31973R1191

9 . 5 . 73 No L 122/5 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1191 /73 OF THE COUNCIL of 8 May 1973 laying down general rules for the granting of a consumer subsidy for butter

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 Member States shall from 14 May 1973 to 31 March thereof ; 1975 be authorized to grant to private ultimate consumers an aid for butter amounting at most to 10 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No units of account per 100 kilogrammes. 804/68 ( l) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last Article 2 amended by the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties and in Member States shall take the measures appropriate to particular Article 12 thereof ; ensure that the aid is granted only for butter bought for private consumption and that the aid benefits the Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; ultimate consumer through reduction of the final sales Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­ price. ment ; Article 3 Whereas, since there are still considerable surpluses of butter on the market, all appropriate means should be Notwithstanding the system referred to in Article 3 of employed to increase butter consumption ; Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 (3) of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural Whereas the reduction of the price to the ultimate policy, as last amended by the Act of Accession, the private consumer is an effective means of achieving Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guid­ this objective ; whereas, for this purpose, it ought to be ance and Guarantee Fund shall finance only 50 % of possible to grant aid which has the effect of reducing the aid granted for butter purchases for private the price of butter to the ultimate private consumer ; consumption . Whereas it is opportune to authorize the Member States to grant certain aid and to restrict the participa­ Article 4 tion of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund to 50 % of the corresponding This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 May expense ; 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 8 May 1973 .

For the Council

The President

A. LAVENS

(!) OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 . (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3 ) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 13 .