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31 . 3 . 79 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 82/5

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 642/79 of 29 March 1979 fixing the flat-rate production aid and the guide price for certain dried fodder products for the period 1 April to 30 June 1979

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN price for those dried fodder products for which the COMMUNITIES, marketing year expires on 31 March 1979, for the period 1 April to 30 June 1979, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 of 22 May 1978 on the common organization Article 1 of the market in dried fodder (*), and in particular Arti­ cles 3 (3), 4 ( 1 ) and (3), and 5 (2) thereof, For the period 1 April to 30 June 1979, the flat-rate production aid provided for in Article 3 of Regulation Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, (EEC) No 1117/78 shall be five units of account per tonne for the products referred to in Article 1 (b) and Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ (c) of the said Regulation. ment (2),

Article 2 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 stipulates that the level of the fixed production aid for dried fodder must be such as to bring about an 1 . For the period 1 April to 30 June 1979, the improvement in the Community's protein supplies ; guide price for the products referred to in the first indent of Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 shall be 103 units of account per tonne. Whereas, under Article 4 of the same Regulation, a guide price must be set for certain dried fodder 2. This price refers to a product with : products at a level that is fair to producers ; whereas this price must be set for a standard quality representa­ — a moisture content of 11 % , tive of the average quality of dried fodder produced in the Community ; — a total gross protein content of 18 % of the dry weight.

Whereas, under Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78, the supplementary aid provided for in para­ Article 3 graph 1 of that Article must be equal to a percentage of the difference between the guide price and the average world market price for the products in ques­ For the period 1 April to 30 June 1979, the percent­ tion ; whereas in view of the characteristics of the ages to be used to calculate the supplementary aid market in question the percentage should be set at referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 70 % for the products referred to in Article 1 (b), first 1117/78 shall be : indent, and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 and at 40 % for the products referred to in the second — 70 % for the products referred to in Article 1 (b), indent of Article 1 (b) of that Regulation ; first indent, and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78, Whereas it has proved necessary to reconsider all the — 40 % for the products referred to in the second problems relating to the fixing of prices for the indent of paragraph (b) of that Article. 1979/80 marketing year, which will involve delay in the fixing of these prices ; whereas it is therefore necessary to fix the production aid and the guide Article 4

(») OJ No L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1 . (2) Opinion delivered on 15 March 1979 (not yet published This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April in the Official Journal). 1979 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 March 1979 . For the Council

The President

P. MEHAIGNERIE