CELEX: 31974D0451
Language: en
Date: 1974-08-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 9 August 1974 amending the Commission Decision of 26 July 1974 as regards the application in Germany of special intervention measures for barley

10 . 9 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 247/21
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 9 August 1974
              amending the Commission Decision of 26 July 1974 as regards the application
                               in Germany of special intervention measures for barley
                                                (Only the German text is authentic)
                                                           (74/451 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       (a) the holder contracts to keep a specific quantity of
COMMUNITIES,                                                             barley in store from 13 August to 31 December
                                                                          1974 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                 (b) the intervention agency is, at the end of the
                                                                         storage period specified in (a), to grant the holder
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                              of such quantity a daily premium fixed at a
67/fiEC (!) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                      standard rate of 0-0233 unit of account per metric
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­                  ton to cover storage and credit costs.
lation (EEC) No 1996/74 (2), and in particular the
second paragraph of Article 8 and Article 24 thereof ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Having regard to Council Regulation No 174/
67/EEC (3) of 27 June 1967 on special intervention                   The text of Article 2 of the Commission Decision of
measures for cereals, as amended by Regulation (EEC)                 26 July 1974 is replaced by the following :
No 445/68 (4), and in particular Article 1 thereof ;
                                                                     Holders wishing to enter into such contract shall,
Having regard to the communications from the                         before 13 August 1974, make a written application to
Federal Republic of Germany of 13 July and 6 August                  that effect, constituting a firm undertaking, to the
 1974 setting out the particularly difficult situation of            intervention agency specifying the quantity in ques­
holders of barley and requesting authorization to                    tion, which may not be less than 300 metric tons.
apply special intervention measures in respect of
250 000 metric tons of barley ;                                      If the total quantity for which holders wish to contract
                                                                     exceeds the quantity specified in the first paragraph of
Whereas by its Decision of 26 July 1974 the Commis­                  Article 1 , the intervention agency shall allocate the
sion authorized Germany to apply special intervention                quantity to be contracted for in proportion to the
measures in respect of 1 50 000 metric tons of barley ;              quantity proposed by each holder.
whereas the dates provided for in that Decision for
holders of barley to submit applications to the                      The competent agency shall inform the holder before
German intervention agency and from which such                        22 August 1974 of the quantity to which his contract
holders are to undertake to keep barley in store have                will relate .
 proved to be too close at hand ; whereas those dates
should therefore be put back ; whereas this will make                                         Article 3
it necessary to relate the premium to the number of
days rather than to the number of months of storage ;                The third paragraph of Article 4 of the Decision of 26
                                                                     July 1974 is deleted.
"Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                                            Article 4
 ment Committee for Cereals,
                                                                     This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                          Germany.
                            Article 1
 The text of the second paragraph of Article 1 of the                 Done at Brussels, 9 August 1974.
 Commission Decision of 26 July 1974 is replaced by
the following :                                                                                 For the Commission
The operations shall involve the conclusion before 29                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
 August 1974 between the German intervention agency
 and holders of barley of contracts under which :                                           Member of the Commission
 (•) OJ  No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269 / 67 .
 (2) OJ  No L 209, 31 . 7. 1974, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ  No 130, 28 . 6. 1967, p. 2609/67.
 (4) OJ  No L 91 , 12. 4 . 1968 , p. 3 .