31974R3247

No L 346/ 30 Official Journal of the European Communities 24 . 12 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3247 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 20 December 1974 laying down certain detailed rules for the application of Regulation ( EEC) No 2496/74 amending the prices applicable in agriculture for the 1974/75 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation COMMUNITIES , are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Flax and Hemp, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;

Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 2496/74 (') of 2 October 1974 amending the prices applicable in agriculture for the 1974/75 marketing year, and in particular Article 4 thereof ; Article 1 Whereas Regulation ( EEC) No 2496/74 provided inter Where the amount of the aid for flax and hemp alia for a general increase with effect from 7 October 1974 in the level of the prices and aids applicable in which was applicable before 7 October 1974 has been agriculture ; paid, the person concerned shall be entitled , on appli­ cation to be submitted within 30 days from the date Whereas with respect to the aids for flax and hemp of entry into force of this Regulation , to receive the the effect of the abovementioned Regulation is that difference between the amount of the aid in force the amounts of these aids are to be increased only for with effect from 7 October 1974 and the amount certain recipients thereof, even though the crops resulting from the previous fixing. concerned were harvested over the same period in all parts of the Community ; whereas in order to avoid discrimination among recipients of aid provision Article 2 should be made to enable those to whom the aid applicable before 7 October 1974 has been paid to This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day receive the difference between the old aid and the following its publication in the Official Journal of new amount thereof ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 December 1 974 . For the Commission

The President Franc;ois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 268 , 3 . 10 . 1974, p. 1