31976R1492

No L 167/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 6 . 76

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1492/76 of 22 June 1976 fixing, for the 1976/77 marketing year, the production aid for tinned pineapple and the minimum price to be paid to pineapple producers

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community, For the 1976/77 marketing year, the production aid Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No for tinned pineapple referred to in Article 1 of Regula­ 1929/75 of 22 July 1975 establishing a system of tion ( EEC) No 1929 /75 shall be 30 units of account production aid for tinned pineapple ('), and in parti­ per 100 kilogrammes, including immediate packaging. < cular Article 4 (2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , Article 2 Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1929/75 establishes a system of production aid for tinned For the 1976/77 marketing year, the minimum price pineapple processed from pineapples harvested in the referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No Community ; whereas the object of such aid is to 1929/75 shall be 15-25 units of account per 100 kilo­ offset the difference between the Community offer grammes . price and the prices charged by third countries for tinned pineapple ; Article 3 Whereas, under Article 3 of the said Regulation, the granting of such aid is subject to the payment to This Regulation shall enter into force on the day producers of fresh pineapples of at least a minimum following its publication in the Official Journal of price ; whereas that price must be fixed so as to ensure the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 a fair remuneration to the producers concerned, June 1976 .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 22 June 1976. For the Council

The President

J. HAMILIUS

(') OJ No L 198 , 29 . 7. 1975, p. 13 .