CELEX: 31977D0570
Language: en
Date: 1977-08-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 24 August 1977 authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany to store outside its territory beef held by its intervention agency

No L 224/ 12                         Official Journal of the European Communities                            2. 9. 77
                                                            II
                                        (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                 COMMISSION
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 24 August 1977
              authorizing the Federal Republic of Germany to store outside its territory beef
                                             held by its intervention agency
                                            (Only the German text is authentic)
                                                       (77/570/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  give prior authorization ; whereas the first Decision
COMMUNITIES,                                                    must be so drawn as to ensure that the change-over to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           the system provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community,                                             1055/77 takes place without interruption to the
                                                                normal flow of the operations in question ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization               Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
of the market in beef and veal (!), as last amended by          are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Regulation (EEC) No 425/77(2),                                  ment Committee for Beef and Veal,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1055/77 of 17 May 1977 on the storage and move­                 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
ment of products bought in by an intervention
agency (3), and in particular Articles 4 and 6 thereof,                                Article 1
Whereas Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1055/77          The Federal Republic of Germany is hereby autho­
provides that products bought in pursuant to Commu­             rized to place in storage, between 1 August and 30
nity provisions may be stored by intervention agencies          September 1977 :
outside the territory of the Member State within                — 4 500 tonnes of unboned frozen beef in Switzer­
whose jurisdiction they fall only if such agencies have             land,
obtained prior authorization ; whereas the Federal
                                                                — 3 000 tonnes of unboned frozen beef in Austria.
Republic of Germany has made an application to
store in Austria and Switzerland during August and
September 1977 7 500 tonnes of unboned beef held                                       Article 2
by its intervention agency ; whereas storage of these           This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
products within the Community is difficult, due in              Germany.
particular to the current stock position in the Member
States near to the place where the products are taken
over ; whereas, moreover, storage facilities are available      Done at Brussels, 24 August 1977.
at lower cost in Switzerland ; whereas this application
should therefore be approved ;                                                           For the Commission
Whereas, as regards consignments transported                                              Finn GUNDELACH
between 1 August 1977 and the date of this Decision,
it has been impossible for administrative reasons to                                         Vice-President
(») OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 24.
(2) OJ No L 61 , 5. 3. 1977, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 128, 24. 5. 1977, p. 1 .