31977R2291

20 . 10 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 268 / 5

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 2291 / 77 of 18 October 1977 on the granting of aid for the consumption of butter in Italy

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN avoid such disturbances on the Italian market and to COMMUNITIES, avoid discrimination against the consumers in Italy in comparison with consumers in the other Member Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European States, it is necessary to provide for the possibility of Economic Community, subsidizing a corresponding quantity of butter Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No produced in Italy on the same conditions as the butter sold in the other Member States in the framework of 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization the said measure, of the market in milk and milk products (l ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 559/76 (2), and in particular Article 12 (2) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Article 1 Whereas the situation on the butter market is charac­ terized by large quantities available and it is therefore 1 . Aid shall be granted in Italy for the direct advisable to increase the consumption of butter by all consumption of butter produced in that Member appropriate means ; State . Whereas the reduction of final consumer prices is an 2. The aid is hereby fixed at 70 units of account efficient means of attaining this objective ; whereas to per 100 kilograms. this end the Commission envisages the adoption of an ad hoc measure based on Article 6 (7) of Regulation Article 2 (EEC) No 804/68 involving an additional reduction in the price of butter bought for direct consumption in The detailed rules for the application of this Regula­ view of the Christmas and New Year holidays ; tion shall lay down, in particular, a time limit for the packaging of the butter in small packets, the Whereas the implementation of the abovementioned maximum amount of butter which may benefit from measure presents particular problems in Italy ; the aid referred to in Article 1 and provisions guaran­ whereas, in fact, the Italian butter market is character­ teeing that the butter concerned will be consumed in ized on the one hand by the absence of public stocks Italy. and of quantities under private storage contracts, and on the other hand, by an indigenous production Article 3 which cannot be sold to intervention and the normal sales of which would be jeopardized by the admission, This Regulation shall enter into force on the day under the abovementioned measure, of large supple­ following its publication in the Official Journal of mentary quantities of butter ; whereas, in order to the European Communities.

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

Done at Luxembourg, 18 October 1977.

For the Council The President

H. SIMONET

1) OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13. (2) OJ No L 67, 15. 3 . 1976, p. 9 .