CELEX: 31973R0498
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-31
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 498/73 of the Commission of 31 January 1973 on transitional measures for intervention on the market in butter in the new Member States

22. 2. 73                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 49/ 13
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 498/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 31 January 1973
                on transitional measures for intervention on the market in butter in the new Member
                                                                   States
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           resulting from the common organization of the
  COMMUNITIES,                                                             markets ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                       Whereas from 1 January 1973 national measures
  pean Economic Community ;
                                                                           were brought into operation in Denmark and
                                                                           Ireland to ensure that the abovementioned checks
                                                                           are carried out and that the requirements of
  Having regard to the Treaty (*) concerning the
                                                                           Community rules in this field are satisfied ; whereas
  Accession of new Member States to the European
                                                                           it is appropriate in these circumstances to provide,
  Economic Community and the European Atomic
  Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22                               at the request of those two Member States, that
                                                                           from 1 February 1973 , their intervention agencies
 January 1972, and in particular Article 63 of the
  Act (z) annexed thereto, hereinafter called the 'Act' ;                  buy in butter made in Denmark or Ireland on or
                                                                           after 1 January 1973 which has undergone the
                                                                           abovementioned checks ;
 Whereas on 1 Febuary 1973 the rules for interven­
  tion on the market in butter and cream will become                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
  applicable to producers in the new Member States ;                       tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                          Management Committee for Milk and Milk
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 (3) of                        Products ;
  15 Juily 1968 laying down general rules for interven­
 tion on the market in butter and cream , as last                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4 ) and
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 685 /69 (5 ) of 14                                                  Article 1
 April 1969 on detailed rules of application for inter­
                                                                          The Danish and Irish intervention agencies shall,
 vention on the market in butter and cream , as last
                                                                          from 1 February 1973 , buy in butter offered to
 amended by the Act, provide that butter may be                           them :
 bought in only after certain technical measures have
 been taken to ensure, in particular, that the quality                    ( a) which has been produced , on or after 1 January
 and keeping quallity of the butter are satisfactory ;                          1973 , and
 whereas it is stipulated in particular, in Article 4 of                  ( b ) which, before 1 February 1973 , had undergone
 the last-mentioned Regulation, that butter offered to                          the quality cheeks which those Member States
 intervention agencies must have been made during                               instituted at national level in implementation of
 the previous fourteen days and that butter made                                Community measures on the quality and
 during the previous two months may be offered to                               keeping quality of butter.
 the intervention agencies provided that a check was
 carried out within a maximum period of 14 days                                                     Article 2
 following the day on which the butter was made ;                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
Whereas provision should be made for the measures                         following its publication in the Official Journal of
 necessary to facilitate the passage from the existing                   the European Communities.
 arrangements in the new Member States to those                          It shall apply from 1 February 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 .
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                    Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(*)  OJ  No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 .
(2)  OJ  No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14 .
(3 ) OJ  No  L 169 , 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No  L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15 .
(«)  OJ  No  L 90, 15 . 4 . 1969, p. 12 .