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7 . 10 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 256/ 19
COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2219/77 of 6 October 1977 making special provision for the application of accession compensatory amounts on certain milk products in trade with the United Kingdom
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Tariff exported from the United Kingdom on or after COMMUNITIES, 1 January 1978 to other Member States or to third countries, the United Kingdom shall charge an Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European amount equal to the compensatory amount fixed in Economic Community, the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 918/77. Having regard to the Treaty of Accession ( J ), 2. However, paragraph 1 shall not apply to Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No products in respect of which proof is furnished that, 233/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules on or after 1 January 1978, they were : for the system of compensatory amounts for milk and milk products (2), and in particular Article 6 ( 1 ) (a) produced in the United Kingdom, or thereof, (b) exported from other Member States to the United Whereas the last alignment of prices with effect from Kingdom on or after 1 January 1978 . 1 January 1978 in pursuance of Article 52 (2) and (4) of the Act of Accession (3) will result in the discontinu ance of the compensatory amounts laid down in 3 . The United Kingdom shall take the necessary Commission Regulation (EEC) No 918/77 of 29 April measures with regard to the documents to be 1977 (4) ; produced as evidence for the purposes of paragraph 2. Such measures shall include a provision for the verifi Whereas, because of the relatively high level of cation of such documents . compensatory amounts currently applicable to certain dairy products in trade between the United Kingdom and the other Member States there is a risk of deflec tion of trade, as a result of speculative transactions, Article 2 with regard to products imported into the United Kingdom before 1 January 1978 and to home produced products which can be substituted for the With regard to products falling within heading Nos said products ; 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 of the Common Customs Tariff exported from the United Kingdom before 1 Whereas in order to avoid such deflection it is neces January 1978 and imported into another Member sary to provide that an amount equal to the compensa State on or after that date, the United Kingdom shall tory amount currently in operation shall apply after charge an amount equal to the compensatory amount 31 December 1977 in the case of exports from the fixed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 918/77. United Kingdom where the product concerned cannot be shown to have been produced in or exported to the United Kingdom on or after 1 January 1978 ; Article 3 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage The day to be regarded as the operative date in deter ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, mining the date of exportation shall be the day on which the customs accept the document in which the declarant states his intention to export a product. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 1 Article 4 1 . With regard to products falling within heading Nos 04.02, 04.03 and 04.04 of the Common Customs This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1978 . (») OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5. (2) OJ No L 28, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 37. (3) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. b) OJ No L 116, 7. 5. 1977, p. 23. It shall apply until 30 June 1978 .
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 6 October 1977 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President