31977R1373

No L 156/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 25 . 6 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1373/77 of 24 June 1977 determining the maximum guaranteed price for milk in the United Kingdom for the period 1 May to 31 December 1977

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN and that resulting from the intervention prices effec­ COMMUNITIES , tive in the Community ; Having regard to the Treaty of Accession (*), Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, 749/73 of 19 March 1973 on production subsidies which the United Kingdom is authorized to retain in respect of certain agricultural products (2), and in parti­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : cular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 872/77 of 26 Article 1 April 1977 fixing the target price for milk and the intervention prices for butter, skimmed-milk powder For the purpose of the operation in respect of milk and Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and milk products of Article 54 of the Act of Acces­ for the 1977/78 milk year (3), provides for the prices to sion, the maximum guaranteed price for milk in the be raised ; whereas similar arrangements should be United Kingdom for the period 1 May to 31 made as regards the maximum guaranteed price for December 1977 shall be 18-54 units of account per milk in the United Kingdom ; 100 kilograms.

Whereas under Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No Article 2 749/73 the guaranteed price for milk applicable to the standard quantity may be increased at most, to take This Regulation shall enter into force on the day account of the decrease arising out of the alignment following its publication in the Official Journal of of prices, by an amount equal to the difference the European Communities. between the support level for milk resulting from the intervention prices effective in the United Kingdom It shall apply with effect from 1 May 1977.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 June 1977 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(!) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (2 ) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1973 , p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 106, 29 . 4 . 1977 , p . 17 .