31976R0575

No L 69/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 15 . 3 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 575 /76 of 15 March 1976 determining the maximum guaranteed price (or milk in the United Kingdom for the 1976/77 milk year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation COMMUNITIES, are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, Having regard to the Treaty of Accession ('), Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 749/73 of 19 March 1973 on production subsidies HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in respect of certain agricultural products (2), and in parti­ Article 1 cular Article 9 thereof, For the purpose of applying to milk and milk Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 558/76 of 15 products Article 54 of the Act annexed to the Treaty March 1976 (3), fixing the target price for milk and the of Accession, the maximum guaranteed price for milk intervention prices for butter, skimmed-milk powder in the United Kingdom for the 1976/77 milk year and Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese shall be : for the 1976/77 milk year, provides for the prices to be raised on two stages, once at the beginning of the — 16-50 units of account per 100 kg for the period milk year and again on 16 September 1976 ; whereas from the beginning of the milk year to 15 > similar arrangements should be made as regards the September 1976 ; maximum guaranteed price for milk in the United — 16-88 units of account per 100 kg for the period Kingdom ; from 16 September 1976 to the end of the milk Whereas under Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No year. 749/73 the guaranteed price for milk applicable to the standard quantity , may be increased at most, propor­ Article 2 tionately to the decrease arising out of the alignment of prices, by an amount equal to the difference This Regulation shall enter into force on the day between the support^evel for milk resulting from the following its publication in the Official Journal of intervention prices effective in the United Kingdom the European Communities. and that resulting froft^ther intervention prices effec­ tive in the Community ; It shall apply with effect from 15 March 1976.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 March 1976 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5. (2) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1973, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 4.