31978R0608

No L 83 / 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 3 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC ) No 608 / 78 of 29 March 1978 on the storage in Belgium of skimmed-milk powder from French intervention stocks

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas certain provisions ot Commission Regulation COMMUNITIES , ( EEC ) No 1722/ 77 of 28 July 1977 laying down common detailed rules for the application of Regula­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tion ( EEC) No 1055 / 77 on the storage and movement Economic Community , of products bought in by an intervention agency (-1 ) Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No and of Regulation ( EEC) No 1687 / 76 of 30 June 1976 1055/77 of 17 May 1977 on the storage and move­ laying down common detailed rules for verifying the ment of products bought in by an intervention use and/or destination of products from interven­ agency ('), and in particular Article 4 thereof, tion ( 3 ), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 525 / 78 ("*), are applicable to such products ; Whereas 160 tonnes of skimmed-milk powder from French intervention stocks , originally intended as a Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation food-aid operation with delivery at Antwerp, have are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ remained in storage at that port ; whereas the said ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products , skimmed-milk powder has remained under customs or equivalent administrative control ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas outlets for this product may be found in Belgium ; whereas , consequently , to avoid additional costs, the said skimmed-milk powder should not be Article 1 transported back to the Member State of the selling intervention agency ; For the purposes of Articles 2 and 6 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 1055 / 77 , the provisions of Regulation ( EEC ) Whereas Regulation ( EEC) No 1055 / 77 provides that No 1687 / 76 and of Article 5 of Regulation ( EEC) No products held by an intervention agency outside the 1722/ 77 shall apply to 160 tonnes of skimmed-milk territory of the Member State within whose jurisdic­ powder from the French intervention agency currently tion it falls are to be disposed of at the prices and held in customs warehouses in Antwerp . subject to the conditions laid down or to be laid down for the place of storage ; whereas disposal at that price level presupposes that the products are released for Article 2 home use in the Member State of storage and that no amounts to be granted or levied under the common This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day agricultural policy are applied when the products are following its publication in the Official Journal of released ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 29 March 1978 .

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(2 ) OJ No L 189 , 29 . 7 . 1977 , p. 36 . ( 3 ) OJ No L 190 , 14 . 7 . 1976 , p. 1 . (>) OJ No L 128 , 24. 5 . 1977, p. 1 . (4 ) OJ No L 73 , 15 . 3 . 1978 , p. 8 .