31978R2185

21 . 9 . 78 No L 258 /5 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 2185/78 of 19 September 1978 extending the period of validity of Regulation (EEC) No 2862/77 on levies appli­ cable to imports of certain adult bovine animals and beef from Yugoslavia

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, In the second paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , (EEC) No 2862/77 '31 August 1978 ' shall read '31 December 1978 '. Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ ment ( J ), Article 2 Whereas the system applicable to imports of certain bovine animals and beef from Yugoslavia was laid This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its down in Regulation (EEC) No 2862/77 (2) ; whereas publication in the Official Journal of the European this system applied until 31 August 1978 ; Communities. Whereas the reasons which obtained on the introduc­ tion of these arrangements continue to apply ; whereas It shall apply with effect from 1 September 1978 . pursuant to Article IX of the Trade Agreement between the European Economic Community and the However, the levy fixed pursuant to this Regulation Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (3) will be for the period from 1 September 1978 until the date extended by tacit consent ; whereas the said system of entry into force of this Regulation shall only apply should therefore continue to apply, at the request of an interested party.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 September 1978 .

For the Council

The President

H.-D . GENSCHER

(*) Opinion delivered on 15 September 1978 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (2) OJ No L 330, 23 . 12. 1977, p. 9 . (3) OJ No L 224, 13 . 9 . 1973 , p. 2.