CELEX: 31978R0718
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 718/78 of 7 April 1978 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2054/76 on the sale to non-member countries of skimmed-milk powder held by intervention agencies and intended for use as feed

No L 94 / 28                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                8 . 4 . 78
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 718/78
                                                        of 7 April 1978
              amending Regulation ( EEC) No 2054/ 76 on the sale to non-member countries of
              skimmed-milk powder held by intervention agencies and intended for use as
                                                              feed
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     account should be taken of the extension of the
COMMUNITIES ,                                                      1 977/78 milk year ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Economic Community,                                                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                   ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
804/ 68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization
of the market in milk and milk products ( ! ), as last             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2 ), and in
particular Article 7 ( 5) thereof,                                                             Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2054/76                     Regulation (EEC) No 2054/76 is hereby amended as
of 19 August 1976 on the sale for export to non-­                  follows :
member countries of skimmed-milk powder held by                    1 . In Article 3 ( 1 ), the amount ' 11 units of account'
intervention agencies and intended for use as feed (3),                shall to read ' 10 units of account'.
as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2380/77 (4),                   The second subparagraph of Article 3 (3) is deleted.
provides for the sale of skimmed-milk powder in
public storage at a price equal to the purchase price              2. In the first subparagraph of Article 4 (2), the words
applied by the intervention agency, reduced by 1 1                     'before 1 April 1978 ' are a amended to read 'before
units of account per 100 kilograms ;                                   the end of the 1977/78 milk year'.
                                                                       In the first subparagraph of Article 4 (3), the
Whereas , in order to take account of the trend on the                 amount ' 15 units of account' shall read ' 13 units of
world skimmed-milk powder market, the price reduc­                     account'.
tion should be fixed at 10 units of account and the
amount of the security and the coefficient applicable              3 . In Article 14a, the coefficient :
to the monetary compensatory amounts determined                        — '0 86' in the first subparagraph shall read '0.89',
accordingly ;                                                          — ' 1-47' in the second subparagraph shall read
                                                                           ' 1.53 '.
Whereas, moreover, the exports referred to in Regula­
tion (EEC) No 2054/76 fall within the undertakings                                             Article 2
made by the Community in the context of the
General Agreement of tariffs and trade (GATT) and as               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
a result could only be carried out until 10 November               following its publication in the Official Journal of
1978 ; whereas, following an extension in this context,            the European Communities.
it is no longer necessary to limit the period of validity          It shall not apply to quantities of skimmed-milk
of the export licence to that date ;
                                                                   powder which are the subject of buying-in contracts
Whereas as regards the time limit for taking over                  concluded with the intervention agency before that
referred to in Article 4 (2) of the said Regulation ,              date .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 7 April 1978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                     Vice-President
(!)  OJ No L  148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 .
(2 ) OJ No L  303 , 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No L  228 , 20 . 8 . 1976, p. 17 .
(4 ) OJ No L  277,  29 . 10 . 1977, p . 39,