31976R2706

No L 307/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 9 . 11 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2706/ 76 of 8 November 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 laying down detailed rules for the sale of skimmed-milk powder for use in animal feed pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 563 / 76

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN the system of compulsory purchase, would be transi­ COMMUNITIES, tional only, in order not to impede the establishment and operation of new rules on the use of skimmed­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European milk powder in animal feed ; Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the of the market in milk and milk products ('), as last time limit set by its chairman , amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in particular Articles 7 (5) and 28 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 563/76 of 15 March 1976 on the compulsory purchase HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : of skimmed-milk powder held by intervention agen­ cies for use in animal feed (3), and in particular Article 6 ( 1 ) thereof, Article 1 Whereas in Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 of 31 March 1976 laying down The following Article 7a is inserted in Regulation detailed rules for the sale of skimmed-milk powder (EEC) No 753 / 76 : for use in animal feed pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 563/76 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) 'Article 7a No 2241 /76 (5), the price for the sale of skimmed­ milk powder was fixed at 5216 units of account ; 1 . If the attestation of purchase and denaturing whereas the approaching termination of the system issued in accordance with Article 6 is not used for instituted by Regulation (EEC) No 563/76 may make the purposes defined in Regulation ( EEC) No it difficult to market the quantities of skimmed-milk 563/76, the purchase price of the skimmed-milk powder purchased and denatured pursuant to Regula­ powder paid in accordance with Article 1 shall be tion (EEC) No 753/76 ; whereas in view of the size of reduced, on request, by 35 u.a./ lOO kg in respect existing stocks of skimmed-milk powder it seems of the quantities not yet imputed but covered by advisable, by making the price of skimmed-milk the attestation . powder comparable with that of other proteins used in feed for pigs and poultry, to enable manufacturers to 2. The application for reimbursement of the use denatured skimmed-milk powder which has been amount of the reduction in price referred to in the subject of an attestation of purchase and dena­ paragraph 1 may be lodged with the selling inter­ turing as referred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) vention agency only by the buyer of skimmed­ No 753/ 76 that can no longer be used for the milk powder whose name and address are in purposes of Regulation (EEC) No 563/76 ; whereas section 3 of the attestation . Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1285/70 of 29 June 1970 laying down a special measure for the disposal of skimmed-milk powder bought in by intervention agen­ The application together with the attestation of cies (6), enables the product to be sold at a reduced purchase and denaturing, to be kept by the inter­ price if it is intended for use as aforesaid ; whereas, vention agency, must be submitted by 28 February 1977 at the latest . however, for reasons of efficiency, this new provision should apply only to attestations of purchase and dena­ turing, and not to extracts therefrom ; 3 . Within one month of receipt of the applica­ tion and the attestation , the intervention agency of Whereas this scheme , designed as it is to facilitate the the Member State concerned shall pay or have the solution of problems resulting from termination of amount corresponding to the reduction in price (>) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 13 . paid and for its conversion into national currency (2) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p . 9 . shall use the coefficient laid down in Article 1 . (3) OJ No L 67, 15 . 3 . 1976, p . 18 . (4) OJ No L 88 , 1 . 4 . 1976, p . 1 . (5 ) OJ No L 252, 16 . 9 . 1976, p . 15 . 4. The attestations of purchase and denaturing (b) OJ No L 144, 2 . 7. 1970 , p . 1 . referred to in Article 6 shall be issued only for

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quantities of skimmed-milk powder denatured or '— have been the subject of an application for a incorporated before 1 February 1977.' reduction in price pursuant to Article 7a.'

Article 3 Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day A fourth indent as follows is added to Article 10 (b) of following its publication in the Official Journal of Regulation (EEC) No 753/76 : the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 November 1976 . For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission