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38 Official Journal of the European Communities

No L 252/ 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 8.11.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 2342/72 OF THE COMMISSION of 7 November 1972 on a fifth amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 1031/71 laying down detailed rules of application for Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 on certain measures of conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture following the temporary widening of the margins of fluctuation for the currencies of certain Member States

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ began to apply; whereas a date should be fixed MUNITIES, after which recourse may no longer be had to this arrangement;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Whereas the requirements of trade and any European Economic Community; measures adopted in the matter by the Member States should be borne in mind when the date Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) is being fixed; No 974/711 of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture Whereas the measures provided for in this following the temporary widening of the Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion margins of fluctuation for the currencies of of the Management Committees for Fruit and Vegetables , for Wine, for Oils and Fats , for certain Member States, and in particular Article 6 thereof; Cereals , for Pigmeat, for Poultrymeat and Eggs, for Sugar, for Milk and Milk Products , Whereas Article 4 of Commission Regulation for Beef and Veal, for Products processed from Fruit and Vegetables , for Tobacco , for Flax (EEC) No 1013/712 of 17 May 1971 laying down and Hemp, and for Fishery Products; detailed rules of application for Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 on certain measures of conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture following the temporary widening of margins of fluctuation for the currencies of certain HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Member States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 978/72,3 specifies that the compensa­ tory amounts do not apply to imports effected under certain conditions under contracts which Article 1 are concluded by specified dates and which can be proved by registration or official documents The following paragraph shall be added to to have been concluded; whereas the manner Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1013/71 : in. which this exceptional provision has been '3 . Exemption from application of the applied has varied considerably from one Member State to another; whereas it is extremely compensatory amount shall apply only to products imported before 1 December 1972 difficult to introduce controls to prevent or before any earlier date fixed by a Member abuses of this provision; whereas a considerable State for its territory.' period - has elapsed since this arrangement

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x ot xr t 19 * 1971 1 This Regulation shall enter into force on the 2 OJ No L lio' 18's'.197l', p! 8. day *ts publication in the Official Journal 3 OJ No L 113', 15.5.1972, p. 1. of the European Communities.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels, 7 November 1972. For the Commission The President

S. L. MANSHOLT