31976R0577

No L 69/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 15 . 3 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 577/76 of 15 March 1976 making special provision to cover the transition from the 1975/76 to the 1976/77 milk year as regards the levying of accession compensatory amounts on butter in trade with the United Kingdom

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

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community, 1 . With regard to products falling within heading Having regard to the Treaty of Accession (!), No 04.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, exported from the United Kingdom after the beginning of the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1976/77 milk year : 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (2), as last (a) the compensatory amounts fixed in the Annex to amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (3), and in Regulation (EEC) No 2050/75 will remain appli­ particular Article 5a thereof, cable in respect of exports to third countries,

(b) without prejudice to the compensatory amounts in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No force for the 1976/77 milk year, the United 233/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules Kingdom shall charge, on exports to other for the system of compensatory amounts for milk and milk products (4), and in particular Article 6 ( 1 ) Member States, an amount equal to the difference thereof, between the compensatory amount fixed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2050/75 and that which is applicable under the terms of the Regula­ Whereas the alignment with effect from the start of tion fixing the accession compensatory amounts the 1976/77 marketing year of butter prices in the for the 1976/77 milk year. new Member States, in pursuance of Article 52 (2) of the Treaty of Accession (5), will lead to a modification 2. However, paragraph 1 shall not apply to of the compensatory amounts layed down in Commis­ products in respect of which proof is furnished that sion Regulation (EEC) No 2050/75 of 25 July 1975(6); they were, from 15 March 1976 :

(a) produced in the United Kingdom, or Whereas in view of the marked reduction in the compensatory amounts applicable to butter in trade (b) exported to the United Kingdom within the between the United Kingdom and the other Member meaning of Article 4 of Commission Regulation States there is a risk of deflection of trade as a result of (EEC) No 269/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down speculative transactions ; detailed rules for the application of the system of accession compensatory amounts (7), as last Whereas in order to avoid such deflection it is advis­ amended by Regulation (EEC) No 121 /75 (8). able to provide that the compensatory amounts 3 . The United Kingdom shall take the necessary currently in operation should continue to apply after the beginning of the 1976/77 milk year in the case of measures with regard to the documents to be exports from the United Kingdom in respect of which produced as evidence for the purposes for paragraph it is not established that the product concerned was 2. Such measures shall include provision for the verifi­ cation of such documents . produced in or exported to the United Kingdom after the beginning of the new milk year ;

Article 2 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 March 1976 . (') OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5. (2) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 . It shall be applicable until 15 September 1976. (3) OJ No L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 9 . (4) OJ No L 28 , 1 . 2. 1973, p. 37. (5) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14. (7) OJ No L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 73 . 6) OJ No L 213, 11 . 8 . 1975, p. 42. (8) OJ No L 13, 18 . 1 . 1975, p. 23 .

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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