31975R0456

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REGULATION (EEC) No 456/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 26 February 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 laying down detailed rules for the appli­ cation of monetary compensatory amounts

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation COMMUNITIES, are in accordance with the Opinions of all the Manage­ ment Committees for the common organization of agricultural markets, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 974/71 (•) of 12 May 1971 on certain measures of conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture following the temporary widening of the margins of fluctuation for the currencies of certain Member Article 1 States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3259/74 (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof ; The text of Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 is replaced by the following : Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1463/73 (3) of 30 May 1973, as last amended by Regu­ ' However, lation (EEC) No 2521 /74 (4), laid down detailed rules (a) in trade with the new Member States the acces­ for applying the system of monetary compensatory sion compensatory amounts and the fixed amounts ; whereas further precision in those rules has components, and been found necessary ; (b) in trade with third countries the import Whereas Article 4(3) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1463/73 charges and the export refunds and levies, provides that in trade with the new Member States the accession compensatory amounts, and in trade with expressed in units of account, applicable to the third countries the import charges, as expressed in products referred to in paragraph 1 shall be multi­ units of account, are to be multiplied by a coefficient ; plied by a coefficient. For the purposes of this whereas for certain processed products amounts Regulation , the amount levied pursuant to the last intended to protect the processing industry, herein­ subparagraph of Article 2(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) after called 'fixed components', are applied, pursuant No 986/68 on exports of skimmed milk or skim­ to Articles 47 and 61 of the Act (5 ) annexed to the med-milk powder in the form of denatured skim­ Treaty (6) concerning the accession of new Member med-milk powder or compound feedingstuffs shall States to the European Economic Community and to not be treated as an export levy. the European Atomic Energy Community, in trade between the Member States ; whereas the fixed compo­ For the Member States which keep their exchange nent is also an import charge ; whereas it is therefore rates at any given moment within a band of 2-25 necessary to provide expressly that this component is % the coefficient shall be as follows : also to be multiplied by the coefficient ; — Belgium , Luxembourg, Netherlands : 0-973 ; Whereas food aid exports fulfil a humanitarian — Germany : 0-8797. purpose ; whereas they should therefore be exempted from the application of monetary compensatory For the other Member States, the coefficient shall amounts ; be derived from the percentage used to calculate the monetary compensatory amount and shall be Whereas the opportunity should at the same time be fixed by the Commission at the same time as this taken to make certain corrections to the English amount .' version of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 ;

(') OJ No L 106, 12. 5 . 1971 , p. 1 . A rticle 2 (2) OJ No L 349 , 28 . 12 . 1974, p . 10 (J) OJ No L 146, 4. 6 . 1973 , p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 270, 5 . 10 . 1974, p . 70 . The following Article shall be inserted in Regulation (») OJ No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14. (') OJ No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 . ( EEC) No 1463 /73 :

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'Article 16a 2. No monetary compensatory amount shall be applied in respect of exports to third countries for 1 . In respect of the following transactions purposes of food-aid programmes carried out by concerning products supplied for purposes of humanitarian organizations, provided that such Community or national food-aid programmes no programmes have been approved under the proce­ monetary compensatory amount shall be appli­ dure laid down in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) cable : , No 974/71 .' — in the case of products from intervention stocks, intra-Community trading operations Article 3 and exportation to third countries, — in the case of products mobilized on the Where those concerned so request, Article 16a ( 1 ) of Community market, exportation to third coun­ Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 shall apply with effect tries . from 1 January 1974.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 February 1975 .

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission