European Communities (Common Agricultural Policy) (Market Intervention) Regulations, 1973

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1973
• Citation: IR SI 24/1973

S.I. No. 24 of 1973.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY) (MARKET INTERVENTION) REGULATIONS, 1973.
I, JAMES GIBBONS, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers conferred on my by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), hereby make the following regulations:
	1 Citation and Commencement.	1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Common Agricultural Policy) (Market Intervention) Regulations, 1973, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of February, 1973.
	2 Interpretation.	2. In these Regulations—
"agricultural products" means the products listed in Annex II to the EEC Treaty and any other product of agricultural origin;
"authorised officer" means a person appointed by the Minister to be an authorised officer for the purposes of these Regulations;
"the Community" means the European Economic Community;
"the Minister" means the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries;
"process" includes denature and cognate words shall be construed accordingly.
	3 Marke intervention operations by Minister.	3. Where arrangements made by the Community for the purposes of its common agricultural policy require the buying, selling, storing, importation, exportation, grading, processing, disposal or withdrawal from the market of agricultural products, by a person in the State, the Minister may, upon and subject in each case to such terms and conditions as he considers appropriate, carry out those operations and such other operations as he considers necessary or expedient for the purposes of those arrangements or may cause them to be carried out on his behalf upon and subject in each case to such terms and conditions as he considers appropriate.
	4 Support and assistance by Minister of certain market intervention operations by other persons.	4. (1) Where arrangements made by the Community for the purposes of its common agricultural policy require the storing, grading, processing, disposal or withdrawal from the market of any agricultural products or the payment of subsidies in relation to any such products, by a person in the State, the Minister may—
( a ) support or assist, directly or indirectly, the storing, processing, grading, disposal or withdrawal from the market by any person of those products, or
( b ) pay subsidies in relation to those products, upon and subject in each case to such terms and conditions as he considers appropriate.
(2) The powers conferred on the Minister by this Regulation include power—
( a ) to pay premiums for the denaturing of agricultural products,
( b ) to pay subsidies in relation to the production of starch,
( c ) to make payments to producers' organisations in respect of portion of any losses incurred by them as result of the withdrawal of agricultural products from the market in pursuance of the arrangements aforesaid.
	5 Advisory committee on market intervention.	5. (1) The Minister may establish a committee to advise him, whenever requested by the Minister to do so, in relation to the matters referred to in Regulations 3 and 4 or such of them or such matters connected with them as he may specify, and the committee shall comply with the request.
(2) A committee established under this Regulation shall consist of such number of members appointed by the Minister as he thinks proper and the members shall include persons who in the opinion of the Minister have or are representative of persons who have special knowledge of matters with which the committee is concerned.
(3) The appointment of a person to act as a member of a committee established under this Regulation shall be subject to such conditions (including conditions in relation to the term and tenure of office of the member) as the Minister may think proper to impose when making the appointment.
(4) A member of a committee established under...