31968R2096

Official Journal of the European Communities 585

No L 308/12 Official Journal of the European Communities 23.12.68

REGULATION (EEC) No 2096/68 OF THE COUNCIL of 20 December 1968

amending Regulation No 172/67/EEC on the general rules governing the denaturing of wheat and rye of bread-making quality

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas to that end it should be provided, as for feed grain, that exporting Member States may pay Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ to the consignor who requests it the subsidy which pean Economic Community ; Italy has to pay for deliveries of denatured common wheat, it being for the exporting Member State to inform the Italian Republic of such payment; Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/ EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common organisation HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ lation (EEC) No 1601/682 and, in particular Ar­ Article 1 ticle 23 (4) (a) thereof; The text of paragraph 1 and that of the second in­ dent of paragraph 2 of Article 6 ( a) of Regulation Having regard to the proposal from the Com­ No 172/67/EEC shall be supplemented by the follow­ mission ; ing text : ' . . . unless the subsidy has, at the request of the consignor, been paid to him by the exporting Member State which shall forthwith inform the Whereas Article 6a of Council Regulation No 172/ 67/EEC3 on general rules governing the denaturing of Italian Republic. The latter shall regularly inform all wheat and rye of bread-making quality, as amended Member States of the amount of the subsidy in force.' by Regulation (EEC) No 644/68,4 set up a system of subsidies and taxes for the purpose of Article 2 restoring the balance between the market in de­ natured common wheat and that in other forage This Regulation shall enter into force on the third crops when Italy makes use of the power conferred day following its publication in the Official Journal by Article 23 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC ; of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 December 1968 .

For the Council

The President V. LATTANZIO

1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2269/67. 2 OJ No L 253 , 16.10.1968 , p . 2. 3 OJ No 130, 28.6.1967, p. 2602/67. 4 OJ No L 122 , 30.5.1968 , p. 3.