31976R1861

31 . 7 . 76 No L 206/ 1 Official Journal of the European Communities

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1861 /76 of 27 July 1976 on the transfer of skimmed-milk powder to the Italian inteirvention agency by the intervention agencies of the other Member States

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas detailed rules should be laid down for taking COMMUNITIES, over the products and for transferring responsibility for them ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas the provisions covering the accounting side of this operation should be aligned on the arrange­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ments laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization 2306/70 of 10 November 1970 on the financing of of the market in milk and milk products (1), as last intervention expenditure in respect of the domestic amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in markets in milk and milk products (5), as last particular Article 7 (4) thereof, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 844/76 (6) ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas such measures imply that the Guarantee 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and common agricultural policy (3), as last amended by Guarantee Fund should bear the cost of transport, Regulation (EEC) No 2788/72 (4), and in particular Article 3 (2) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas the Community market is characterized by Article 1 very large stocks of skimmed-milk powder ; whereas these stocks are, however, primarily held by certain ! . A quantity of 1 0 000 metric tons of skimmed­ Member States, while Italy in particular possesses no milk powder held by the intervention agencies of the such stocks because of the particular nature of its milk other Member States shall be made available to the production ; Italian intervention agency for use in animal feeding­ stuffs . Whereas in contrast to the difficulties in marketing the surpluses in the Member States concerned, Italy is 2. The arrangements for applying this Article shall experiencing supply difficulties, which are be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid compounded by the need for feedingstuffs after the down in Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68. livestock is next brought in from pasture, since it has These arrangements shall establish which intervention only been possible to make up small reserves of agencies are to make the skimmed-milk powder avail­ feedingstuffs from domestic production owing to the able and how it is to be transported. drought ;

Article 2 Whereas in order to alleviate these problems it seems advisable to make available to the Italian intervention 1 . The intervention agencies holding the products agency part of the quantities of skimmed-milk powder which are still available in intervention in the rest of referred to in Article 1 shall enter the quantities of skimmed-milk powder as a zero debit in the account the Community ; referred to in Article 3 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 2306/70 . (') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13 . (2) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 9 . Q) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 13 . (5) OJ No L 249, 17. 11 . 1970, p. 4. (4) OJ No L 295, 30 . 12. 1972, p. 1 . (<>) OJ No L 204, 30. 7. 1976, p. 1 .

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2. The Italian intervention agency shall enter the Article 3 quantities of skimmed-milk powder of which it has taken delivery as a zero credit in the account referred to in paragraph 1 . 3. The transport costs incurred by the intervention This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day agencies shall be entered in the account referred to in following its publication in the Official Journal of Article 3 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 2306/70. the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 July 1976. For the Council The President M. van der STOEL