31974R1998

No L 209/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 7 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC ) No 1998 / 74 OF THE COUNCIL of 29 July 1974 amending Regulation ( EEC) No 1127/ 74 fixing , for the 1974/75 marketing year, the monthly price increases for cereals , wheat and rye flour and wheat groats and meal

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN stances of the new system the same timing and the COMMUNITIES , same monthly increases as are laid down for maize should be adopted for this product ; whereas this Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European results in the first of the monthly increases for Economic Community ; sorghum being fixed for 1 November, Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ lation ( EEC) No 1 996 / 74 (5 ), and in particular Article Article 1 6 (2) thereof ; Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; The text of the last paragraph of Article 2 of Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 1127 / 74 shall be replaced by the Whereas the monthly price increases laid down for following : this group of products for the last two months of the 'The monthly increases in brackets shall not apply marketing year do not apply to the intervention price to the intervention price .' since , according to Article 4(3 ) of Regulation No 120 / 67/ EEC , the intervention prices valid in the last two Article 2 months of the marketing year are the same as those valid in the first month of the following marketing The text of Article 3(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No year ; whereas however those monthly increases do 1 1 27/ 74 shall be replaced by the following : apply to the threshold price and the target price ; whereas consequently the second sentence of Article 2 'The monthly increases to be applied to the thre­ of Regulation ( EEC) No 11 27/74 ( 3 ) should be clari­ shold price for oats, buckwheat, millet and canary fied in this respect ; seed , operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be the same as those appli­ Whereas, according to Article 3 of Regulation No cable to the threshold price for barley, and for 120 / 67 / EEC , the marketing year for sorghum begins sorghum they shall be the same as those appli­ on 1 October, with effect from the 1975/ 76 marketing cable to the threshold price for maize .' year, and finishes on 30 September of the following year ; whereas however as a temporary measure for the Article 3 1974 / 75 marketing year the marketing year for this product begins on 1 August 1974 and ends on 30 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August September 1975 ; whereas nevertheless in the circum­ 1974 .

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

Done at Brussels , 29 July 1974 . For the Council

The President 13 . DESTREMAU

(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967 , p. 2269 / 67 . (-') See page I of this Official Journal . H OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, ' p. 15 . ■