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REGULATION (EEC) No 656/75 OF THE COUNCIL of 4 March 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff as regards the exchange rate to be applied in respect of the tariff classification of certain cheeses

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , cause products to be classified differently in the various Member States ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Whereas the situation is particularly serious in the European Economic Community, and in particular case of imports of certain cheeses falling within Article 43 thereof; heading No 04.04 of the Common Customs Tariff; whereas the exchange rate fixed pursuant to Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; Regulation No 129 should therefore be applied to these products,

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas General Rule C 3 in Part I, Section I, of the Article 1 Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 950/ 68 (*) of 28 June 1968 on the Common Customs Tariff, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2658/74 (-), The Annex to Regulation (EEC ) No 950/68 is provides that the unit of account by reference to amended as follows : which certain specific customs duties are expressed or the scope of certain headings or subheadings is 1 . in heading No 04.04 : defined, has a value of 0"88867088 g of fine gold ;

— a footnote reference '( a)' shall be inserted Whereas, under Council Regulation No 129 (3) on after the words ' cheese and curd '; the value of the unit of account and the exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the common — the footnote references '( a)' are replaced by agricultural policy, as last amended by Regulation '( c)' in column 4, giving the conventional (EEC) No 2543 /73 (4), derogations may be made rates of duty ; from the principle of using par values to convert one currency into another ; whereas under these 2. at the bottom of the page on which heading provisions representative rates have been adopted in No 04.04 appears : the agricultural sector; — the present footnote (a) becomes note (c); Whereas, if the exchange rate used to convert one — the following footnote shall be inserted : currency into another is not kept as close as possible to these rates, distortions of trade may result and '( a ) The exchange rate to be applied in converting into national currencies the unit of account referred to in the subdivisions of this heading shall, (x) OJ No L 172 , 22 . 7. 1968 , p. 1 . notwithstanding General Rule C 3 (2) OJ No L 295 , 1 . 11 . 1974 , p. 1 . (3) OJ No 106, 30 . 10. 1962 , p . 2553 /62 . contained in Part I, Section I, be the (4) OJ No L 263 , 19 . 9 . 1973 , p. 1 . representative rate, if such a rate is fixed

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Article 2 pursuant to Council Regulation No 129 on the value of the unit of account and This Regulation shall enter into force on the third the exchange rates to be applied for the day following its publication in the Official Journal purposes of the common agricultural of the European Communities. policy ( OJ No 106, 30 . 10 . 1962, p. 2553 /62).' It shall apply from 1 April 1975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 4 March 1975 .

For the Council

The President

M. A. CLINTON