31973R0488

No L 48/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 21 . 2 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 488/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 14 February 1973

supplementing, in respect of the new Member States, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1060/68 of 24 July 1968 regarding production refunds on certain cereal products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN price for the reference cereal at the start of the COMMUNITIES, marketing year and 6·80 units of account ; whereas, for the purpose of calculating the advance and the Having regard to. the Treaty establishing the Euro­ refund to be paid, it is necessary to take into pean Economic Community ; account the compensatory amount for the new Member States ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 367/ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­ 67/EEC (*) of 25 July 1967 fixing production tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the refunds on maize groats and meal and broken rice Management Committee for Cereals ; used in the brewing industry, as last amended by Regulation No 852/67/EEC ( 2), and in particular Article 3 thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to Council Regulation No 371/ 67/EEC (8) of 25 July 1967 fixing production Article 1 refunds on starches and quellmehl, as last amended Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 1060/68 is amen­ by Regulation (EEC ) No 179/73 (4), and in parti­ ded by addition of the following Article 4a : cular Article 5 thereof ; ' Article 4a Whereas, under Article 57 of the Act, annexed to the Treaty (5 ) on the Accession of new Member The amount to be regarded as the threshold price States to the European Economic Community and for the new Member States shall be : the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at — for the one referred to in the first paragraph Brussels on 22 January 1972, in fixing the level of of Article 1 , the threshold price for the the various elements of the price and intervention cereal in question less the compensatory system, except for the intervention prices, account amount fixed for that cereal for the marketing must be taken for the new Member States, to the year ; extent necessary for the proper functioning of the Community rules, of the difference in prices — for the one referred to in Article 3 , the expressed by the compensatory amount ; threshold price for the cereal in question less the amount applicable to that cereal by way Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1060/ of compensatory amount, or less the average 68 (6) of 24 July . 1968 adopting certain detailed rules of such amounts should there be several, during for the application of Regulations Nos 367/67/EEC the month of processing.' and 371/67/EEC regarding production refunds on maize processed into groats and meal and on maize Article 2 and common wheat processed into starch and quell­ mehl provides for a system of advances in respect of This Regulation shall enter into force on the day the production refund for the products in question ; of its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­ whereas payment of the advance must not exceed, pean Communities. It shall apply from 1 February per 100 kg, the difference between the threshold 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 14 February 1973 . For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

H OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 36 . H OJ No 278 , 17. 11 . 1967, p. 1 . ( 3) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 40 . ( 4) OJ No L 25 , 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 6 . (5) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (8) OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7. 1968, p. 38,