CELEX: 31973R2879
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2879/73 of the Council of 22 October 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 234/73 fixing the amounts applicable as compensatory amounts for pigmeat

25 . 10 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 297/3
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2879/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 22 October 1973
               amending Regulation (EEC) No 234/73 fixing the amounts applicable as compen­
                                                  satory amounts for pigmeat
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                             Article 1
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community ;                                              The text of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 234/73
                                                                    is replaced by the following :
 Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the Acces­
 sion of new Member States to the European Economic                     ' 1 . If Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 229/73
 Community and to the European Atomic Energy                            is applied during one or more days in the course
 Community, signed on 22 January 1972, and in parti­                    of the first seventy-five days of any quarter up to 1
 cular Article 62 ( 1 ) of the Act annexed thereto ;                    August, 1 November, 1 February or 1 May, the
                                                                        amount applicable in the following quarter as the
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                    compensatory amount for the products referred to
 Whereas Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No                 in Articles 1 and 2 shall be determined every
 234/73 (-') of 31 January 1973 laying down general                     quarter by reference to the average of the amounts
 rules for the system of compensatory amounts for                       determined during the first seventy-five days of
 pigmeat provides that lower amounts applicable as                      the previous quarter for the cereals included in the
 compensatory amounts shall be fixed wherever such                      quantity of feed grain referred to in Article 1 of
 amounts are applied for feed grain, when its levy is                   Regulation No 133/67/EEC.
 lower than the compensatory amount ;                                    However, if the amount varies by less than 5 %
                                                                         from the amount determined for the previous
 Whereas the possibility of changing these amounts at                   quarter, the latter amount shall remain unchanged .
 the end of each month has led to uncertainty on the
 market in pigmeat which disturbs the flow of trade ;                    2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply
                                                                        to the compensatory amount for products falling
 Whereas the application of these amounts in the first                   under subheading No 15.01 A of the Common
 months since the Accession has shown that it is not                     Customs Tariff'.
 necessary to maintain the monthly fixing ; whereas for
 the purpose of a uniform application of the system                                          Article 2
^the amounts applicable as compensatory amounts
 should therefore be fixed every quarter on the same                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
 date as the sluice-gate prices and the levies ;                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable m all Member
               States .
               Done at Luxembourg, 22 October 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                Ib FREDERIKSEN
 (') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 .
 (-') OJ No L 29 , 1 . 2. 1973 , p . 1 .