31975R0120

18 . 1 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 13/21

REGULATION ( EEC) No 120/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 17 January 1975

making special provision to cover the transition from the 1974/75 to the 1975/76 milk year as regards the levying of accession compensatory amounts on butter in trade with the United Kingdom

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN produced in or exported to the United Kingdom after COMMUNITIES, the beginning of the new milk year ; whereas such a measure is proved to be necessary now for butter and can be extended to other products should the need Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European arise ; Economic Community ;

Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the acces­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation sion of new Member States to the European Economic are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ Community and to the European Atomic Energy ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;

Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 804/68 (2) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 662/74 ( 3 ), and in particular Article 5a thereof ;

Art idc 1 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 233/73 (4) of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules for the system of compensatory amounts for 1 . With regard to products falling within Common milk and milk products, and in particular Article 6 ( 1 ) Customs Tariff heading No 04.03 exported from the thereof ; United Kingdom after the beginning of the 1975/76 milk year : Whereas the alignment with effect from the start of the 1975/76 marketing year of butter prices in the (a) the compensatory amounts fixed in Annex VII C new Member States in pursuance of Article 52 (2) of to Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /74 will remain appli­ the ' Treaty of Accession (5 ) will lead to a modification cable in respect of exports to third countries ; of the compensatory amounts laid down in Commis­ sion Regulation (EEC) No 71 0/74 (6) of 29 March (b) without prejudice to the compensatory amounts in 1974 as amended by Annex VII C to Regulation force for the 1975/76 milk year, the United ( EEC) No 25 1 8 / 74 ( 7 ) ; Kingdom shall charge on exports to other Member States an amount equal to the difference Whereas in view of the marked reduction in the between the compensatory amount fixed in Annex compensatory amounts applicable to certain products VII C to Regulation ( EEC) No 2518 /74 and that in trade between the United Kingdom and the other applicable under the terms of the Regulation Member States there is a risk of deflection of trade as fixing the accession compensatory amounts for the a result of speculative transactions ; 1975/76 milk year.

Whereas in order to avoid such deflection it is advis­ 2. However, paragraph 1 shall not apply to able to provide that, for those products which are products in respect of which proof is furnished that liable to speculation , the compensatory amounts they were, after the beginning of the 1975/76 milk currently in operation should continue to apply after year : the beginning of the 1975/76 milk year in the case of exports from the United Kingdom in respect of which (a) produced in the United Kingdom , it is not established that the products concerned were or (■) OJ No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972 , p. .S. \2) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 (b) exported to the United Kingdom within the (3 ) OJ No L 85, 29 . 3 . 1974 , p. 51 . meaning of Article 4 of Commission Regulation (4 ) OJ No L 28 , 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 37 . (5) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. ( EEC ) No 269/73 (s) of 31 January 1973 laying (6) OJ No L 88 , 1 . 4. 1974, p. 1 . ( 7) OJ No L 270, 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 . ( s ) OJ No L W , 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 73 .

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down detailed rules for the application of the Article 2 system of accession compensatory amounts as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 343 / 74 ('). This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of 3 . The United Kingdom shall take the necessary the European Communities. measures with regard to the documents to be produced as evidence for the purposes for paragraph 2 . Such measures shall include provision for the verifi­ It shall be applicable until the end of the sixth month cation of such documents . following the beginning of the 1 975/76 milk year.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 January 1975 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

('-) OJ No L 40 , 12 . 2 . 1974, p. 4 .