31973R3408

19 . 12 . 73 No L 349 / 21 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3408 / 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 17 December 1973 amending Regulation ( EEC) No 71 /73 on the sale of butter from public stocks

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community ; Regulation ( EEC) No 71 / 73 is amended as follows : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ 1 . In Article 2 (5) third subparagraph the words ' has tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last been exported' are replaced by the following : 'has amended by the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of left the geographic territory of the Community'. Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties, and in particular Article 6 (7) thereof ; 2. Article 2a 2a is replaced by the following : 'Article 2 a Whereas butter sold pursuant to Commission Regula­ tion (EEC) No 71 / 73 (3 ) of 4 January 1973 , as last The butter in its natural state shall leave the geogra­ amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2905/73 (4), must phic territory of the Community within 60 days of be exported within 30 days of the date on which it is the date on which it is taken over according to taken over and whereas the export security is only Article 3 of Regulation No 1041 /67/ EEC. The released if proof is furnished that exportation has been proof of departure from the geographic territory of effected within the prescribed period ; the Community shall be given as for export restitu­ Whereas it has proved advisable to extend the period tion .' allowed for exportation ; whereas the concept of expor­ tation used in the abovementioned Regulation should Article 2 be clarified ;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ following its publication in the Official Journal of ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois-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 12, 13 . 1 . 1973 , p. 14. (4) OJ No L 298 , 26 . 10 . 1973, p. 24 .