CELEX: 31972R2823
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2823/72 of the Council of 28 December 1972 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1653/72 for the purpose of fixing, for the 1972/73 marketing year, the guide prices for calves and adult bovine animals applicable in the new Member States

30                               Official Journal of the European Communities
31.12.72                         Official Journal of the European Communities                      No L 298/3
                       REGULATION (EEC) No 2823/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                              of 28 December 1972
            amending Regulation (EEC) No 1653/72 for the purpose of fixing, for the
            1972/73 marketing year, the guide prices for calves and adult bovine animals
                                      applicable in the new Member States
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                       Whereas pursuant to Article 3 of Council
TIES,                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 805/683 of 27 June 1968
                                                           on the common organisation of the market
Having regard to the Treaty1 concerning the                in beef and veal as last amended by the Act,4
accession of new Member States to the Euro­
                                                           the guide prices are to be fixed with particular
pean Economic Community and to the European                reference to future trends in beef and veal
Atomic Energy Community signed on 22 Janu­                 production and consumption, and to the
ary 1972, and in particular Article 153 of the             situation on the market in milk and milk
Act annexed thereto ;                                      products;
Having regard to the proposal from the Com­                Whereas applying the foregoing criteria, a
mission ;                                                  uniform price should be fixed for Ireland and
Whereas the guide prices for calves and adult              the United Kingdom and the price for Denmark
bovine animals for the 1972/1973 marketing                 should be fixed at the Community level;
year, applicable from 15 September 1972,
were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1653/722;
whereas following the enlargement of the                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community the guide prices applicable in the
new Member States must be inserted in this
Regulation;                                                                      Article 1
Whereas Article 51 (2) of the Act provides that,
before the first move towards price alignment,             The following subparagraph is added to
the prices to be applied in each new Member                Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1653/72:
State shall be fixed in accordance with the
                                                               'However the guide prices applicable in
rules provided for in the common organisation                  Ireland and in the United Kingdom of
of the market in the sector in question at a                   Great Britain and Northern Ireland shall be:
level which allows producers in that sector to
obtain returns equivalent to those obtained                                                   Units of Account
under the previous national system; whereas,                                                    per 100 kg
however, Article 51 (3) provides that, in                                                        liveweight
respect of the United Kingdom, those prices shall
be fixed at a level such that the application of               Calves                                83*0
the Community rules results in a level of                      Adult bovine animals                 67-0'
market prices comparable with the level
recorded    in   the    Member       State  concerned
during a representative period preceding the                                     Article 2
implementation of the Community rules;
Whereas for beef and veal these provisions                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
apply to the guide prices for calves and adult             of its publication in the Official Journal of the
bovine animals, pursuant to Articles 51 (1) and            European Communities.
90 of the Act;                                             It shall apply from 1 February 1973 .
1  OJ No L 73 , 27.3.1972, p. 5.                           3  OJ No L 148, 28.6.1968 , p. 24.
2  OJ No L 174, 1.8.1972, p. 55 .                          4  OJ No L 73, 27.3.1972, p. 72.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States .
Done at Brussels, 28 December 1972.
                                                        For the Council
                                                         The President
                                                         P. LARDINOIS