31973R0498

22 . 2 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 49/ 13

REGULATION (EEC) No 498 /73 OF THE COMMISSION of 31 January 1973 on transitional measures for intervention on the market in butter in the new Member States

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN resulting from the common organization of the COMMUNITIES, markets ;

Whereas from 1 January 1973 national measures Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ were brought into operation in Denmark and pean Economic Community ; Ireland to ensure that the abovementioned checks are carried out and that the requirements of Having regard to the Treaty (*) concerning the Community rules in this field are satisfied ; whereas Accession of new Member States to the European it is appropriate in these circumstances to provide, Economic Community and the European Atomic at the request of those two Member States, that Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 from 1 February 1973 , their intervention agencies January 1972, and in particular Article 63 of the buy in butter made in Denmark or Ireland on or Act (z) annexed thereto, hereinafter called the 'Act' ; after 1 January 1973 which has undergone the abovementioned checks ; Whereas on 1 Febuary 1973 the rules for interven­ tion on the market in butter and cream will become Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­ applicable to producers in the new Member States ; tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 985/68 ( 3) of Products ; 15 Juily 1968 laying down general rules for interven­ tion on the market in butter and cream , as last HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2714/72 (4 ) and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 685 /69 (5 ) of 14 Article 1 April 1969 on detailed rules of application for inter­ The Danish and Irish intervention agencies shall, vention on the market in butter and cream , as last from 1 February 1973 , buy in butter offered to amended by the Act, provide that butter may be them : bought in only after certain technical measures have been taken to ensure, in particular, that the quality ( a) which has been produced , on or after 1 January and keeping quallity of the butter are satisfactory ; 1973 , and whereas it is stipulated in particular, in Article 4 of ( b ) which, before 1 February 1973 , had undergone the last-mentioned Regulation, that butter offered to the quality cheeks which those Member States intervention agencies must have been made during instituted at national level in implementation of the previous fourteen days and that butter made Community measures on the quality and during the previous two months may be offered to keeping quality of butter . the intervention agencies provided that a check was carried out within a maximum period of 14 days Article 2 following the day on which the butter was made ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of Whereas provision should be made for the measures the European Communities . necessary to facilitate the passage from the existing arrangements in the new Member States to those It shall apply from 1 February 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(*) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 . (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14 . (3 ) OJ No L 169 , 18 . 7. 1968 , p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 15 . («) OJ No L 90, 15 . 4 . 1969, p. 12 .