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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2947/85

of 23 October 1985

waiving the date in Regulation (EEC) No 1244/82 for submitting applications for premiums for maintaining suckler cows for 1985/86

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1357/80 of 5 June 1980 introducing a system of premiums for maintaining suckler cows (1), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1198/82 (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1244/82 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1709/83 (4), fixed the time limit for submitting applications for the premium for maintaining suckler cows at 30 September; whereas, in certain Member States, this time limit has been found to be inadequate and it should therefore be extended;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Beef and Veal,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Notwithstanding Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1244/82, for the 1985/86 marketing year the date '30 September' given in the said paragraph is hereby replaced by '30 November'.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply with effect from 1 October 1985.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 October 1985.

For the Commission

Frans ANDRIESSEN

Vice-President

(1) OJ No L 140, 5. 6. 1980, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 143, 20. 5. 1982, p. 28.

(3) OJ No L 143, 20. 5. 1982, p. 20.

(4) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1983, p. 16.