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No L 79/ 84 Official Journal of the European Communities 1.4.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 676/72 OF THE COMMISSION

of 29 March 1972 laying down a special condition for payment of the refund on butter exported to destinations other than zone E

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ exported to zone E are fixed at a rate lower than MUNITIES, those laid down for exports to other destinations ; whereas, consequently, when the refund on butter for export to destinations other than zone E is fixed, it is Having regard to the Treaty establishing the specified that that refund applies only to products European Economic Community; which are for consumption at these other destinations ; whereas the rules for payment of the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No refund should therefore stipulate, in the case referred 804/681 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization to above, that payment is conditional upon the of the market in milk and milk products, as last production of proof that the product in question has amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1410/71,2 and in been unloaded and put into free circulation; particular Article 17 (4) thereof; Whereas, if these measures are to be applied, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Commission Regulation (EEC ) No 1368 /697 of 17 S76/683 of 28 June 1968 laying down general rules July 1969 on special provisions relating to the lowest for granting export refunds on milk and milk rate of the refund on butter exported to third products and criteria for fixing the amount of such countries should be repealed, since that Regulation refunds, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No provides that the refund fixed for butter exported to 2732/71,4 and in particular Article 6 (3 ) thereof; zone E would not be taken into consideration in determining the lowest rate of the refund within the Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation No meaning of Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1041 /67/EEC5 of 21 December 1967 on detailed rules 1041 /67/EEC ; for the application of export refunds on products subject to a single price system, as last amended by Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1005/71® Regulation (EEC) No 325/71,6 makes provision of 14 May 1971 laying down a special condition of whereby in certain cases, by reason of differences payment of the refund on butter exported to zone E between the rate of the refund and that of the levy, no longer serves any useful purpose in the present or by reason of the nature of the exported products market situation and may consequently be repealed; or of export markets, proof may be required, as an additional condition for payment of the refund, that Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and the product in question has been imported into a Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within third country; the time limit set by its Chairman;

Whereas prices are at a higher level on the British butter market than on the market in that product in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : other third countries; whereas, in order to take account of that fact, refunds on Community butter Article 1

1 OJ No L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 13 . 1 . If a refund on butter for export to a destination 2 OJ No L 148 , 3.7.1971 , p. 3 . other than zone E is fixed at a higher rate than that 3 OJ No L 155, 3.7.1968, p. 1 . 4 OJ No L 282, 23.12.1971, p. 21 . 5 OJ No 314, 23.12.1967, p. 9. 7 OJ No L 177, 18.7.1969, p. 4. 6 OJ No L 38, 16.2.1971, p. 16. 8 OJ No L 109, 15.5.1971, p. 20.

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laid down for butter exported to zone E, the refund if, however, in cases of export to State-trading applicable to that other destination shall be paid, countries, such a document or a copy thereof without prejudice to the application of Article 8 (2) cannot be produced, the competent national of Regulation No 1041 /67/EEC, only on production services may accept any other appropriate of proof that the butter has been discharged and put document as proof. on the market at a destination other than zone E.

Article2¶

( a) as regards unloading, by production of a Regulations (EEC ) Nos 1368 /69 and 1005 /71 are document issued in the .country of destination by hereby repealed. the authorities or bodies referred to in Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1041 /67/EEC; Article 3

(b) as regards putting into . free circulation, by production of* the customs document issued in This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April the country of destination or of a copy thereof; 1972 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 March 1972 .

For the Commission The President

S. L. MANSHOLT