31975R0259

No L 27/ 38 1 . 2. 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 259/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 31 January 1975

amending Regulation ( EEC) No 2778 /74 as concerns the equivalence for the purposes of boning in connection with private storage contracts between bone-in and boned beef

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; 1 . In Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2778 /74 the second sentence is deleted . Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/ 68 ( 1 ) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ 2 . An Article 8a as follows is added to Regulation tion of the market in beef and veal , as last amended ( EEC) No 2778 /74 : by Regulation (EEC) No 1855/74 (2), and in particular Articles 6 ('5) (b) and 8 (2) thereof ; ' Article 8a Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No For the purposes of this Regulation, 100 kilo­ 2778/74 (3) of 31 October 1974 on the granting at a grammes of bone-in meat shall be equivalent to standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid 77 kilogrammes of boned meat. for beef permits the contractor to bone the meat to be stored by him under a private storage contract ; If the yield from the operations referred to in whereas, in order to make it possible to check that all Article 3 is less than that specified in the the meat concerned is placed in store, a flat-rate equi­ preceding subparagraph, then, without prejudice to valence between bone-in -and boned meat has been the operation of Article 3 (4) of Commission Regu­ established ; lation (EEC) No 1071 / 68 (4 ) of 25 July 1968 laying down detailed rules for granting private storage aid Whereas, in order to avoid doubts as to how this equi­ for beef and veal , the aid shall be reduced accord­ valence is to be applied, in particular as regards ingly.' payment of the aid or in the event of premature release from storage, it is appropriate to define the Article 2 provisions concerned in greater detail ;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ following its publication in the Official Journal of ment Committee for Beef and Veal , the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 31 January 1975 .

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

(■) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24. (2) OJ No L 195, 18 . 7 . 1974, p. 14 . (3 OJ No L 294, 1 . 11 . 1974, p. 73 . (4 ) OJ No L 180, 26 . 7 . 1968 , p. 19 .