31973R3536

No L 361 /2 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 12 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 3536/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 17 December 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2824/72 as regards the financing of certain measures by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 55 ( 1 ) (b) of the Act, such amounts granted in trade COMMUNITIES, with third countries are deducted from levies or other charges on imports or, as appropriate added to the refunds payable ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas Article 56 of the Act provides that, under certain conditions, specific measures may be intro­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No duced ; whereas amounts granted pursuant to that 729/70 ( J ) of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the Article in trade with third countries are to be consid­ common agricultural policy, as last amended by the ered as refunds within the meaning of Article 2 ( 1 ) of Act (2) on the Conditions of Accession and the Adjust­ Regulation (EEC) No 729/70, and are therefore to be ments to the Treaties (hereinafter referred to as 'the financed as such, Act'), and in particular Articles 2 (2) and 3 (2) thereof ;

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2824/72 (3) of 28 December 1972 laying down general rules for the financing of interventions by the Article 1 Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guid­ ance and Guarantee Fund sets out the measures to be treated as interventions intended to stabilize the agri­ The Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2824/72 is amended as follows : cultural markets, within the meaning of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 ; whereas it is neces­ sary to include in this Annex intervention measures 1 . The following is added to Section I, ' Cereals and rice' : introduced since then, and the monetary compensa­ tory amounts charged and granted in trade between Member States, the financing of which as intervention '8 . The production refunds provided for in was provided for by Article 7 (2) of Council Regula­ Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1009/73 .' tion (EEC) No 974/71 (4) of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of conjunctural policy to be taken in agricul­ 2. The following is added to Section IV, 'sugar' : ture following the temporary widening of the margins of flucutation for the currencies of certain Member (a) to point 3 : 'and in Article 1 of Regulation States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No (EEC) No 622/73' ; 1225/73 (5) ; (b) to point 4 : 'and in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 364/73' ; Whereas Article 58 of the Act provides that the acces­ (c) after point 4 : sion compensatory amounts granted shall be financed by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural 5 . The subsidies granted pursuant to Article Guidance and Guarantee Fund ; 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 239/73'.

Whereas it must be made clear under which heading 3 . The following Section is added : these compensatory amounts are to be financed ; whereas, however, such clarification concerns only XV. Provisions concerning various sectors : those amounts granted in trade between Member 1 . The monetary compensatory amounts charged States, in that, in accordance with Articles 47 ( 1 ) and and granted in trade between Member States 0) OJ No L 94, 28 . 3 . 1970, p. 133 . pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 . (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. 2. The accession compensatory amounts granted (>) OJ No L 298 , 31 . 12. 1972, p. 5 . (4) OJ No L 106, 12. 5 . 1971 , p. 1 . in trade between Member States pursuant to (5) OJ No L 125, 11 . 5 . 1973, p. 49 . Articles 47 and 55 of the Act of Accession .'

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The amounts granted pursuant to Article 56 of the This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Act in trade with third countries shall, for purposes of the financing of the common agricultural policy, be following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. included among the export refunds to third countries within the meaning of Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 . It shall apply from 1 January 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1973 . For the Council The President

J. CHRISTENSEN