CELEX: 31974D0468
Language: en
Date: 1974-09-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 5 September 1974 amending the Commission Decision of 8 August 1974 authorizing certain Member States to apply special intervention measures for common wheat

No L 250/36                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                13 . 9 . 74
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 5 September 1974
                amending the Commission Decision of 8 August 1974 authorizing certain
                    Member States to apply special intervention measures for common wheat
                                     (Only the Dutch , French and German texts are authentic)
                                                             (74/468/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             intervention agency and the holders of common
COMMUNITIES,                                                               wheat in terms of which :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      (a) the holders shall undertake to keep in store
Economic Community ;                                                            from a date between 1 and 18 September 1974,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                                     to be fixed by the intervention agency, until 31
67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                              January 1975 a given quantity of soft wheat ;
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­                    (b) the intervention agency shall grant to the
lation (EEC) No 1 996/74 (2) and in particular the                              holders of that quantity, at the end of the
second paragraph of Article 8 and Article 24 thereof ;                          period laid down in (a), a daily premium,
                                                                                intended to cover storage and credit costs,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 174/                                     fixed contractually at 0-0233 unit of account
67/EEC (3) of 27 June 1967 on special intervention                              per metric ton.' '
measures for cereals, as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 445/68 (4), and in particular Article 1                                                Article 2
thereof ;
                                                                      Article 2 of the Decision of 8 August 1974 is
Having regard to the communication from the King­                     amended as follows :
doms of the Netherlands, Belgium, the Grand Duchy                     The first paragraph is replaced by the following text :
of Luxembourg and from the Federal Republic of
                                                                           ' Holders who wish to enter into such an under­
Germany which reached the Commission on 23, 25
and 30 July 1974 respectively stating the particularly                     taking must make a written application,
difficult situation for holders of common wheat at the                     amounting to a firm undertaking, to the interven­
start of the new marketing year and including requests                   , tion agency before the date fixed by the latter for
for special intervention measures for common wheat ;                       the beginning of the period of storage . They must
                                                                           give in this application an indication of the quan­
Whereas the Commission by its Decision of 8 August                          tity in question which may not be less than 200
 1974 authorized         the Member States          concerned  to           metric tons .'
apply special intervention measures involving a total
quantity of 865 000 metric tons of common wheat ;                     The third paragraph is replaced by the following text ;
whereas the dates specified in the above Decision for                      'The competent intervention agency shall commu­
the submission of applications by the holders of                            nicate to the holder, twenty eight days at the latest
common wheat to the intervention agency of the                              after the date fixed for the beginning of the period
Member State concerned and for the undertaking to                           of storage, the quantity which will be subject to
keep the grain in stock appear to be too close that                         the undertaking.'
there is need to extend the dates at first allowed ;
                                                                                                Article J
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                     This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the
 ment Committee for Cereals,                                          Netherlands, Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxem­
                                                                      bourg and the Federal Republic of Germany.
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                               Article 1
                                                                      Done at Brussels, 5 September 1974.
The second paragraph of Article 1 of the Decision of                                               For the Commission
 8 August 1974 is replaced by the following text.:                                                     The President
      'These operations shall involve the conclusion
       before 23 October 1974 of contracts between the                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (M   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 .