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REGULATION (EEC) No 749/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 19 March 1973 on production subsidies which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in respect of certain agricultural products

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas in respect of certain products the guaranteed COMMUNITIES, price will reach the common price in the more or less near future ; whereas in that case, the conditions Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ in which the system of guaranteed prices for these pean Economic Community ; products will be discontinued before the expiry of the transitional period should be laid down ; Having regard to the Treaty ( x ) concerning the Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1972, and in particular Article 54 (4) of the Act annexed thereto , hereinafter called ' the Act' ; Article 1 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; This Regulation lays down the rules for the imple­ Having regard to the Opinion of the European mentation of Article 54 of the Act. It shall apply to Parliament ; wheat, barley, oats , rye, sugar beet, pig carcases , beef and veal, eggs and liquid cows' milk for con­ Whereas Article 54 of the Act provides that during sumption . the transition period the United Kingdom is author­ ized to retain production subsidies for so long as there is a difference in this Member State between Article 2 prices obtained under the national system of guaran­ teed prices and market prices resulting from the 1 . As regards the products listed in Article 1 and application of the arrangements of the common without prejudice to Article 4, the prices obtained agricultural policy and the provisions of Title II of under the system of guaranteed prices referred to in the Act ; whereas these subsidies may not have the Article 54 ( 1 ) of the Act are the guaranteed prices effect of increasing the returns of producers above fixed for the marketing year in question within the the level which would have resulted from the appli­ framework of the system laid down in the Agri­ cation to these returns of the rules for the alignment culture Acts, 1947/ 1957 of the United Kingdom . of prices ; 2 . The production subsidies referred to in Article Whereas the implementation of those provisions 54 of the Act are those granted under the system requires that the different features of the system, and of guaranteed prices . in particular the prices obtained, the returns, and the level which the returns should ultimately attain , Article 3 should be defined ; whereas that level must be fixed in such a way as to ensure that the guaranteed prices 1 . As regards the products referred to in Article 1 , are comparable with Community prices ; with the exception of milk, the returns referred to in Article 54 (3 ) of the Act are those which on the Whereas in respect of certain products it is essential , date of entry into force of this Regulation result in order to avoid distortion in competition , to lay from the application of the system of guaranteed down special measures having regard to the system prices . of guaranteed prices for those products ; 2 . In the application of Article 54 ( 3 ) of the Act, (*) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p . 5 . the alignment of the prices obtained under the

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system of guaranteed prices defined in Article 2 of of the common agricultural policy, and in particular this Regulation shall be established with reference to : the oommon organization of the market in eggs.

( a ) in the case of wheat and barley, the common intervention price valid at Duisburg effective in Article 6 January of each year, less an amount to be determined, account being taken both of regional The methods used, under the systems of guaranteed differentiation of intervention prices in the United prices, to ascertain or calculate the average prices Kingdom and of the difference between the obtained by producers on markets shall not be wholesale and the farm gate price (hereinafter referred to as ' adjusted intervention price'), this altered so as to bring the calculated prices down to a level lower than that which would result from the amount being fixed at 6 units of account per metric ton for the remainder of the 1972/ 73 application of the methods used before 1 February 1973 . marketing year and for the 1973 /74 marketing year ; ( b ) in the case of oats and rye, the adjusted inter­ Article 7 vention price for barley referred to in ( a) multi­ plied by a coefficient calculated on the basis of 1 . The sysftem of guaranteed prices shall be discon­ the relationship between the threshold price for tinued as soon as possible and, in any case as soon oats and rye respectively and the threshold price as : for barley obtaining for the marketing year in question ; ( a) in the case of wheat and barley, the adjusted ( c) in the case of pig carcases, the common basic intervention price effective in the United King­ price ; dom ;

( b ) in the case of oats and rye, the adjusted inter­ ( d ) in the case of beef and veal, the guide price for vention price for barley effective in the United adult bovine animals increased by 3-41 units of Kingdom , multiplied by the coefficient referred account per 100 kg liveweight ; to in Article 3 ( 2 ) ( b ) ; (e) in the case of sugar beet, the minimum price ( c) in the case of pig carcasses, the common basic of beet. price, less the compensatory amount ;

Article 4 ( d) in the case of beef and veal, the guide price for adult bovine animals effective in the United Kingdom, increased by 3-41 units of account per 1 . Article 54 of the Act shall apply to production subsidies provided for within the framework of the 100 kg liveweight, system of guaranteed prices for milk within a stan­ is equal to or exceeds the guaranteed price appli­ dard quantity. cable to these products . 2 . The guaranteed price of milk applicable to the 2. The system of guaranteed prices may not be standard quantity may be increased to the maximum , applied after : in keeping with the decrease, arising out of the align­ ment of prices , by an amount equal to the difference — 30 June 1974 in the case of sugar beet ; between the support level of milk resulting from the intervention prices effective in the United Kingdom — 31 March 1974 in the case of eggs . and that resulting from the intervention prices effec­ tive in the Community . Article 8 3 . When , in a given milk year, the average price received by United Kingdom producers equals or Each year the United Kingdom shall notify the Com­ exceeds the market price resulting, in the milk year mission in good time of the guaranteed prices which in question , from the application of the mechanisms it proposes to fix . of the common organization of the market in milk products , the system of guaranteed prices shall be revoked with effect from the following milk year . Article 9 Article S Detailed rules of application of this Regulation shall The guaranteed price for eggs shall be fixed in such be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid a way as to avoid disrupting the proper functioning down in Article 26 of Council Regulation No 120/

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67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common orga­ Article 10 nization of the market in cereals as last amended by This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of the Act, or in the corresponding Articles of the other its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­ Regulations on the common organization of agricul­ pean Communities . tural markets, whichever is appropriate . It shall apply until 31 December 1977.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 March 1973 .

For the Council

The President

A. LAVENS

(!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269 /67 .