31976R0797

No L 93 / 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 4 . 76

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 797 / 76 of 6 April 1976 authorizing Member States to grant a premium on the slaughter of certain adult bovine animals intended for slaughter during the 1976/77 marketing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN It shall be calculated in such a way that, when a COMMUNITIES, premium is granted the sum of the market price recorded in the Member State which avails itself of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the authorization referred to in paragraph I and of the Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 amount of the premium actually granted does not thereof, exceed on average and over the marketing year as a Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , whole, 85 % of the guide price applicable in that Member State . At no time may that sum exceed 88 % Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ of the latter guide price. ment ('), Whereas the intervention price applicable in the beef and veal sector for the 1976/77 marketing year was Article 2 fixed at a level below that resulting from the imple­ mentation of Article 6 of Council Regulation ( EEC) The intervention buying-in price of meat coming No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ from animals which have been the subject of a tion of the market in beef and veal (2), as last amended premium shall be reduced by the amount of the by Regulation (EEC) No 568/76 (3) ; whereas the premium actually granted . Member States should therefore be authorized to grant further aid to producers of bovine animals in order to enable them to secure incomes in keeping with the Article 3 increase in the guide price ; By way of derogation from Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation Whereas this objective may be met by granting such a (EEC) No 729/ 70 , financing by the European Agricul­ premium for the slaughter of certain adult bovine tural Guidance and Guarantee Fund shall be limited animals of Community origin intended for slaughter, to 25 % of the amount of the premiums actually other than cows ; granted during the period from 1 September 1 976 Whereas this premium constitutes an intervention on until the end of the 1976/77 marketing year. the internal market within the meaning of Article 3 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural Article 4 policy (4 ), as last amended by the Act of Accession (5 ) ; whereas, however, the contribution of the European 1 . Detailed rules for the application of this Regula­ Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund towards tion shall be adopted according to the procedure laid the financing of this premium should be limited, down in Article 27 of Regulation ( EEC) No 805/68 .

2 . The rules referred to in paragraph 1 may include HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in particular : Article 1 (a) definition of the categories and qualities of 1 . The Member States other than those referred to animals which may be the subject of a premium ; in Regulation ( EEC) No 620/76 (6) are authorized, for (b) measures necessary, in respect of live animals and the 1976/77 marketing year, to grant for the benefit of meat, to avoid disturbances in trade which result producers a premium for the slaughter of certain adult from the application of the premium system ; bovine animals of Community origin intended for (c) conditions under which the premiums can be slaughter, other than cows . granted at the first marketing of adult bovine 2 . The amount of the premium which is variable in animals intended for slaughter. time may under no circumstances exceed 45 units of account per adult bovine animal of an average weight to be determined . Article 5

(') OJ No C 5 .?, 8 . 3 . 1976, p. 24 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its (-) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 24 . publication in the Official Journal of the European (-') OJ No L 67 , 1.5 . 3 . 1976 , p. 28 . Communities. (4 ) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4 . 1970, p. 13 . (>) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14. ( b) O ] No L 74, 20 . 3 . 1976, p. 1 . It shall be applicable from 15 March 1976 .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 6 April 1976 . For the Council

The President J. HAMILIUS