Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1381/80Show full title

Article 1 U.K.

Regulation (EEC) No 1822/77 is amended as follows:

1.

Article 2 shall read as follows:

‘Article 2

1. During the 1980/81 milk year the amount of the levy per 100 kilograms of cow's milk shall be:

(a) as regards the general rate specified in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77: 0.4452 ECU;

(b) as regards the reduced rate given by applying Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77: 0.3339 ECU.

2. The reduced rate referred to in paragraph 1 (b) shall be levied on quantities of milk delivered, as from the beginning of the milk year concerned, by producers whose holdings are located in one of the regions specified in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77, up to a limit of 60 000 kilograms. The general rate specified in paragraph 1 (a) shall apply to quantities in excess of that quantity delivered by producers during the remainder of the milk year in question.

3. Where the producer is paid for milk on the basis of deliveries expressed in litres, conversion into kilograms shall be effected by applying the coefficient 1·03.

4. Purchasers of milk shall state separately, on the payment account for each producer, the amount deducted by way of a co-responsibility levy, distinguishing, in the case of the holdings specified in paragraph 2, between the amount deducted at the reduced rate of the levy and, after the annual quantity limit has been exceeded, the amount deducted at the general rate of the levy.’

2.

In the first subparagraph of Article 3 (2), ‘farms situated in one of the regions referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77’ is replaced by ‘farms situated in one of the regions specified in Article 1 (2) and/or (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77’.

3.

The following subparagraph is added to Article 3 (3):

‘Where the purchaser has, during the period concerned, purchased milk originating from farms situated in a region referred to in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77, the statement referred to in the first subparagraph under (a) shall indicate separately the quantity of milk delivered by such farms and to which the reduced rate of the levy referred to in Article 2 (1) (b) has been applied.’

4.

Article 3 (4) is amended to read as follows:

‘4. However, as regards purchasers concerned by the provisions of the second subparagraph of paragraph 3, Member States may allow a period of three months or 12 weeks as from 1 June 1980 to be considered as a single period within the meaning of the first subparagraph of paragraph 3.’

5.

Article 5 (2) is amended to read as follows:

‘2 During the 1980/81 milk year, the amount of the levy per 100 kilograms of skimmed milk or buttermilk, eligible for the aid referred to in paragraph 1, shall be:

(a) as regards the general rate specified in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77: 0.4897 ECU;

(b) as regards the reduced rate given by the application of Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1079/77: 0.3673 ECU.

Article 2 (2) shall apply by analogy to the exacting of the reduced rate referred to under (b).’