31973R2248

No L 230/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 8 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 2248 /73 OF THE COMMISSION of 16 August 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 on the disposal of butter at a reduced price to certain Community processing undertakings

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No In Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1259/72 the 804/68 (J) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ words 'before 1 May 1973' are replaced by the words tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last 'before 1 July 1973'. amended by the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of Accession and Adjustments ' to the Treaties, and in Article 2 particular Article 6 (7) thereof ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Subparagraph (a) of Article 20 of Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 (3) of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of 1259/72 is replaced by the following : conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture following the temporary widening of the margins of '(a) The compensatory amounts fixed pursuant to fluctuation for the currencies of certain Member Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 shall be multi­ States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No plied by the coefficient 0·3 ; however, in the 1225/73 (4), and in particular Article 6 thereof ; case of the United Kingdom the coefficient Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No shall be 0·6 . The Commission may, if neces­ 1 259/72 (5) of 16 June 1972 on the disposal of butter sary, alter these coefficients.' at a reduced price to certain Community processing undertakings, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Article 3 No 1910/73 (6), provides that, in order to take account of the value of the products concerned, any monetary compensatory amounts applicable in respect of tran­ In footnote 4 to Annex V to Commission Regulation sactions in butter sold under that Regulation are to be (EEC) No 1469/73 (7) of 30 May 1973 fixing the mone­ tary amounts and certain rates for their application, as multiplied by a coefficient of 0·3 ; whereas in the case last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2197/73 (8), the of the United Kingdom that coefficient must be altered, in order to take account of the fact that the sentence ' However, in the case of the United intervention price for butter applicable in that country Kingdom the coefficient shall be 0·6' shall be added differs substantially from that applicable in the other to the indent referring to Regulation (EEC) No 1259 /72. Member States ; Whereas Article 1 of the Regulation in question provides that the butter offered for sale must have Article 4 been taken into storage before 1 May 1973 ; whereas, in view of the build-up of Community butter stocks, This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its this provision should be extended to cover butter publication in the Official Journal of the European taken into stock before 1 July 1973 ; Communites. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ It may where those concerned so request be applied ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products ; with effect from 4 June 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 16 August 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

(») OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 . (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3 ) OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 . (<) OJ No L 125, 11 . 5 . 1973, p. 49 . (*) OJ No L 139, 17. 6. 1972, p. 18 . (7) OJ No L 147, 4. 6. 1973, p. 17. (*) OJ No L 196, 17. 7 . 1973 , p. 10 . (8) OJ No L 223 , 11 . 8 . 1973, p. 21 .