31976R0348

No L 43/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 19 . 2 . 76

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 348 /76 of 17 February 1976 on measures to be taken owing to the difficulties affecting potato supplies

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN subheading ex 07.01 A I and of potatoes falling within COMMUNITIES, subheading 07.01 A III of the Common Customs Tariff. The amount of this tax shall be 25 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European account per 100 kilogrammes. Economic Community, and in particular Articles 103 and 113 thereof, However, the Commission may amend this amount to Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, take account of changing prices on the Community Whereas, owing to the very poor potato harvest in the market and the world market and of subsidies granted Community in 1975, that product is at present in by non-member countries on imports of the products short supply on the market ; whereas this situation is described in the first subparagraph. causing a very sharp increase in potato prices and supply difficulties in some regions of the Community 2. The Commission shall, after consulting the and may cause an increase in the cost of living ; Member States, adopt detailed rules for the application Whereas this situation is aggravated by the export of of this Article and may take any interim measures potatoes to non-member countries, encouraged, in necessary. some non-member countries, by import subsidies ; whereas it is necessary, in order to ensure that the Community is supplied, that a tax should be imposed 3 . This Article is without prejudice to the possi­ temporarily on exports of that product to non­ bility of Member States forbidding the exportation to member countries ; whereas, moreover, provision non-member countries of the products referred to in should be made for the possibility of adjusting the paragraph 1 . amount of this tax to take account of changing prices on the Community market and on the world market and of any import subsidies granted by non-member countries ; Article 2 Whereas this Regulation shall not affect the measures taken in accordance with Article 10 of Council Regula­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its tion (EEC) No 2603/69 of 20 December 1969 esta­ publication in the Official Journal of the European blishing common rules for exports ('), Communities. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article 1 It shall apply to operations in respect of which customs export formalities have been completed from 1 . A tax shall be levied on exports to non-member the day following that of its entry into force and until countries of non-certified seed potatoes falling within 30 June 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 17 February 1976.

For the Council The President J. HAMILIUS

(') OJ No L 324, 27. 12. 1969, p. 25.