31974R2608

No L 278/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 15 . 10 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2608 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 October 1974 fixing the special levies applicable to New Zealand butter and cheese imported into the United Kingdom under Protocol No 18

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN possible be kept at a uniform level to ensure the COMMUNITIES, stability of the market ; whereas, these levies may nevertheless be altered, and are in particular to be Having regard to the Treaty ( ! ) concerning the acces­ adjusted where this is necessary to permit steady sales sion of new Member States to the European Economic of the annual quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of Community and to the European Atomic Energy the Protocol ; Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and to Protocol No 18 (2 ), (hereinafter called the Whereas, in order not to endanger the sale of Commu­ 'Protocol') to the Act annexed thereto ; nity butter and cheese, the special levies must not be lower than the level necessary to permit the annual Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol to 226/73 (3) of 31 January 1973 laying down general be sold ; rules for imports of New Zealand butter and cheese into the United Kingdom , and in particular Article 8 Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the thereof ; situation on the British market that the special levies should be fixed at the levels indicated below ; Whereas pursuant to Article 2(1 ) of the Protocol special levies are applied to New Zealand butter and Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation cheese imported into the United Kingdom under that are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ Protocol ; ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of the Protocol and to Article 4(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 these HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : special levies are fixed on the basis of the difference between : Article 1 — the market price at which the annual quantities The special levies referred to in Article 2 of Protocol specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol can actu­ No 18 are hereby fixed at : ally be sold, and — 31-96 u.a./ lOO kg for butter ; — the cif price fixed in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73, plus costs incurred between the cif — 69-03 u.a./ lOO kg for cheese . and first sale stages ; Article 2 Whereas Article 4 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 226/73 provides that the special levies should be fixed at a This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its level such that the butter and cheese in question can publication in the Official Journal of the European be sold at a consistent rate and should as far as Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 14 October 1974 . For the Commission

The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 173 . 3 OJ No L 27, 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 17 .