31975R0776

No L 77/ 20 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 3 . 75

REGULATION ( EEC) No 776/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 25 March 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2778/74 as regards the granting of private storage aid for beef

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ' 1 . Only carcases, half-carcases, and compen­ COMMUNITIES, sated quarters (bone-in) shall be eligible for private storage aid . Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; The minimum quantity per contract shall be 75 metric tons . Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in beef and veal , as last amended 2. Applications must reach the appropriate by Regulation (EEC) No 1855/74 (2), and in particular intervention agency before 27 March 1975.' Articles 6 (5) (b), 8 (2) and 25 thereof ;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No Article 2 2778/74 (3) of 31 October 1974 on the granting at a standard rate fixed in advance of private storage aid for beef, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 . If the contractor so requests, the term of storage 537/75 (4), provides for the granting of private storage contracts concluded before 29 March 1 975 may be reduced to five or four months in the case of contracts aid for carcases, half-carcases and compensated quar­ concluded for six months and to four months in the ters (bone-in ) and fixes the amount of such aid per case of contracts concluded for five months . metric ton for storage periods of four, five and six months ; The amount of aid shall be adjusted to correspond to Whereas, in view of the development of the market the new storage period . situation in recent weeks and foreseeable seasonal price trends on the beef market, it is possible to 2 . The contractor shall inform the intervention suspend temporarily the granting of such aid ; agency of his intention to alter the storage period not whereas, moreover, having regard to probable price less than five working days before the date on which trends this autumn , it should be made possible to the proposed new storage period is due to end . shorten storage periods stipulated in contracts which have already been concluded ; 3 . The intervention agency shall notify the Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Commission whenever the preceding paragraphs are are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ applied . ment Committee for Beef and Veal ,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 3

Article 1 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its The text of Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2778 / 74 publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. is replaced by the following :

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

Done at Brussels, 25 March 1975 .

For the Conimission

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 56, 3 . 3 . 1 975 , p. 33 .