No L 359/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 31. 12. 80 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3446/80 of 22 December 1980 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 on the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the - European Economic Community, Having regard to the 1979 Act of Accession, and in particular Article 146 thereof, Whereas the Hellenic Republic-is to become the 10th Member State of the European Communities on 1 January 1981; whereas it is accordingly necessary to adapt Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 (*); whereas, in particular, it seems necessary in view of the special characteristics of the sheepmeat and goatmeat market in that Member State to consider it as a region and to fix a reference price taking into account the market price forecast for 1980, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 3 (1) shall be replaced by the follovﬁng: ‘1. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty, for the marketing year commencing the year following, a basic price for fresh or chilled sheep carcases and a reference price for each of the following regions shall be fixed annually: — region 1: Iraly, — region 2: France, — region 3: Denmark, Benelux, Germany, — region 4: Ireland, — region 5: United Kingdom, — region 6: Greece. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, for the 1980/81 marketing year, the basic price and the reference prices shall be fixed at the levels indicated in Article 31. 2. Article 31 (4) shall be replaced by the following: ‘4. The reference prices are hereby fixed in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 3 (1), at: — 375 ECU per 100 kilograms for region 1, — 345 ECU per 100 kilograms for region 2, — 315 ECU per 100 kilograms for region 3, — 310 ECU per 100 kilograms for region 4, — 293 ECU per 100 kilograms for region 5, — 345 ECU per 100 kilograms for region 6. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1981. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 22 December 1980. (") ©J No L 183, 16. 7. 1980, p. 1. For the Council The President J. SANTER