31967R0174

Official Journal of the European Communities 141

28.6.67 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 2609/67

REGULATION No 174/67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL

of 27 June 1967 on special intervention measures for cereals

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC Whereas in consequence intervention agencies might COMMUNITY, have to buy in large quantities in certain regions, without this measure being required by the long-term Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ trend of markets in the Community ; pean Economic Community ; Whereas provision should therefore be made for pre­ ventive measures to enable trade to support the mar­ Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/ ket in those regions for a given period; EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation of the market in cereals, and in particular to the first Whereas, in view of the uniformity which should paragraph of Article 8 thereof; characterise the Community market in cereals, such measures should be assessed and decided upon from Having regard to the proposal from the Commission; a Community viewpoint;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the establishment of a common price system for cereals entails replacing national systems of de­ Article 1 rived intervention prices, limited to the territory of each Member State, by a uniform Community sys­ If, in any region of the Community, market prices tem; whereas, in the majority of cases, changed pat­ show a fall or a weakness which, in view of the size terns of trade between surplus and deficit areas of the of the harvest or the regional stocks and their geo­ Community result therefrom; whereas the interven­ graphical situation, could oblige the intervention tion prices fixed to meet this new situation differ sub­ agency to buy in large quantities, the Member State stantially in many regions from the prices applied concerned may request the Commission to authorise hitherto ; the intervention agency, in accordance with the pro­ cedure provided for in Article 26 of Regulation No Whereas it is not yet possible to foresee the speed 120/67/EEC, to take special intervention measures, in with which the market will adapt itself to this new accordance with Article 8 of that Regulation. The de­ regionalisation of prices on a Community scale and to cision of the Commission shall be taken within six the disappearance of price zones which had been working days following that on which the request created by the barrier of intra-Community levies; was made.

Whereas, moreover, harvests, which in certain regions The Member State shall state the reasons for its re­ of the Community differed substantially from the av­ quest and for the measures it considers should be erage for previous years, could in those regions tem­ adopted and shall indicate the intended duration of porarily bring about a change in market prices not their application. found elsewhere in the Community; Article 2 1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2269/67. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1967.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 27 June 1967. For the Council The President Ch . HEGER