No L 160/12 Official Journal of the European Communities 17.6.78 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1300/78 of 6 June 1978 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1703/72 laying down ‘inter alia’ rules for the Community financing of expenditure arising from the implementation of the 1971 Food-Aid Convention THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CONMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia- ment (1), ) Whereas Article 3 (1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiz- ation of the market in cereals (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1125/78 (3), provides for the fix- ing of a single intervention price for certain cereals, including common wheat, and of a reference price for common wheat of bread-making quality; Whereas, with effect from the 1977/78 marketing year, wheat of bread-making quality may, under special in- tervention measures, be bought in to intervention at the reference price; Whereas common wheat of bread-making quality may, therefore, be supplied as food aid; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1703/72 of 3 August 1972 laying down inter alia rules for the Community financing of expenditure arising from the implementation of the 1971 Food-Aid Convention (%), refers only to the intervention price, in particular in L Article 7 thereof concerning the price at which goods are handed over in implementation of the aforesaid Convention; Whereas, since certain food-aid measures may take the form of common wheat or common wheat of bread- making quality, the goods should be supplied at the appropriate price, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Paragraph 1 of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1703/72 is replaced by the following text: ‘The price at which the intervention agency hands over goods in implementation of the 1971 Food-Aid Convention shall be, as appropriate, the single in- tervention price or the reference price for the month in which the goods are removed from intervention.’ Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply with effect from 1 August 1977. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Luxembourg, 6 June 1978. For the Council The President K. B. ANDERSEN (1) OJ No C 108, 8. 5. 1978, p. 56. (2) OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. (3) OJ No L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 21. (4 O] No L 180, 8. 8. 1972, p. 1.