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31 . 7 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 200/ 5

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1960 / 75 OF THE COUNCIL

of 28 July 1975

amending Regulation (EEC) No 155/75 on the sale of skimmed-milk powder from public stocks for supply to developing countries

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES,

Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; In Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 155/75, the text Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No of paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be replaced by the 804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ following : tion of the market in milk and milk products as last '2. In the case of developing countries suffering amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (2), and in a natural disaster or in particularly difficult particular Article 7 (4) thereof ; economic straits, a decision may be. taken to sell Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; direct certain quantities of skimmed-milk powder to be deducted from the quantity laid down in Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1 55/75 (3) provides for paragraph 1 , either for free distribution in these the sale of up to 100 000 metric tons of skimmed­ countries, or in the context of a programme satis­ milk powder from public stocks for supply to deve­ fying conditions to be laid down . loping countries ; whereas the selling price has been fixed at 50 % of the buying-in price applied by the 3 . The selling price ex-intervention agency ware­ intervention agency concerned ; house shall be 22 175 units of account per 100 kilogrammes.' Whereas prices of skimmed-milk powder on the world market have fallen appreciably since the adop­ tion of the above measures and are now close to the Article 2 selling price provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1 55 / 75 ; whereas, in order to ensure that this measure This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its is effective, the selling price should be reduced to a publication in the Official Journal of the European level which will enable the scheme to continue to Communities. develop ; whereas, it also appears advisable to increase the possibilities of direct sales to developing countries, It shall apply as from 1 August 1975 .

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

Done at Athens , 28 July 1975 .

For the Council

The President

M. RUMOR

(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 . (-') OJ No L 74, 22 . 3 . 1975, p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 19 , 24. 1 . 1975, p . 3 .