31974R1453

12 . 6 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 155 /9

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1453 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 10 June 1974 fixing the amounts entering into the calculation of the guaranteed prices for cereals in the United Kingdom during the 1974/75 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Kingdom and on the other hand of the difference COMMUNITIES , between the wholesale and the farm gate price ; whereas for the remainder of the 1972/73 marketing Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European year and for the 1973/74 marketing year this amount Economic Community ; was fixed for the said cereals at 6 units of account per metric ton ; Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the Acces­ sion of new Member States to the European Economic Whereas for the 1974/75 marketing year this amount Community and to the European Atomic Energy should be maintained at 6 units of account per metric Community, signed on 22 January 1972, and to the ton for wheat ; whereas by contrast, as a result of Act annexed thereto , hereinafter called ' the Act' ; fixing a single intervention price for barley with effect Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No from 1 August 1974, the amount provided for in 749 /73 ( 2) of 19 March 1973, on production subsidies Article 3 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 for this cereal should be modified and fixed at 4 units of which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in respect of certain agricultural products, and in parti­ account per metric ton ; cular Article 9 thereof ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas Article 54 of the Act provides that during are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ the transitional period the United Kingdom is autho­ ment Committee for Cereals, rized to retain production subsidies for so long as there is a difference in this Member State between HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : prices resulting from the application of the arrange­ ments of the common agricultural policy and the prov­ isions of Title II of the Act ; whereas these subsidies Article 1 may not have the effect of increasing the returns of In order to determine for the 1974/75 marketing year producers above the level which would have resulted the reference level for alignment referred to in Article from the application to these returns of the rules for 3 ( 2) (a) of Regulation ( EEC) No 749/ 73 , the amount the alignment of prices laid down in Article 52 of the Act ; to be deducted from the common intervention price valid at Duisburg effective in January 1975 is fixed at Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 defines the 6 units of account per metric ton for wheat and at 4 various components of the system for applying the units of account per metric ton for barley. provisions of Article 54 (3) of the Act ; whereas Article 3 (2) (a) thereof fixes for wheat and barley the amount Article 2 to be deducted from the common intervention price valid at Duisburg effective in January of each year, This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day account being taken on the one hand of the regional following its publication in the Official Journal of differentiation of intervention prices in the United the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 10 June 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 . V) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 / 1973, p. 1 .