Regulation (EEC) No 1261/71 of the Council of 15 June 1971 on exceptional measures to be taken in different agricultural sectors arising from health protection problems

REGULATION (EEC) No 1261/71 OF THE COUNCIL  of 15 June 1971  on exceptional measures to be taken in different agricultural sectors arising from health protection problems
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and 43 thereof;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament 1;
Whereas experience has shown, in particular in respect of animal products covered by market organisation, the need to have recourse to exceptional measures, justifiable on the grounds of protection of animal health and life ; whereas such measures are often such as to impede the functioning of the mechanism established under the common agricultural policy and, thus to hinder the fulfilment of the aims of Article 39 of the Treaty ; whereas that is particularly so when those measures involve a restriction on the free movement of goods within the Community;
Whereas it is clear that in most cases the most effective and financially the least onerous solution consists in applying special measures which however create, through their being carried out autonomously by Member States, a conflict with Community provisions;
Whereas provisions enabling these disadvantages to be remedied were introduced, for the above-mentioned reasons, in Council Regulation No 121/67/EEC 2 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation of the market in pigmeat, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 777/71, 3 and in Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 4 of 27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1253/70 5 ; whereas for the same reasons provisions for the other sectors of animal products must be laid down;
Whereas in achieving this aim it is necessary to provide in all the sectors concerned for a procedure for close co-operation between Member States and the Commission and for the rapid carrying out of exceptional measures of market support to remedy the situation;