31974R0753

No L 86 / 76 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 3 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 753/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 29 March 1974 extending the period of application of and amending of the protective measures relating to beef and veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion, there would be a short period during which COMMUNITIES , products could be imported into the Community without being subject to the production of an import Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European licence and this could lead to speculative importations Economic Community ; escaping the surveillance arrangements and possibly Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No aggravating the unfavourable trend of the market in 805/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ the products in question ; tion of the market in beef and veal, as last amended Whereas it is necessary to limit the period of applica­ by Regulation (EEC) No 1 87/73 (2), and in particular tion of the measures provided for in this Regulation to Article 21 (2) thereof ; the period strictly necessary to bring into operation Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 (3) the system of licences as extended under Article 15 of of 21 February 1974 introduced protective measures Regulation ( EEC) No 805/68 to cover the products in for beef and veal ; whereas those measures, which question , provide in particular for a system of licences, were by Regulation (EEC) No 656/74 (4) extended to 31 March HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1974 ;

Whereas by Regulation ( EEC) No 752/74 (5) the Article 1 Council extended the system of licences to cover all products affected by those measures ; whereas it will In Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 paragraph 4 of Article 1 and Article 2 are deleted . not be possible to prepare and adopt the detailed rules necessary for the application of that system to those products in sufficient time for them to come into oper­ Article 2 ation on the date of expiry of the said protective Import licences and advance fixing certificates which measures ; bear an endorsement in Section 12 in accordance with Whereas the grounds for introducing that part of the Article 1 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 shall be protective measures which comprises the system of valid throughout the Community. licences will continue to exist after the said date ; whereas in particular it will be necessary to keep the Article 3 importation into the Community of live animals and In Article 5 of Regulation ( EEC) No 442/74, the date of beef and veal under close surveillance ; whereas on which the system is to cease to apply is replaced provision must therefore be made for measures by the date 21 April 1974 . enabling a smooth transition to be made from the system introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 to Article 4 the system provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 752/ 74 ; Council Regulation (EEC) No 474/74 (6) of 26 Whereas to this end it is necessary to extend the February 1974 is repealed . period of application of the system of licences intro­ Article 5 duced by Regulation (EEC) No 442/74 ;

Whereas, moreover, if the transition were not effected This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1974 . by means of the measures provided for in this Regula­

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

Done at Brussels, 29 March 1974.

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24. (2 ) OJ No L 25 , 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 23 . (3) OJ No L 50 , 22. 2. 1974, p. 33 . (4) OJ No L 79 , 25 . 3 . 1974, p. 3 . (5 ) See p. 75 of this Official Journal . (6) OJ No L 56, 27 . 2. 1974, p. 24.