CELEX: 31974D0416
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 15 July 1974 concerning the additional drying of 63 000 metric tons of common wheat taken over by the Dutch intervention agency during the 1973/74 marketing year

No L 221 /24                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                12 . 8 . 74
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 15 July 1974
               concerning the additional drying of 63 000 metric tons of common wheat taken over by
                           the Dutch intervention agency during the 1973/74 marketing year
                                               (Only the Dutch text is authentic)
                                                        (74/416/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    be reduced from 16 to 13-5 % in order to permit its
COMMUNITIES ,                                                     storage for a relatively long period without risk of
                                                                  impairing its quality ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community ;                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
                                                                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Management Committee for Cereals,
787/69 ( 1 ) of 22 April 1969 on the financing of
intervention expenditure in respect of the domestic
market in cereals and rice, as last amended by                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Regulation (EEC ) No 330/74 (2), and in particular
Article 4 ( 1 ) (d );                                                                     Article 1
Having regard to the request from the Kingdom of                   For the purposes of Regulation (EEC) No 787/69, it
the Netherlands addressed to the Commission on                     is established that the additional drying to 13-5 % of
7 June 1974;                                                       63 000 metric tons of common wheat by the
                                                                   Netherlands intervention agency between 1 June
Whereas the Netherlands intervention agency holds                  1974 and 31 August 1974 is necessary.
63 000 metric tons of common wheat which could
only have been disposed of in the short term in the
form of denatured wheat for animal feed ; whereas                                         Article 2
because the denaturing premium was fixed at zero, it
was not possible to consider offering this common                  This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the
wheat for sale on the market in accordance with the                Netherlands .
provisions of Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
376/70 (3 );
                                                                   Done at Brussels, 15 July 1974.
Whereas in order to allow' for storage of cereals from
the 1974 harvest, the Netherlands intervention agency
must engage in the transfer of the said 63 000 metric                                           For the Commission
tons of common wheat to warehouses which are not
                                                                                                    The President
equipped with ventilation equipment; whereas the
moisture content of this common wheat should then                                              Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(x) OJ No L 105, 2. 5 . 1969, p. 4.
(2) OJ No L 37, 9 . 2 . 1974, p. 5 .
 (3) OJ No L 47, 28 . 2. 1970, p. 49.