0996
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 996/78 of 12 May 1978 continuing for the 1978/79 marketing year the premium for the slaughter of certain adult bovine animals provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 870/77

18 . 5. 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 130/3
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 996/78
                                                       of 12 May 1978
              continuing (or the 1978/79 marketing year the premium for the slaughter of
                  certain adult bovine animals provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 870/77
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      term prospects on the Community beef and veal
COMMUNITIES,                                                      market, there is a risk that their incomes may drop ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas this objective may be achieved by extending
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                  the system of premiums for the slaughter of certain
thereof,                                                         adult bovine animals provided for in Council Regula­
                                                                  tion (EEC) No 870/77 of 26 April 1977 authorizing
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                the Member States to grant a premium for the
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­              slaughter of certain adult bovine animals for slaughter
ment (*),                                                        during the 1977/78 marketing year (5),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Social Committee (2),
Whereas the intervention price applicable in the beef                                     Article 1
and veal sector for the 1978/79 marketing year was               The application of the provisions of Regulation (EEC)
fixed at a level below that resulting from the imple­             No    870/77 shall be continued for the        1978/79
mentation of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC)                marketing year.
No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in beef and veal (3), as last amended                                  Article 2
by Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (4); whereas the
Member States should therefore be authorized to grant             This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 May
further aid to stock-farmers since, in the light of short­        1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 12 May 1978 .
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                               The President
                                                                               P. DALSAGER
(») OJ  No C  85, 10 . 4. 1978 , p. 31 .
(2) OJ  No C  101 , 26. 4. 1978 , p. 10.
(') OJ  No L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
(4) OJ  No L  61 , 5. 3. 1977, p. 1 .                             (5) OJ No L 106, 29 . 4. 1977, p. 14.