31978R0997

No L 130/4 18 . 5 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 997/78 of 12 May 1978 granting a premium (or the birth of calves during the 1978/79 marketing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April COMMUNITIES, 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (9), as last amended by the Act of Accession, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Article 1 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ ment ('), 1 . Member States which apply the system of a Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and premium for the birth of calves 'referred to in Regula­ Social Committee (2), tion (EEC) No 871 /77 shall continue to grant a premium for every calf born on their territory during Whereas the intervention price applicable in the beef a further period of 12 months and still alive six and veal sector for the 1978/79 marketing year was months after its birth . fixed at a level below that resulting from the imple­ mentation of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) 2. The amount of the new premium referred to in No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­ paragraph 1 shall be 35 units of account, payable by tion of the market in beef and veal (3), as last amended the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural by Regulation (EEC) No 425/77 (4) ; whereas the Guidance and Guarantee Fund. It shall be paid in a Member States which, during the three preceding single instalment. marketing years, have applied the system of a premium for the birth of calves referred to in Article Article 2 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 464/75 of 27 February 1975 establishing systems of premiums for Detailed rules of the application of this Regulation producers of bovine animals (5), as amended by Regula­ shall be adopted according to the procedure laid down tion (EEC) No 390/76 (6), and as extended by Council in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 . Regulation (EEC) No 620/76 of 19 March 1976 granting a premium for the birth of calves during the Article 3 1976/77 marketing year (7), and Council Regulation (EEC) No 871 /77 of 26 April 1977 granting a This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its premium for the birth of calves during the 1977/78 publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. marketing year (8), should therefore continue to grant this premium for a further period of 1 2 months ; It shall apply from the day following that on which Whereas this premium constitutes an intervention on the application of the system laid down by Article 1 the internal market within the meaning of Article 3 of of Regulation (EEC) No 871 /77 ends.

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

Done at Brussels, 12 May 1978 . For the Council The President P. DALSAGER

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