CELEX: 31969R0897
Language: en
Date: 1969-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 897/69 of the Council of 13 May 1969 on the general rules to be applied in the event of a substantial rise in pigmeat prices

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                                    REGULATION (EEC) No 897/69 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 13 May 1969
                   on the general rules to be applied in the event of a substantial rise in pigmeat prices
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas, in order to eliminate disturbances or the
                                                                  threat of disturbances on the market resulting from a
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     continuing rise in prices, supply must be increased;
European Economic Community;                                      whereas, to this end, the total or partial suspension of
                                                                  the levy should be allowed; whereas, the products to
Having       regard     to    Council    Regulation     No        be covered by this suspension should be selected in
 121 /67/EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common                       the light of the market situation ;
organisation of the market in pigmeat, as amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 830/68,2 and in particular
the second paragraph of Article 11 thereof;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation No 121 /67/EEC
provides that when a substantial price rise is recorded
on the Community market and this situation is likely              1 . A substantial price rise within the meaning of
to continue, thereby disturbing or threatening to                 Article 11 of Regulation No 121 /67/EEC shall exist
disturb the market, the necessary measures may be                 when, as a result of a general price rise in all regions
taken;                                                            of the Community, the average of prices for pig
                                                                  carcases on the representative markets of the
Whereas a substantial price rise may be ascertained               Community as listed in the Annex to Regulation No
by reference to the level of basic prices for pig                 213/67/EEC is higher than the average of those prices
 carcases and to the development of market prices                 over the preceding period of three years, running
 over a sufficiently representative period on the                 from 1 November to 31 October, and adjusted where
representative Community markets listed in the                    appropriate to take account of cyclic movement in
Annex to Council Regulation No 213/67/EEC3 of 27                  the prices in question, that average being increased by
June 1967 establishing the list of representative                 the difference between it and the average of the basic
                                                                  prices in force during the period in question, taking
markets for pigmeat in the Community, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1705/684;                          into account all alterations in the basic price in
                                                                  relation to that resulting from the average for that
                                                                  period.
Whereas, in assessing whether such a rise will
continue, account should be taken, in particular, of
current trends in the market in young pigs and of                 2.     The substantial price rise is considered to be
surveys and estimates made in pursuance of the                    likely to continue if there is an imbalance between
Council Directive of 27 March 19685 concerning                    supply and demand in pigmeat and in particular if
                                                                  that imbalance is likely to continue on account of:
surveys of pig production to be made by Member
States and the foreseeable trends in market prices for
                                                                  (a) current trends in the number of sows covered and
pig carcases ;
                                                                       in the price of young pigs ;
                                                                  (b) the surveys and estimates made in pursuance of
1  OJ   No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2283/67.                                 the   Council   Directive    of 27   March    1968
2  OJ   No L 151, 30.6.1968, p. 23 .                                   concerning surveys of pig production to be made,
8  OJ   No 135, 30.6.1967, p. 2887/67.                                 by Member States ;
4  OJ   No L 267, 31.10.1968, p. 1.
5  OJ   No L 76, 28J.1968, p. 13.                                 (c) foreseeable trends in market prices for pigmeat.
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                          Article 2                                                    Article 3
1.    When the conditions referred to in the first
paragraph     of   Article     11   of  Regulation    No        The information on which the measures provided for
121/67/EEC are fulfilled, in accordance with the                in Article 2 are based shall be reviewed regularly in
criteria laid down in Article 1 of this Regulation, the         accordance with the procedure provided for in
total or partial suspension of the levy fixed in                Article 25 of Regulation No 121/67/EEC.
pursuance of Article 8 of Regulation No 121 /67/EEC
may be decided upon according to the procedure laid
down in Article 24 of that Regulation.                                                 Article 4
2. The measures provided for in paragraph 1 may
be taken in respect of one or more of the products              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 121/67/EEC           day following its publication in the Official Journal
in the light of the market situation.                           of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Luxembourg, 13 . May 1969.
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                     J. P. BUCHLER