Commission Regulation (EC) No 419/98 of 20 February 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 454/95 laying down detailed rules for intervention on the market in butter and cream and Regulation (EC) No 322/96 laying down detailed rules of application for the public storage of skimmed-milk powder
Date: 1998-02-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: butter, cream, market intervention, public stock, skimmed milk powder

L 52/20

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Official Journal of the European Communities

21. 2. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 419/98

of 20 February 1998

amending Regulation (EC) No 454/95 laying down detailed rules for intervention
on the market in butter and cream and Regulation (EC) No 322/96 laying down
detailed rules of application for the public storage of skimmed-milk powder

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 organisation of the market
in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular Articles 6(6)
and 7(5) thereof,

Whereas Article 5(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
last amended by Regulation (EC) No
454/95 (3), as
418/97 (4), lays down the storage costs to be reimbursed by
the seller where the butter offered for intervention does
not meet the requirements laid down in Article 2 of that
Regulation; whereas, in order to ensure that there is a link
between those amounts and the amounts to be reim-
bursed by the intervention agency to the European Agri-
cultural Guidance
and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF),
reference should be made to the amounts provided for in
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3597/90 of 12
December 1990 on the accounting rules for intervention
measures involving the buying-in, storage and sale of agri-
cultural products by intervention agencies (5), as
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1392/97 (6);

Whereas Article 4(6) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
322/96 (7), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No
94/97 (8), refers to Article 7(2) of Regulation (EEC) No
3597/90 as regards the storage and financing costs to be
reimbursed by the seller where the powder offered does

not meet
the requirements laid down in Article 1(1);
whereas the reference to the financing cost, which is not
relevant in this context, should be deleted;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The second subparagraph of Article 5(3) of Regulation
(EEC) No 454/95 and the second subparagraph of Article
4(6) of Regulation (EC) No 322/96 are hereby replaced by
the following:

‘The storage costs to be paid shall be the costs to be
reimbursed by the intervention agency to the account
of the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural
in ac-
Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF)
cordance with Article 7(2)(a) and (b) of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 3597/90.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 20 February 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 21.
(3) OJ L 46, 1. 3. 1995, p. 1.
(4) See page 19 of this Official Journal.
(5) OJ L 350, 14. 12. 1990, p. 43.
(6) OJ L 190, 19. 7. 1997, p. 22.
(7) OJ L 45, 23. 2. 1996, p. 5.
(8) OJ L 19, 22. 1. 1997, p. 8.