31971R2306

Official Journal of the European Communities 887

No L 244/2 Official Journal of the European Communities 30.10.71

REGULATION (EEC) No 2306/71 OF THE COUNCIL of 29 October 1971

postponing, for certain Member States, the latest date for determining quotations for pig carcases according to the Community scale

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, quotations system involves extensive changes in trade practice ; whereas, therefore, the latest date for Having regard to the Treaty establishing the determining those quotations should, in the case of European Economic Community ; Italy, be postponed for two years ;

Having regard to Council Regulation No Whereas on certain Belgian, German, Luxembourg 121 /67/EEC1 of 13 June 1967 on the common and Dutch markets it is still difficult to determine organisation of the market in pigmeat, as last quotations for pig carcases according to the amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1261 /71 2 ; Community scale; whereas, therefore, an additional period of three months should be allowed to enable Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No these Member States to determine representative 2108/703 of 20 October 1970 determining the quotations for pig carcases ; Community scale for grading pig carcases, and in particular Article 2 thereof; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;

Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2108/70 Article 1 provides that the latest date for determining quotations for pig carcases according to the The latest date for determining quotations for pig Community scale shall be 1 November 1971 ; whereas carcases according to the Community scale shall be derogations from that . date may, however, be 1 February 1972 for Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg provided for where there is a temporary lack of representative quotations on the market in a Member and the Netherlands and 1 November 1973 for Italy. State ; Article 2 Whereas, on the Italian pigmeat market, quotations for pig carcases are not yet sufficiently representative; whereas this market has until now traded mainly in This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November live swine and whereas the change-over to the 1971 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels, 29 October 1971 .

For the Council The President

L. NATALI

1 OJ No 117, 19.6.1967, p. 2283/67. 2 OJ No L 132 , 18.6.1971 , p. 1 . 3 OJ. No L 234 , 23.10.1970, p. 1 .