Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 of the Council of 19 December 1972 amending Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 laying down general rules for intervention on the market in butter and cream

REGULATION (EEC) No 2714/72 OF THE COUNCIL of 19 December 1972 amending Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 laying down general rules for intervention on the market in butter and cream
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty concerning the Accession of the new Member States to the European Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community 1 signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 153 of the Act 2 annexed thereto;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 3 of 27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1411/71, 4 and in particular Article 6 (6) thereof;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
Whereas Article 30 of the Act provides for the adaptations to the acts listed in Annex II made necessary by the Accession to be drawn up in conformity with the guidelines set out in that Annex;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 5 of 15 July 1968, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1075/71, 6 prescribes that intervention measures shall only apply to butter classified in the Member States as to quality ; whereas intervention thus concerns butter of which the butterfat content, by weight, in compliance with national laws, is at least 82 %;
Whereas, at the present time, more than 90 % of the butter produced in the United Kingdom and in Ireland has a 80 % minimum butterfat content, by weight ; whereas, for that reason, it has been provided for under II A (d), of Annex II of the afore-mentioned Act, that Article 1 (3) (a) and Article 8 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 must be supplemented by the definition of the butter produced in each new Member State to which intervention may apply, in order to make this butter satisfy the conditions corresponding to those applicable to butter to which intervention may at present apply in the Community ; whereas, at this juncture Article 1 of the aforesaid Regulation should be redrafted;