CELEX: 31977D0571
Language: en
Date: 1977-08-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 24 August 1977 authorizing Ireland to store outside its territory beef held by its intervention agency

2. 9 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 224/ 13
                                              COMMISSION DECISION
                                                  of 24 August 1977
               authorizing Ireland to store outside its territory beef held by its intervention
                                                        agency
                                           (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                     (77/571 /EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                must be so drawn as to ensure that the change-over to
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  the system provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                1055/77 takes place without interruption to the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         normal flow of the operations in question ;
 Economic Community,
                                                               Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization             ment Committee for Beef and Veal,
 of the market in beef and veal ('), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (2),
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1055/77 of 17 May 1977 on the storage and move­                                        Article 1
 ment of products bought in by an intervention
 agency (3), and in particular Articles 4 and 6 thereof,        1 . Ireland is hereby authorized to place in storage
                                                               between 1 August and 30 September 1977 :
Whereas Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1055/77
 provides that products bought in pursuant to Commu­           — 2 500 tonnes of frozen beef, unboned, in the
 nity provisions may be stored by intervention agencies             United Kingdom,
 outside the territory of the Member State within              — 3 000 tonnes of frozen beef, boned, in the United
whose jurisdiction they fall only if such agencies have             Kingdom, and
obtained prior authorization ; whereas Ireland has             — 2 000 tonnes of frozen beef, unboned, in the
applied for authorization to place in storage during                Benelux countries and in Northern France.
August and September 1977, in other Member States,
a total quantity of 7 500 tonnes of beef held by its           2. The Irish intervention agency shall inform the
intervention agency ;                                          intervention agencies of the Member States on whose
                                                               territory the beef is stored of the location and quantity
Whereas, having regard to storage capacities in Ireland        of its stocks on such territory and of any movements
and storage possibilities in the United Kingdom, the           of such stocks.
 Benelux countries and Northern France, this applica­
tion should be approved ;                                                               Article 2
Whereas it is necessary that the intervention agency of        This Decision is addressed to Ireland.
the Member State on whose territory storage takes
place be informed as to the location and quantity of
the stocks of products held by another intervention            Done at Brussels, 24 August 1977.
agency on its territory ;
                                                                                          For the Commission
Whereas, as regards consignments transported
between 1 August 1977 and the date of this Decision,                                       Finn GUNDELACH
it has been impossible for administrative reasons to
give prior authorization, whereas this first Decision                                         Vice-President
(i) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
(2) OJ No L 61 , 5. 3. 1977, p. 1 .
M OJ No L 128, 24. 5. 1977, p. 1 .