31978R1047

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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1047 / 78 of 19 May 1978 laying down detailed rules of application for the granting of a premium for the birth of calves for a further period of 12 months

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN animal to which the premium relates ; whereas, in COMMUNITIES , order to calculate the amount of the premium in national currency, the conversion rate valid on the day Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European on which the animal reaches the age of six months Economic Community, should therefore be applied ;

Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 997/78 of 12 May 1978 granting a premium for the are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ birth of calves during the 1978 /79 marketing year ('), ment Committee for Beef and Veal , and in particular Article 2 thereof,

Whereas, under Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC) No 997/78 , Member States which apply the system of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : premiums for the birth of calves referred to in Article 1 of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 871 / 77 of 26 April Article 1 1977 granting a premium for the birth of calves during the 1977/ 78 marketing year ( 2 ), are to continue 1 . The premium referred to in Article 1 of Regula­ to grant a premium for every calf born on their terri­ tion ( EEC) No 997/78 shall be granted at the request tory during a further period of 12 months and still alive six months after its birth ; whereas the calves of the producer, provided it is proved to the satisfac­ tion of the competent authority that the calf was born entitled to this premium should be identified to avoid fraud ; in the Member State concerned during the 12-month period referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) thereof, that it has been identified and that it is still alive six months Whereas , under Article 4 ( 2) of Council Regulation later . ( EEC) No 1 134/ 68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the implementation of Regulation ( EEC) No 653 / 68 on conditions for alterations to the value of 2. The full amount of this premium of 35 units of the unit of account used for the common agricultural account shall be paid in a single payment not later policy (3 ), for transactions carried out under the than 60 days after the date of the approval of the appli­ common agricultural policy the sums owed by a cation by the competent authority. Member State or a duly authorized body, expressed in 3 . The start of the 12-month period may vary national currency and representing amounts fixed in between 3 March and 4 April 1978 from one adminis­ units of account, are to be paid on the basis of the rela­ trative region of the Member State concerned to tionship between the unit of account and the national another . currency which obtained at the time when the transac­ tion or part transaction was carried out ; 4. The event, within the meaning of Article 6 of Whereas, under Article 6 of the abovementioned Regu­ Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68 , which gives entitle­ lation , the time when a transaction is carried out is ment to the premium referred to in paragraph 1 shall considered as being the date on which occurs the be deemed to occur on the day on which the animal event , as defined by Community rules , or in the reaches the age of six months . absence of and pending the adoption of such rules , by Article 2 the rules of the Member States concerned , in which the amount involved in the transaction becomes due Member States granting the said premium shall take and payable ; all necessary measures to ensure that the provisions of Whereas Regulation ( EEC) No 997/ 78 provides for this Regulation are complied with . the grant of a premium for the birth of calves for a further period of 12 months where the calves are still Article 3 alive six months after their birth ; whereas the event in which the premium becomes due and payable to 1 . Member States granting the said premium shall the producer occurs six months after the birth of the notify the Commission of all measures taken to imple­ ment the premium arrangements not later than 10 (') 0 | No L 130 , IK . 5 . 1978 , p . 4 . days after the date on which such measures come into (: ) O") No L 106, 29 . 4 . 1977, p . 16. (') OJ No L 188 , 1 . X. 1968 , p . 1 . effect and in particular those relating to the identifica­

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tion of the calves by means of an indelible mark or Article 4 any other equivalent method.

2. Member States granting the said premium shall This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its notify the Commission of the number of animals publication in the Official Journal of the European becoming entitled to the premium during each Communities. It shall apply from the day following month not later than one month after the end of the that on which the application of the system laid down relevant month . in Article 1 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 , 19 May 1978 .

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President