31977R0143

No L 22/ 26 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 1 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 143 / 77 of 25 January 1977 repealing the protective measures applicable to straw exports

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN A charge shall be levied on exports to non­ COMMUNITIES , member countries of products falling within subheading 12.10 B of the Common Customs Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Tariff . Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No The amount of this charge shall be : 827/68 of 28 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in certain products listed in Annex II to — seven units of account per 100 kg of lucerne, the Treaty (•), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) sainfoin , clover, lupines, vetches and similar No 1 067/74 (2), and in particular Article 3 (2) thereof, forage products, dehydrated by artificial heat­ drying, except hay and kale, forage and Whereas, having regard to the difficulties in the products containing hay, supply of feedingstuffs in the Community last summer, the export of straw and fodder products to — five units of account per 100 kg for the other certain non-member countries led the Commission in products falling within subheading 12.10 B of July 1976 to the view that the Community market the Common Customs Tariff.' was thereby threatened with serious disturbance which could endanger the objectives of Article 39 of the Treaty ; whereas in order to meet this situation the Commission , by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 667/ 76 (3), as Article 2 last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2081 /76 (4), adopted protective measures in respect of exports of Article 1 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1667/76 is the products in question ; hereby repealed . Whereas , in view of the trend in the fodder market in recent months and the different uses of straw, the Community market is no longer threatened with Article 3 serious disturbance as a result of exporting straw ; whereas therefore the protective measures applicable to these products should be repealed , This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : It shall apply, however, at the request of those Article 1 concerned, to operations in respect of which the Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1667/76 is hereby customs export formalities have been completed on or amended to read as follows : after 10 January 1977 .

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

Done at Brussels , 25 January 1977 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

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