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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

REGULATION (EEC) No 449/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 February 1973

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1013/71 as regards the calculation of the compensatory amounts applicable in consequence of monetary developments to trade in agricultural products with the new Member States

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN situation by reducing the monetary compensatory COMMUNITIES , amount by the amount detailed by applying to the compensatory amount as provided for by the Act the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European percentage used for calculating the said monetary Economic Community ; compensatory amount ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas , however, compensatory amounts as pro­ 974/71 i1) of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of vided for by the Act, and in particular the amounts conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture following applicable by way of such compensatory amounts, the temporary widening of the margins of fluctuation are subject to frequent variation ; for the currencies of certain Member States, as amen­ ded by Regulation (EEC) No 2146/72 (2), and in par­ Whereas, in order to avoid too rapid changes in the ticular Article 6 thereof ; monetary compensatory amounts, which are in any case of a fixed nature, it is necessary to provide Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1013/71 (3) that the Commission should adjust the latter amount of 17 May 1971 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC) only in cases where such adjustment would be of a No 2342/72 (4), laid down detailed rules to calculating certain economic importance ; the compensatory amounts introduced pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 hereinafter called 'mon­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation etary compensatory amounts' ; whereas those rules do are in accordance with the Opinions of the Manage­ cover trade in agricultural products with the new ment Committees for Fruit and Vegetables, for Wine, Member States , where price levels are generally lower for Oils and Fats, for Cereals, for Pigmeat, for than these of the common prices in the original Poultrymeat and Eggs, for Sugar, for Milk and Milk Member States ; whereas this difference is made up by Products, for Beef and Veal, for Products processed the compensatory amounts introduced into Article 55 from Fruit and Vegetables , for Tobacco, for Flax of the Act (5) annexed to the Treaty concerning the and Hemp and for Fishery Products ; Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (6), signed at Brussels on HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 22 January 1972, or, where the amount of the levy is less than such compensatory amount, by the amounts applicable by way of the said compensatory Article 1 amounts ; whereas account must be taken of this With effect from 1 February 1973 , the following Article is added to Regulation (EEC) No 1013/71 : H OJ No L 106, 12. 5 . 1971 , p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p . 148 . 'Article 2a (3) OJ No L 110, 18 . 5 . 1971 , p. 8 . (4) OJ No L 252, 8 . 11 . 1972, p. 16. 1 . In the case of trade with the new Member (5) OJ No L 73 , 21 . 3 . 1972, p. 14. States the compensatory amount shall be equal to (8) OJ No L 73 , 21 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 . that calculated in accordance with the provisions

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of Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No in Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 to take account of 974/71 , less an amount obtained by multiplying this variation ; however the Commission shall only by the percentage specified in the said Article 2(1 ) make such adjustment where the difference between either : the new and the old compensatory amount as calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 is — the compensatory amount as provided for in significant in relation to the average value of the Article 55 of the Act, or, as the case may be, product concerned. the amount applied by the Community as The Commission shall take into account for this originally constituted, by way of such compen­ satory amounts, with the new Member State purpose the effects of the adjustment on trade in concerned . the products concerned .'

Article 2 2. In the event of any variation in the compen­ satory amounts as provided for in Article 55 of the Act, as in the amounts applicable by way of such This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of compensatory amounts, the Commission shall its publication in the Official Journal of the European adjust the compensatory amounts as provided for Communities .

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

Done at Brussels, 6 February 1973 .

For the Commission

The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI