" No L 79/52 Official Journal of the European Communities 28. 3. 75 REGULATION (EEC) No 837/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 26 March 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 on detailed rules of appllcatlon for inter- vention on the market in butter and cream THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza- tion of the market in milk and milk products, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 740/75 (%), and in particular Article 6(7) thereof ; ' Whereas under Article 4 (2) of Commission Regula- tion (EEC) No 685/69 (3) of 14 April 1969 on detailed rules of application for intervention on the market in butter and cream, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2517/74(*), Member States may provide that their intervention agencies are to buy in butter produced during a period of two months preceding the day on which such agencies take over the butter; whereas, so as to prevent those holding butter from taking advantage of such situation for speculative purposes, it should be stipulated that this provision is not applicable during the two months following a change in the buying-in price for butter; Whereas Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 lays down, in respect of butter offered for intervention, a standard rate of transport charges for distances exceeding 100 kilometres ; whereas this rate must be adapted to take account of increased transport charges in the Community ; Whereas Articles 6 and 24 of that Regulation specify the various amounts to ‘be allowed in respect of storage charges and the rate of interest for finance costs ; whereas it has proved necessary to alter the amount of these items to take account of changing costs in the Community ; : Whereas Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 provides that where a storage contract is sought, the butter or cream involved must have been produced during the 14 days preceding the date on which such butter or cream is taken into storage ; whereas, in view of experience gained in the matter, that period should be extended ; Whereas Article 29 of Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 provides that if the price at which butter is bought in o L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. o L 74, 22.3. 1975, p. 1. o L 90, 15. 4. 1969, p. 12. o L 269, 4. 10. 1974, p. 24. 2222 by the intervention agencies is altered, the amount of private storage aid for butter and cream is to be altered also ; whereas the Council has on several occa- sions agreed that during a specified period preceding the application of a new intervention price a certain amount should be added to the price at which butter sold to intervention agencies is bought in ; whereas it has become apparent that such additional amount should’ be regarded as constituting a price increase within the meaning of that Article; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage- ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 is amended as follows : 1. The following' subparagraph is added to paragraph- 2: ' ‘However, national provisions adopted pursuant to this paragraph shall not apply during the two months following the date on which a change takes effect in the buying-in price for butter applied by the intervention agency, whether expressed in units of account or in the national currency. ' 2. In paragraph 3, the words ‘Member States may limit ... are replaced by the following: ‘Except during the period specified in the last subparagraph of the preceding p'll"lgr’lph Member States may limit. . \ Article 2 1. In Atticle 6(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 685/69 : (a) the amount ‘11 units of account’ in (a) is replaced by ‘13 units of account’; (b) the amount ‘0-22 unit of account’ in (b) is replaced by ‘0-25 unit of account’; (c) the rate of interest ‘11 %’ in (c) is replaced by “10-5 %"