31977R0871

No L 106/ 16 29 . 4 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 871 /77 of 26 April 1977 on the grant of a premium for the birth of calves during the 1977/78 marketing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1 . Member States which apply the system of a Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 premium for the birth of calves referred to in Article thereof, 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 620/76 shall continue to Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, grant a premium for every calf born on their territory during a further period of 12 months and still alive six Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ months after its birth . ment (!), 2. The amount of the new premium referred to in Whereas the intervention price applicable in the beef paragraph 1 shall be 35 units of account, payable by and veal sector for the 1977/78 marketing year was the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural fixed at a level below that resulting from the imple­ Guidance and Guarantee Fund . It shall be paid in a mentation of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) single instalment. No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ Article 2 tion of the market in beef and veal (2 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (3) ; whereas the Detailed rules for the application of this Reglation Member States which apply the system of a premium shall be adopted according to the procedure laid down for the birth of calves referred to in Article 6 of Regu­ in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 . lation (EEC) No 620/75 (4) should therefore continue Article 3 to grant this premium for a further period of 12 months ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Whereas this premium constitutes an intervention on Comm unities. the internal market within the meaning of Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April It shall be applicable from the day following that on 1970 on the financing on the common agricultural which the application of the system laid down by policy (5), as last amended by the Act of Accession (6), Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 620/76 ends .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 26 April 1977. For the Council

The President

J. SILKIN

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