31972R2716

18 Official Journal of the European Communities

No L 291 /18 Official Journal of the European Communities 28.12.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 2716/72 OF THE COUNCIL of 19 December 1972 laying down general rules for measures to increase the use of butter by certain classes of consumers

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­ than they consumed previously; whereas , to TIES , this end , provision should be made to grant aid in favour of such consumers while limiting these measures , for the time being, to the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the present milk year; European Economic Community; Whereas the objective of the operation referred Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) to above implies that appropriate measures No 804/68 ,1 of 27 June 1968 , on the common will be taken to ensure that the butter is in organisation of the market in milk and milk fact used for the purpose for which it is products , as last amended by Regulation (EEC) intended; No 1411 /71 ,2 and in particular Article 12 (2) thereof; Whereas detailed rules should be laid down for control of the use of the butter and for the Having regard to the proposal from the Com­ implementation of these measures in accord­ mission; ance with the requirements of the intended operation; Whereas under Article 12 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 , measures other than those laid down in Article 6 of that Regulation may be taken in order to facilitate the disposal of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : butter fats and oils when surpluses are building up ; Article 1 Whereas the situation on the butter market in the Community is characterised by the presence It may be decided that the Member States may of large stocks formed as a result of interven­ grant aids to enable butter to be purchased at tions on the butter market; reduced prices by persons receiving social assistance . Whereas it is not possible during the present milk year to dispose of all these stocks in the Article 2 normal way; whereas the special measures taken pursuant to Article 6 (3) of Regulation The appropriate measures shall be taken to (EEC) No 804/68 will not be sufficient to ensure that the butter is in fact used for the prevent stocks increasing in the near future; purpose for which it is intended . Whereas it is necessary to have recourse to other measures to facilitate the disposal of surpluses Article 3 of butyric fats and oils ; whereas the sale of butter at reduced prices to certain classes of consumers , whose purchases of butyric fats Detailed rules for the application of this and oils are limited, is one of these measures Regulation shall cover the amount of the aid, since it enables them to consume more butter the control measures necessary to ensure that the butter is in fact used for the purpose for which it is intended and, where necessary, the 1 OJ No L 148 , 28.6.1968 , p . 13 . selling price, the characteristics and packaging of the butter . 2 OJ No L 148 , 3.7.1971 , p . 4.

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publi­ cation in the Official Journal of the European Communities . It shall be applicable up to 31 December 1972 .

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

Done i.t Brussels , 19 December 1972 .

For the Council

The President P. LARDINOIS