31974R3145

14. 12 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 334/7

REGULATION (EEC) No 3145 /74 OF THE COUNCIL of 9 December 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 as regards the price to be observed at the cif stage for imports of New Zealand butter and cheese into the United Kingdom

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN into the United Kingdom, fixed the prices to be COMMUNITIES, observed at the cif stage at 76-96 u.a./ 100 kg for butter and 66-45 u.a./ 100 kg for cheese ; -laving regard to the Treaty establishing the European economic Community ; Whereas the situation by reference to which the above cif prices were fixed has changed since, as a result of -laving regard to the Treaty ^) concerning the acces­ an exceptional increase in costs due largely to the ion of new Member States to the European Economic energy crisis ; Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 3 of Protocol Whereas, in the present exceptional circumstances, 8 (2) to the Act annexed thereto ; the cif prices should be modified in the light of the increases in costs which have occurred since these -laving regard to the proposal from the Commission ; prices were first fixed, Whereas, by Protocol 18 , certain quantities of butter nd cheese may be imported into the United HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Kingdom from New Zealand on special terms ; Whereas New Zealand must inter alia guarantee the observance of a specified cif price for such imports ; Article 1 Whereas the price to be observed at the cif stage must In Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 , the price >e laid down, as provided in Article 1 (3) of the said 'rotocol, at a level which enables New Zealand to '76-96 u.a./ 100 kg under (a) is replaced by '90-81 u.a./ 100 kg' and the price '66-45 u.a./ 100 kg' under (b) ealize a price corresponding to the average price is replaced by '78-41 u.a./ 100 kg'. >btained by that country on the United Kingdom narket during the years 1969 to 1972 ; Article 2 Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 126/73 (3) of 31 January 1973 laying down general This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January ules for imports of New Zealand butter and cheese 1975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 9 December 1974. For the Council

The President Ch . BONNET

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