31978R1388

No L 167/42 Official Journal of the European Communities 24 . 6 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1388/78 of 23 June 1978 applying a special intervention measure for common wheat of bread-making quality at the start of the 1978/79 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion measures to support the development of the COMMUNITIES, market in common wheat of bread-making quality (4) are, for the abovementioned reasons, likely to be satis­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fied at the start of the 1978/79 marketing year ; Economic Community, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­ ment Committee for Cereals, tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 254/78 (2), and in particular Article 8 (4) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas provision has been made for supporting the Article 1 production of common wheat of good bread-making quality at the level of the reference price ; whereas The intervention agencies of all Member States shall provision should also be made for supporting the buy in at the reference price, in accordance with market prices of common wheat of minimum bread­ Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1629/77, any quanti­ making quality, where necessary by ' reference to the ties of common wheat of bread-making quality offered said reference price ; to them during August, September and October of the 1978 /79 marketing year. Whereas the insufficient gap laid down between the reference price and the target price of maize has led The delivery of the quantities offered must take place to some concern regarding the behaviour of the not later than 30 November 1978 . market at the start of the marketing year ; whereas, Such purchases shall be made in any of the interven­ therefore, in accordance with Article 8 of Regulation tion centres laid down for common wheat, under the (EEC) No 2727/75, provision should be made to apply conditions laid down in Articles 1 and 2 of Regulation special intervention measures by means of buying in (EEC) No 2738/75. any quantities of common wheat of bread-making quality offered to intervention agencies at the start of Where delivery takes place in November 1978 , the the 1978/79 marketing year ; whereas such purchases price payable shall be that for October 1978 . should be carried out under the conditions laid down in Articles 1 and 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No Article 2 2738/75 of 29 October 1975 laying down general rules for intervention on the market in cereals (3) ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of Whereas the conditions laid down in Commission the European Communities. Regulation (EEC) No 1629/77 of 20 July 1977 laying down detailed rules of application for special interven­ It shall apply with effect from 1 August 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 23 June 1978 .

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1 975, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 156, 14. 6 . 1978 , p . 1 . (3 OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 49 . (4 ) OJ No L 181 , 21 . 7 . 1977, p. 26.