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7 . 8 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 215/23

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1966/76 of 6 August 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 677/76 laying down detailed rules for the applica­ tion of the system for compulsory purchase of skimmed-milk powder provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 563/76

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Article 3 COMMUNITIES , Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 0 (4) is amended to read as follows : Economic Community, '4. The security shall be forfeit where the party Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No concerned : 563/76 of 15 March 1976 on the compulsory purchase of skimmed-milk powder held by intervention agen­ (a) has not renounced his right to put into free cies for use in feedingstuffs (J ), and in particular circulation, or Article 9 ( 1 ) thereof, (b) except in the case of force majeure, has not Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 677/76 of furnished proof of one of the matters referred 26 March 1976 laying down detailed rules for the to in paragraph 1 (b), (c), (f) and (g) by 1 March application of the system for compulsory purchase of 1977, one of those referred to in paragraph ( 1 ) skimmed-milk powder provided for in Regulation (d) and (e) by 30 April 1977.' (EEC) No 563/76 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 925/76 (3), laid down the period of validity of the protein certificate and also the period for the Article 4 production of the proof referred to in Article 10 permitting release of the security ; Article 1 2 is amended to read as follows : Whereas the reduction of these periods could facilitate the orderly achievement of the objectives of the Article 12 system introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 563/76 without causing any practical difficulties ; Except in the case of force majeure, where the Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation "protein certificate" is not submitted to the issuing are in accordance with the opinions of all the relevant agency by 1 March 1977, the quantities of management committees, products for which the certificate was issued shall be regarded as having been put into free circula­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion, except for any quantities in respect of which the holder of the certificate submits one or more Article 1 extracts therefrom for which , or for part of which, no attribution has been made .' Regulation (EEC) No 677/76 is amended as shown in the following Articles .

Article 2 Article 5 The following subparagraph is added to Article 1 (2) : ' However, certificates issued pursuant to an applica­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the day tion submitted after 8 August 1976 shall be valid following its publication in the Official Journal of for only one month from their date of issue .' the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 6 August 1976 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

C ) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 18 . (2) OJ No L 81 , 27 . 3 . 1976, p . 23 . (3) OJ No L 210 , 4 . 8 . 1976, p . 16 .