31975R1822

No L 185/ 10 16 . 7 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1822/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 15 July 1975 specifying the period of application for the system of guaranteed prices in the market in pigmeat in the United Kifigdom

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, according to information available in respect COMMUNITIES , of the prices applicable with effect from 1 August 1975 in the markets in cereals and pigmeat, the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European system of guaranteed prices applicable in the United Economic Community ; Kingdom in the market in pigmeat will in accordance Having regard to the Treaty of Accesion (J ) ; with Article 7 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 end on 31 July 1975 ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 (2) of 19 March 1973 on production subsidies Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ respect of certain agricultural products, and in parti­ ment Committee for Pigmeat, cular Article 9 thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 54 of the Act annexed to the Treaty of Accession provides that for such time as there is a Article 1 difference in the United Kingdom between prices obtained under the national system of guaranteed The period of application for the system of guaranteed prices and market prices resulting from the applica­ prices in the market in pigmeat in the United tion of the arrangements of the common agricultural Kingdom shall be the same as that for the application policy and the provisions of the Act, that Member of the basic price . State shall be authorized to retain production However : subsidies ; whereas it further provides that such subsidies may not have the effect of increasing the — the period of application of the system of returns of producers above the level which would guaranteed prices which began on 1 April 1974 result from applying the rules for the alignment of shall end on 27 October 1974, prices to such returns ; — the period of application for 1974/ 1975 shall commence on 28 October 1974 . Whereas, if these provisions and those adopted for their implementation in Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 Article 2 are to be applied rationally, the periods of application for the prices concerned must be the same ; The system of guaranteed prices applicable in the Whereas these periods differ considerably, particularly United Kingdom in the market in pigmeat shall be in the market in pigmeat ; discontinued on 31 July 1975 . Whereas it should therefore be specified that the Article 3 period of validity of the guaranteed price must corres­ pond with that of the basic price ; whereas, however, This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day account must be taken of administrative requirements, following its publication in the Official Journal of and of possible transitional difficulties ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 July 1975 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (-') OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1973 , p . 1 .