COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 418/97 of 4 March 1997 amending Regulation (EEC) No 210/69 on communications between Member States and the Commission with regard to milk and milk products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular Article 28 thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 210/69 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1171/96 (4), lays down what information on the management of the market in milk and milk products must be regularly notified to the Commission;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 417/97 (5) amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 1466/95 (6) provides for specific arrangements for granting refunds on ingredients of Community origin in processed cheese manufactured under the inward-processing arrangements; whereas provision should be made for the transmission of information on this subject; whereas this information should be transmitted by the IDES system; whereas, in order to distinguish the applications under these arrangements, the computer code for communication by IDES should be specified;

Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and Milk Products has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 210/69 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 6 (1) (a) is replaced by the following:

'(a) - the quantities, split up by code of the export refund nomenclature for milk products and by destination code, for which:

(i) licences as referred to in Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1466/95 (*), with the exception of those referred to in Article 1c of that Regulation, have been applied for on that day

(IDES computer communication code: 1);

(ii) licences as referred to in Article 1c of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1466/95 have been applied for on that day

(IDES computer communication code: 9);

- where appropriate, the fact that none has been applied for;

(*) OJ No L 144, 28. 6. 1995, p. 22.`.

2. The following is added after Article 6 (2) (f):

'(g) the quantities of milk products, split up by combined nomenclature code and by code of country of origin which are not in one of the situations referred to in Article 9 (2) of the Treaty and are imported for use in the manufacture of products falling within CN code 0406 30, in accordance with the third indent of Article 8 (3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 (*) and for which the authorization referred to in Article 1c (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1466/95 has been granted;

(*) OJ No L 351, 14. 12. 1987, p. 1.`

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 March 1997.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.

(2) OJ No L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 21.

(3) OJ No L 28, 5. 2. 1969, p. 1.

(4) OJ No L 155, 27. 6. 1996, p. 15.

(5) See page 1 of this Official Journal.

(6) OJ No L 144, 28. 6. 1995, p. 22.