31973R0528

No L 51 /4 Official Journal of the European Communities 24. 2 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 528/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 19 February 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 228/73 laying down general rules for the system of compensatory amounts for fruit and vegetables

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN whereas, in order to avoid this possibility, it should COMMUNITIES , be laid down that products submitted with no indi­ cation as to the name of their variety should receive Having regard to the Treaty (*) concerning the the compensatory amount laid down for Group III ; Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 62 ( 1 ) of the Article 1 Act annexed thereto ; Annex II to Regulation ( EEC ) No 228 /73 shall be Having regard to the proposal from the Commis­ amended as follows : sion ; 1 . Reference to footnote ( x ) shall be added to the Whereas Title VI ' MARKING ' of the Annex to title of the Annex­ Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 1641 /71 ( 2 ) of 27 2. Reference to footnote (*) shall be deleted after July 1971 laying down quality standards for dessert the words ' Group I '. apples and pears does not require that the variety be indicated for Class II and III apples ; 3 . Footnote (*) shall be replaced by the following : "Whereas in Annex II to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 228 /73 (3 ) of 31 January 1973 laying down '(*) Class II apples and Class III apples, where general rules for the system of compensatory appropriate, presented with no indication as amounts for fruit and vegetables, the footnote to the name of the variety, shall be con­ provides that Class II apples, and Class III apples sidered : where appropriate, which are presented with no — as belonging to Group I if imported into indication as to their variety, are to be considered a new Member State ; as belonging to Group I ; whereas, although this provision is justified when the compensatory — as belonging to Group III if exported by a new Member State'. amount is levied by the new Member States, its appli­ cation when the compensatory amount is granted by Article 2 the new Member States might well encourage oper­ ators consistently to refrain from indicating the This Regulation shall enter into force on the day variety of all Class II and III apples so chat they might following its publication in the Official Journal of benefit from the highest amount fixed for Group I ; the European Communities .

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

Done at Brussels, 19 February 1973 .

For the Council The President

A. LAVENS

(!) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (») OJ No L 172 , 31 . 7. 1971 , p. 1 . (3) OJ No I. 27, 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 20.