31974R3180

No L 339 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 12 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 3180/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 17 December 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 221 /72 as regards the maximum tolerance for quantity losses occurring during the storage of beef held in intervention

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community ; The text of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 221 /72 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No is replaced by the following : 2305/70 (*) of 10 November 1970 on the financing of intervention expenditure in respect of the domestic ' 1 . The maximum tolerance as referred to in market in beef and veal, as amended by Regulation Article 3 (2) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 2305/70 (EEC) No 330/74 (2), and in particular Article 3 (2)(c) shall be 1 % . Such tolerance represents the differ­ thereof ; ence between the weight of the product unpacked as recorded on taking over and the weight of the Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 221 /72 (3) product packed as recorded on release from of 31 January 1972 fixing the coefficients to be used storage . for the purpose of determining inventory value and In the case of forequarters or hindquarters boned specifying the maximum tolerance for quantity losses after taking over, allowance shall be made in occurring during the storage of beef held in interven­ applying the tolerance for a weight loss of 32 % as tion specifies a maximum for weight losses occurring a result of boning. during intervention storage in respect both of unboned meat and of forequarters boned by the inter­ 2. The maximum tolerance specified in para­ vention agencies ; graph 1 shall apply only in respect of quantities Whereas it has become clear in the course of interven­ taken over before 1 January 1975 .' tion measures by the Member States that average maximum tolerance of 1 % in respect of meat stored Article 2 unboned should be maintained until the end of 1974 ; Whereas the permissible average weight loss as a This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official result of the boning by intervention agencies of fore­ Journal of the European Communities. quarters and hindquarters should be set at 32 % ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation It shall be applicable in respect of intervention opera­ are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ tions carried out by the Member States since 14 May ment Committee for Beef and Veal , 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1974. For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 249, 17. 11 . 1970 , p. 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 37, 9 . 2 . 1974, p. 5 . (3 ) OJ No L 27, 1 . 2 . 1972, p. 54 .