31976R2360

30 . 9 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 267/33

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2360/76 of 29 September 1976 supplementing Regulations (EEC) No 743/76 and ( EEC) No 803/76 laying down detailed rules for the granting of certain premiums for beef and veal as regards the event giving rise to payment of the premiums

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN order to calculate the amount of the premium in COMMUNITIES , national currency, the conversion rate valid on the day on which the animal reaches the age of six months should therefore be applied ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 797/76 makes provi­ sion for Member States to grant a premium for the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No slaughter of adult bovine animals other than cows ; 620/76 of 19 March 1976 on the grant of a premium whereas the event in which the premium becomes for the birth of calves during the 1976/77 marketing due and payable therefore occurs on the day on which year ('), and in particular Article 2 thereof, the animal to which the premium relates is slaugh­ tered or first marketed for slaughter if such should be Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the case ; 797/76 of 6 April 1976 authorizing Member States to Whereas the above definitions of the events in which grant a premium on the slaughter of certain adult bovine animals intended for slaughter during the the premiums become due and payable must be 1976/77 marketing year (2), and in particular Article 4 inserted in the Regulations laying down rules for ( 1 ) thereof, granting those premiums ; whereas it is therefore necessary to amend Commission Regulation (EEC) No 743/76 of 31 March 1976 laying down detailed Whereas, under Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation rules for the granting of a premium for the birth of (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules calves in the 1976/77 marketing year (4) and Commis­ for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No sion Regulation (EEC) No 803/76 of 7 April 1976 653/68 on conditions for alterations to the value of laying down detailed rules for the granting of a the unit of account used for the common agricultural slaughter premium for producers of bovine animals policy (J), for transactions carried out under the during the 1976/77 marketing year (5); common agricultural policy the sums owed by a Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation national currency and representing amounts fixed in are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ units of account, are to be paid on the basis of the rela­ ment Committee for Beef and Veal , tionship between the unit of account and the national currency which obtained at the time when the transac­ tion or part transaction was carried out ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas, under Article 6 of the abovementioned Regu­ lation , the time when a transaction is carried out is Article 1 considered as being the date on which occurs the event, as defined by Community rules, or in the The following paragraph 4 is hereby added to Article absence of and pending the adoption of such rules, by the rules of the Member States concerned, in which 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 743/76 : the amount involved in the transaction becomes due '4. The event, within the meaning of Article 6 and payable ; of Regulation (EEC) No 1 134/68, which gives enti­ tlement to the premium referred to in paragraph 1 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 620/76 provides for shall be considered as occurring on the day on the grant of a premium for the birth of calves during which the animal reaches the age of six months.' the 1976/77 marketing year where the calves are still alive six months after their birth ; whereas the event Article 2 in which the premium becomes due and payable to the producer occurs six months after the birth of the animal to which the premium relates ; whereas, in The following Article 8a is hereby added to Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 803 /76 : (') OJ No L 74, 20 . 3 . 1976, p . 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p. 8 . (4 ) OJ No L 86, 1 . 4 . 1976, p. 41 . (3 ) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 . (5) OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p. 19 .

No L 267/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 9 . 76

'Article 8a tion is applied, on the day when the animal is first marketed for slaughter.' The event, within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68 , which gives entitle­ Article 3 ment to the premium referred to in Article 1 shall be considered as occurring on the day on which This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day the animal to which the premium relates is following its publication in the Official Journal of slaughtered or, where Article 2 ( 1 ) of this Regula­ the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 September 1976.

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission