31974R2600

No L 277 / 34 Official Journal of the European Communities 12 . 10 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC ) No 2600 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 11 October 1974 amending Regulation ( EEC). No 289/ 71 as regards detailed rules for granting private storage aid for certain dried or dried and smoked pigmeat products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN maturing period of at least five months before COMMUNITIES , consumption , or in the form of preserved products containing Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European not less than 80 % pigmeat.' Economic Community ;

Having regard to Council Regulation No 121 / 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ Article 2 tion of the market in pigmeat, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1861 /74 (2), and in particular The following paragraph is added to Article 3 of Regu­ Articles 5 (4) and 7 (2) thereof ; lation ( EEC) No 289 /71 : Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 289 / 71 (3 ) ' 4 . In the case of dried and smoked hams : of 10 February 1971 laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid for pigmeat, as amended — storage shall commence on the first day of the by Regulation ( EEC) No 2264/74 (4), makes provision sixth month following the commencement of for the storage of frozen or preserved products ; drying or drying and smoking ; whereas, to avoid overloading cold storage facilities, provision should be made for granting private storage — the quantity of the product must be shown in aid for other processed products ; the contract both as a number of items and by weight. The weight of the finished product Whereas provision should therefore be made for the may not be less than 70 % of the weight of storage of dried or dried and smoked hams ; whereas , the fresh product as ascertained before drying however, this measure must be confined to products or drying and smoking . the storage of which is most likely to relieve the market ;

Article 3 Whereas the Management Committee for Pigmeat has not delivered an Opinion within the time limit set by its Chairman , The text of Article 5(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 289 / 71 is replaced by the following :

'The amount of aid shall be fixed per unit of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : weight and shall relate :

— in the case of frozen products, to their weight, Article 1 exclusive of packing, as ascertained on entry into store and before freezing ; Article 2(2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 289 / 71 is — in the case of dried or dried and smoked hams , replaced by the following : to the weight of the fresh products as ascer­ tained before drying or drying and smoking ; ' 2 . Private storage aid may be granted only for — in the case of preserved products, to the net products derived from animals recently slaught­ ered being products held : weight .'

— in cold storage , or — in the form of dried or dried and smoked Article 4 hams the preparation of which requires a

(') OJ No 117 , 19 . 6 . 1967 , p. 2283 / 67 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day (2 ) O'j No L 197, 19 . 7. 1974, p. V (3 ) O'j No L 35, 12 . 2 . 1971 , p. 7 . lolloping the day of its publication in the Officittl h ) O'j No L 239 , 31 . 8 . 1974, p. 49 . / on i II J I <>/ tin liiirufrt iin (.'OIHDI n n it ies.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 October 1974 . For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI