1.11.75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 282/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) REGULATION (EEC) No 2759/75 OF THE COUNCIL of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in pigmeat THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and 43 thereof; Having regard to the proposal from the Commission; Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament (1); Whereas since their adoption the basic provisions concerning the organization of the market in pigmeat have been amended a number of times; whereas, by reason of their number, their complexity and their dispersal among various Official Journals, the relevant texts are difficult to use and thus fack the clarity which should be an essential feature of all legislation; whereas they should therefore be consolidated in a single text; Whercas the operation and development of the common market in agricultural products must be accompanied by the establishment of 2 common agricultural policy to include in particular a common organization of agricultural markets, which may take various forms depending on the product; Whereas the aim of the common agricultural policy is to attain the objectives set out in Article 39 of the Treaty; whereas, in the pigmeat sector, in order to stabilize markets and to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community concerned, provision should be made for measures to facilitate the adjustment of supply to market requirements and for intervention measures; whereas the latter may take the form of buying in by intervention agencies; whereas, however, aid should also be provided for private storage since such aid least disturbs the normal marketing of products and can help to reduce (1) OJ No C 60, 13. 3. 1975, p. 42. the volume of buying in by intervention agencies; whereas to this end provision should be made in particular for the fixing of a basic price at which intervention measures may come into operation, and the conditions governing intervention should be specified; Whereas the creation of a single Community market for pigmeat involves the introduction of a single trading system at the external frontiers of. the Community; whereas a trading system including levies and export refunds, combined with intervention measures, also serves to stabilize the Community market, in particular by preventing price fluctuations on the world market from affecting prices ruling within the Community; Whereas to achieve this aim it should as a general rule be sufficient .5 introduce, in respect of imports from third countrnes, levies which take account of the incidence on feeding costs of the difference between prices for feed grain within the Community and on the world market, and of the need to protect the Community processing industry; Whereas it is necessary to avoid disturbances on the Community market caused by offers made on the world market at abnormally low prices; whereas to this end sluice-gate prices should be fixed and levies should be increased by an additional amount when frec-at-frontier offer prices are lower than those prices; whereas the system of sluice-gate prices will not operate, however, where it is difficult to determine a sufficiently representative offer price for all the products falling within one Tariff heading; whereas provision should be made for a method of calculating the additional amount in such cases; Whereas, in ofder that a check may be kept on the volume of imports, provision should be made for a system of import licences involving the provision of security as a guarantee that importation will be effected;