31976R2306

No L 260/ 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 24. 9 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2306/ 76 of 23 September 1976 temporarily suspending the private storage of Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of storage as laid down in Article 17 ( 1 ) of Commis­ COMMUNITIES , sion Regulation ( EEC) No 1107/68 of 27 July 1968 on detailed rules for intervention on the market in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses (5), as Economic Community, last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 250/76 (6) ; Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in particular Article 8 (5) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas, under Article 1 1 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 971 /68 of 15 July 1968 laying down general Article / rules for intervention on the market in Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses (3), as last amended 1 . Current storage contracts concluded under by Regulation ( EEC) No 473 /75 (4), intervention agen­ Article 10 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 971 /68 shall cies may be authorized, should the market situation so expire on the day this Regulation enters into force. require, to re-market some or all of the cheeses to 2. By way of derogation from Article 17 ( 1 ) of Regu­ which a storage contract relates ; whereas pursuant to lation ( EEC) No 1107/68 , aid shall be granted in paragraph 1 (c) of the said Article the storage contracts respect of the storage period completed on the day concluded by intervention agencies include a clause allowing for this ; specified in paragraph 1 , even where such period is of less than three months . Whereas the current trend of the market for the * cheeses in question shows a strong demand which Article 2 cannot be satisfied from the available supply ; whereas market prices have increased significantly in The conclusion of the storage contracts under Article consequence ; whereas, in order to restore the market 10 of Regulation ( EEC) No 971 /68 is suspended from balance, it is necessary to suspend temporarily private the day this Regulation enters into force until 31 March 1977 . storage of the cheeses in question and to provide for current storage contracts to be terminated in advance , so that the quantities at present in storage may be Article 3 released on to the market ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its Whereas in these circumstances provision must be publication of the Official Journal of the European made to waive the requirement of a minimum period Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 September 1976 .

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 13 . (2 ) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p . 9 . (3 ) OJ No L 166, 17. 7 . 1968 , p. 8 . (5) OJ No L 184, 29 . 7. 1968 , p. 29 . (4 ) OJ No L 52, 28 . 2. 1975, p . 23 . (6) OJ No L 30 , 5 . 2. 1976, p. 11 .