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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 803/76 of 7 April 1976 laying down detailed rules for the granting of a slaughter premium for producers of bovine animals during the 1976/77 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN regard as eligible for the premium provided for in COMMUNITIES, Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 797/76. Such minimum weights shall not be less than 330 kg live Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European weight. Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 797/76 of 6 April 1976 authorizing Member States to 2. The maximum amount referred to in paragraph grant a premium on the slaughter of certain adult 2 of the said Article shall apply to animals whose bovine animals intended for slaughtering during the weight corresponds to the average weight of all the 1976/77 marketing year ( 1 ), and in particular Article 4 eligible animals as recorded in a Member State or thereof, region of a Member State during a period to be deter­ mined . Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 797/76 provides that Member States other than those referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 620/76 (2) shall be autho­ rized for the 1976/77 marketing year to grant for the In the case of an animal whose weight exceeds the benefit of producers a premium for the slaughter of average weight, the maximum amount actually appli­ certain adult bovine animals of Community origin cable shall be equal in units of account to 45 times the ratio between the weight of such animal and that intended for slaughter other than cows ; whereas there average weight. should be a further requirement that this premium be granted only in respect of animals born and reared in the Community which are slaughtered in the Member State granting the premium ; whereas, however, under The period referred to in the first subparagraph and certain conditions animals born and reared in the the average weights shall be established in accordance United Kingdom should be entitled to this premium with the procedure laid down in Article 27 of Regula­ if they are slaughtered in Ireland ; tion (EEC) No 805/ 68 .

Whereas the meat from animals in respect of which the said premium has been granted should not be the 3 . Member States shall establish the rules for equi­ subject of intervention buying-in in the case of trade valences between slaughtered weight and live weight, between Member States ; account being taken of the form in which the carcase Whereas rules should be laid down for the calculation is presented . of the maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 797/76 ; Whereas the premiums financed by the Guarantee Section of the EAGGF constitute interventions on the Article 2 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 1 . Member States may provide that the premium policy (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No referred to in Article 1 shall be granted at the time 2788 /72 (4 ) ; when an animal is first marketed for slaughter. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Member States shall inform the Commission when ment Committee for Beef and Veal , they make such a provision . HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 2 . Animals in respect of which premiums have been granted must be slaughtered within 28 days from 1 . Member States shall specify the categories , quali­ the date on which they are first marketed and during ties and minimum weights of the animals which they the 1976/ 77 marketing year. The Member States concerned shall take measures to ensure that such (') See page 8 of this Official Journal . animals are permanently marked in such a way as to (: ) OJ No L 74, 20 . 3 . 1976, p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4 . 1970, p . 13 . rule out the possibility of a further premium being (4) OJ No L 295, 30 . 12. 1972, p . 1 . granted .

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3 . The Member States shall take the necessary Article 6 measures to ensure that in appropriate cases an amount eaual to the premium granted is recovered . Member States which grant this premium shall take all necessary measures to ensure that the provisions of this Regulation are complied with . Article 3

1 . The premium referred to in Article 1 shall only Article 7 be granted in respect of animals born and reared in the Community and slaughtered in the Member State 1 . Member States which grant this premium shall that grants the premium. notify the Commission of the measures taken to implement the premium referred to in Article 1 not 2. Nevertheless the United Kingdom may grant the later than 10 days after the day on which such premium for animals born and reared there and measures come into effect . slaughtered in Ireland provided that the slaughtering in Ireland has been proved by means of a certificate to 2. Member States which grant this premium shall : the effect that the animals have been slaughtered during the period laid down in Article 2 (2). (a) during the week to which the notifications relate, notify the Commission of the amount of premiums foreseen which they intend to grant Article 4 during that week, taking into account the market situation and the provisions of Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 797/76, 1 . Beef and veal from categories of animals that are (b) not later than 1 5 days after the end of the week to eligible in a Member State making use of the authori­ which the notification relates, notify the Commis­ zation in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 797/76 shall not be bought in by intervention agencies in sion of the number and approximate weight of the other Member States . animals in respect of which entitlement to the premium was established during each week, broken down by specific category pursuant to Beef and veal from animals slaughtered in the circum­ Article 1 , as well as of the amount of the stances referred to in Article 3 (2) may not be bought premiums actually granted. in for intervention nor may they benefit from the conditions provided for in Article 5.

Article 8 2. If the meat referred in paragraph 1 is offered for intervention in a Member State making use of the said authorization , an amount equal to the premium appli­ 1 . Within the meaning of Article 3 of Regulation cable in that Member State on the day of slaughter (EEC) No 797/76, EAGGF financing shall apply in shall be paid to the competent authorities by the respect of animals whose entitlement to the premium seller at the time of the submission to intervention of was established between 1 September 1976 and the the meat from the eligible animals. end of the 1976/77 marketing year.

2. The amounts recovered by Member States Article 5 pursuant to Articles 2 (3) and 4 (2) shall be deducted from the expenditure to be borne by the EAGGF, to the extent that expenditure in respect thereof has If the United Kingdom grants the premium referred been charged to the Community. to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 797/76, Ireland and the United Kingdom shall take all neces­ sary measures to ensure that meat from categories of adult bovine animals eligible for the premium, origi­ Article 9 nating in Ireland and intended for consumption in the United Kingdom, shall receive the same financial advantages as those resulting from the granting of the This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its premium provided for in the said Article for meat publication in the Official Journal of the European derived from animals slaughtered in the United Communities. It shall apply with effect from 15 March 1976 . Kingdom .

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

Done at Brussels, 7 April 1976 . For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission