CELEX: 31973D0308
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 31 July 1973 concerning the additional drying and transport of certain cereals held by the German intervention agency

13 . 10 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 286/37
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 31 July 1973
             concerning the additional drying and transport of certain cereals held by the
                                                  German intervention agency
                                                           (73/308 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        July 1971 , fixing the procedure and conditions for the
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         taking over of cereals by intervention agencies, as last
                                                                      amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1422/72 (4) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                  Whereas consequently the humidity content of 19 790
                                                                      metric tons of barley and rye should be reduced to a
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          level below 1 6 % before transporting it to long term
787/ 69 (^ of 22 April 1969 on the financing of inter­                warehouses ;
vention costs on the internal market in cereals and
rice, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
2092/70 (2), and in particular Article 4 ( 1 ) (d) and (g)            are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
thereof ;                                                             ment Committee for Cereals,
Whereas on 18 July 1973 the Federal Republic of
Germany requested the Commission to acknowledge                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
that it was necessary for the German intervention
agency to effect transport of 240 210 metric tons of                                              Article 1
common wheat, barley and rye and to effect additional
drying and transport of 1 9 790 metric tons of barley                 For the purposes of Regulation (EEC) No 787/69 it is
and rye ;                                                             established that the transport of 240 210 metric tons
                                                                      of common wheat, barley and rye, and the additional
Whereas in view of the potential size of the 1973                     drying and transport of 19 790 tons of barley and rye,
harvest it is foreseeable that in Federal Germany                     effected by the German intervention agency between
considerable quantities of cereals will be offered for                25 July 1973 and 30 September 1973 , were necessary.
intervention during the first months of the marketing
year ;                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas in order to store these cereals from the new
                                                                      This decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
harvest the German intervention agency will have to
                                                                      Germany.
make room in warehouses by transferring 260 000
metric tons of cereals held from the previous harvest ;
Whereas the storage facilities of the German interven­                 Done at Brussels, 31 July 1973 .
tion agency are insufficient to ensure the proper pres­
ervation for a relatively long period of cereals whose                                               For the Commission
humidity content is in conformity with the level laid                                                     Tin- President
down in the (second indent) of Article 2 (2) of
Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1492/71 (3 ) of 13                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 105 , 2 . 5 . 1969 , p . 4 .
(-') Ol No L 232, 21 . It ). 1970 , p . 3 .
(3 ) OJ No L 157 , 14 . 7 . 1971 , p . 18 .                            (■<) OJ No 1 . 151 , y 7 . 1972 , p . I 5 .