31973R3497

No L 357 / 42 28 . 12 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3497 / 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 21 December 1973 fixing the production refund on olive oil used in the manufacture of certain preserved fish and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of the last month preceding that in which the refund COMMUNITIES , began to apply ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas Article 5 of Commission Regulation ( EEC) Economic Community ; No 615 / 71 (5 ) of 24 March 1971 on detailed rules for the application of the production refund on olive oil Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/ used in the manufacture of certain preserved foods, as 66/EEC (') of 22 September 1966 on the establish­ last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2503 /71 (6), ment of a common organization of the market in oils provides that the refund previously fixed is retained and fats, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No where the difference between that refund and the 1 707/73 (2) and in particular Article 6 thereof ; average referred to above does not exceed 0-50 unit of account ; whereas, however the refund must be fixed Having regard to Council Regulation No 162/ 66/ EEC (3 ) of 27 October 1 966 on trade in oils and at 0 if the average is 0 ; fats between the Community and Greece ; Whereas the import levy applicable from 16 October 1973 to 15 December 1973 to the olive oil referred to Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No above was fixed by Regulations ( EEC) No 1523 / 73 155/71 (4 ) of 26 January 1971 on the production refund on olive oil used in the manufacture of certain and ( EEC) No 3255/ 73 , preserved foods and in particular Article 3(1 ) thereof ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 155/71 provides that a production refund should be granted in respect of olive oil used in the manufacture of Article 1 certain preserved fish and vegetables ; For the months of January and February 1 974 the Whereas Article 3(1 ) of that Regulation provides that amount of the production refund referred to in Article the refund must be fixed every two months ; whereas 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 155 /71 shall be 0 unit of paragraph 2 of that Article provides that the amount account per 100 kilogrammes . of the refund is equal to the average of the variable components of the levies on imports of olive oil Article 2 falling within subheading No 15.07 A I a) of the Common Customs Tariff during the period from the This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January sixteenth day of the third month to the fifteenth day 1974 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No 172, 30 . 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66. (2) OJ No L 175, 29 . 6 . 1973 , p. 5 . (3) OJ No 197, 29 . 10 . 1966, p . 3393/66. (5 ) OJ No L 71 , 25 . 3 . 1971 , p. 12 . (4) OJ No L 22, 28 . 1 . 1971 , p. 5 . (b) OJ No L 258 , 23 . 11 . 1971 , p . 10 .