31976R2311

25 . 9 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 261 / 3

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 2311 /76 of 20 September 1976 temporarily suspending the Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricul­ tural products for use mainly as feedingstuffs

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN measures to be taken and their temporary nature and COMMUNITIES, the absence of any provision in the Regulation on the common organization of the market in certain Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European products listed in Annex II to the Treaty for dealing Economic Community, and in particular Article 103 with such a situation with the necessary speed may be thereof, taken to justify recourse to Article 103 of the Treaty as Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No an exceptional measure, subject to later integration of 827/68 of 28 June 1968 on the common organization this measure into the common agricultural policy, of the market in certain products listed in Annex II to the Treaty ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : No 1 067/74 (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , Article 1

Whereas the drought in 1976 has severely reduced the Until 31 March 1977 the Common Customs Tariff availability in the Community of a number of duties on the products listed in the Annex shall be products normally used for animal feed ; whereas this totally suspended . situation has led to an increased demand for substitute products for use in feeding animals or for incorpora­ Article 2 tion in compound feed ; whereas, as a result, the prices for these products on the Community market The measures to be taken pursuant to Article 59 (4) of have risen to a degree which appreciably increases the Act of Accession for the products listed in the production costs and is indirectly likely to increase Annex and, where necessary, the detailed rules for the the cost of living ; application of this Regulation shall be taken in accor­ dance with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of Whereas to forestall such a development and increase Regulation No 136/ 66/ EEC (*). supplies of these products on the Community market, it is necessary that the Common Customs Tariff duties on these products should be totally and tempor­ Article 3 arily suspended ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas the suddenness of the situation with which following its publication in the Official Journal of the Community is confronted, the urgency of the the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 20 September 1976 . For the Council

The President M. van der STOEL

(') OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 196X , p . 16 . (2 ) OJ No L 120 , 1 . 5 . 1974, p . 2 . ( 3 ) OJ No 172 , 30 . 9 . 1966, p . 3025 / 66 .

No L 261 /4 Official Journal of the European Communities 25 . 9 . 76

ANNEX

CCT heading Description No

07.05 Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split : B. Other : I. Peas (including chick peas) and beans (of the species Phaseolus) II . Lentils III . Other 07.06 Manioc , arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and other similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh or dried, whole or sliced ; sago pith : B. Other 12.08 Locust beans, fresh or dried, whether or not kibbled or ground, but not further prepared ; fruit kernels and other vegetable products of a kind used primarily for human food , not falling within any other heading : A. Locust beans 12.10 Mangolds, swedes, fodder roots ; hay, lucerne, clover, sainfoin , forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products : A. Mangolds, swedes and other fodder roots 23.02 Bran , sharps and other residues derived from the sifting, milling or working of cereals or of leguminous vegetables : B. Of leguminous vegetables 23.06 Products of vegetable origin of a kind used for animal food , not elsewhere specified or included : B. Other 23.07 Sweetened forage ; other preparations of a kind used in animal feeding : A. Fish or marine mammal solubles C. Other