CELEX: 31975D0028
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-19 00:00:00
Title: 75/28/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 December 1974 on the sale of preserved beef to certain categories of consumer

10 . 1 . 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 6/39
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 19 December 1974
                             on the sale of preserved beef to certain categories of consumer
                                                             (75/28 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         vention agency should be released from storage at a
COMMUNITIES,                                                            price fixed in advance as provided in Commission
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 216/69 (7) of 4 February 1969 on
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   detailed rules of application for the disposal of frozen
 Economic Community ;
                                                                        beef and veal bought in by intervention agencies ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
 805/68 ( J ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                   are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended                    ment Committee for Beef and Veal,
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 855/74 (2), and in particular
Articles 7 (3) and 22a (3) thereof ;
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1856/74 (3) of
 16 July 1974 authorized the Member States to grant                                             Article 1
aids to enable certain categories of consumer to
purchase beef at reduced prices ; whereas the Commis­                  Member States are hereby authorized to grant the aids
sion Decision of 31 July 1974 (4) provided that such                    provided for in the Commission Decision of 31 July
aids may be granted only in respect of fresh, chilled or                1974 in respect also of the sale of preserved meat
frozen meat ;                                                           obtained from intervention stocks .
Whereas it has been found that there are technical
                                                                                                Article 2
difficulties in applying these measures in certain
regions of the Community ; whereas these difficulties                   1 . For the purposes of sale as provided in Article 1 ,
can be overcome if Member States are authorized to                     there shall be made available to the French Republic
grant aids also for the purchase of preserved meat ;                   at a price of 275-64 units of account per 100 kg, 336
                                                                       metric tons of preserved meat held by the French
Whereas the processing into preserved products of                       intervention agency and satisfying the requirements of
meat bought-in in accordance with Article 6(1 ) of                     Article 3(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1295/74.
Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 is provided for, as part of
the arrangements for intervention on the market in                     2. The provisions of Articles 1 to 5 and 1 5 of Regu­
beef, in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1295/74 (5)                    lation (EEC) No 216/69 shall apply.
of 22 May 1974 on the processing of beef bought in
by intervention agencies, as last amended by Regula­                                            Article 3
tion (EEC) No 2777/74 (6) ;                                            This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Whereas, in order to make it easier to carry out the
action provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1856/74
                                                                        Done at Brussels, 19 December 1974.
with a view to benefiting equally all consumers who
receive social welfare benefits in a Member State
                                                                                                  For the Commission
which makes use of the authorization, provision
should be made to enable the French Republic to                                                         The President
obtain preserved beef ; whereas to this end a specified
quantity of preserved meat held by the French inter­                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(!)  OJ   No  L 148 , 29 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24.
(2)  OJ   No  L 195,  18 . 7 . 1974,  p. 14.
(3)  OJ   No  L 195,  18 . 7.  1974,  p. 15 .
(4)  OJ   No  L 223 , 13 . 8 . 1974,  p. 15 .
(5)  OJ   No  L 140 , 23 . 5.  1974,  p. 47.
(6) OJ    No  L 294,  1 . 11 . 1974,  p. 72.                           (7) OJ No L 28 , 5. 2. 1969 , p. 10 .