31973R2879

25 . 10 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 297/3

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2879/ 73 OF THE COUNCIL of 22 October 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 234/73 fixing the amounts applicable as compen­ satory amounts for pigmeat

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; The text of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 234/73 is replaced by the following : Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the Acces­ sion of new Member States to the European Economic ' 1 . If Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 229/73 Community and to the European Atomic Energy is applied during one or more days in the course Community, signed on 22 January 1972, and in parti­ of the first seventy-five days of any quarter up to 1 cular Article 62 ( 1 ) of the Act annexed thereto ; August, 1 November, 1 February or 1 May, the amount applicable in the following quarter as the Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; compensatory amount for the products referred to in Articles 1 and 2 shall be determined every Whereas Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation ( EEC) No quarter by reference to the average of the amounts 234/73 (-') of 31 January 1973 laying down general determined during the first seventy-five days of rules for the system of compensatory amounts for the previous quarter for the cereals included in the pigmeat provides that lower amounts applicable as quantity of feed grain referred to in Article 1 of compensatory amounts shall be fixed wherever such Regulation No 133/67/EEC. amounts are applied for feed grain, when its levy is lower than the compensatory amount ; However, if the amount varies by less than 5 % from the amount determined for the previous Whereas the possibility of changing these amounts at quarter, the latter amount shall remain unchanged . the end of each month has led to uncertainty on the market in pigmeat which disturbs the flow of trade ; 2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to the compensatory amount for products falling Whereas the application of these amounts in the first under subheading No 15.01 A of the Common months since the Accession has shown that it is not Customs Tariff'. necessary to maintain the monthly fixing ; whereas for the purpose of a uniform application of the system Article 2 ^the amounts applicable as compensatory amounts should therefore be fixed every quarter on the same This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November date as the sluice-gate prices and the levies ; 1973 .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 22 October 1973 .

For the Council

The President

Ib FREDERIKSEN

(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (-') OJ No L 29 , 1 . 2. 1973 , p . 1 .