Commission Regulation (EC) No 751/1999 of 9 April 1999 adjusting the total quantities set in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 establishing an additional levy in the milk and milk products sector
Date: 1999-04-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural levy, milk, milk product, quantitative restriction, regulation of agricultural production

10. 4. 1999

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 96/11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 751/1999

of 9 April 1999

adjusting the total quantities set in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
3950/92 establishing an additional levy in the milk and milk products sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92
of 28 December 1992 establishing an additional levy in
the milk and milk products sector (1), as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 903/98 (2), and in par-
ticular Articles 3(2) and 4(2) thereof,

Whereas Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92
provides that the guaranteed total quantities for Austria
and Finland may be increased up to a maximum of
180 000 tonnes and 200 000 tonnes respectively in order
to compensate Austrian and Finnish ‘SLOM' producers;
whereas pursuant to Article 6 of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 671/95 (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1390/95 (4), Austria and Finland have notified the quant-
ities concerned for the 1998/99 marketing year; whereas
the guaranteed total quantities
should therefore be
increased accordingly through the procedure laid down in
Article 30 of Council Regulation (EEC) 804/68 (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1587/96 (6);

Whereas Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92
provides that individual reference quantities are to be
increased or established at the duly justified request of
producers to take account of changes in their deliveries
and/or direct sales; whereas an increase in or establish-
ment of a reference quantity must be offset by a cor-
responding reduction or deletion of the other reference
quantity held by the producer;

involve for

such adjustments may not

Whereas
the
Member State concerned an increase in the sum of the
delivery and direct sale quantities indicated in Article 3 of
Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92; whereas in the event of
definitive changes to individual reference quantities the
quantities set in the said Article 3 are to be adjusted
accordingly through the procedure laid down in Article
30 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68;

Whereas pursuant to Article 8, third indent, of Commis-
sion Regulation (EEC) No 536/93 (7), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1255/98 (8), Belgium, Denmark,

(1) OJ L 405, 31.12.1992, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 127, 29.4.1998, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 70, 30.3.1995, p. 2.
(4) OJ L 135, 21.6.1995, p. 4.
(5) OJ L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 13.
(6) OJ L 206, 16.8.1996, p. 21.
(7) OJ L 57, 10.3.1993, p. 12.
(8) OJ L 173, 18.6.1998, p. 14.

Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Austria
and the United Kingdom have notified the Commission
of quantities definitively modified as mentioned in the
second subparagraph of Article 4(2) of Regulation (EEC)
No 3950/92; whereas
these
Member States set in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No
3950/92 should therefore be adjusted accordingly;

the total quantities

for

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 table in the first subparagraph of Article 3(2) of
Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 is
replaced by the
following table:

‘Member State

Deliveries

Direct
sales

Belgium

Denmark

Germany (1)

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

3 140 696

169 735

4 454 640

708

27 767 036

97 780

629 817

5 457 564

23 793 932

5 236 575

696

109 386

441 866

9 189

9 698 399

231 661

268 098

951

10 991 900

82 792

2 393 979

355 422

1 835 461

2 394 528

3 300 000

37 000

10 000

3 000

United Kingdom

14 373 969

216 078

(1) Of which 6 242 180 tonnes for deliveries by producers in the new

L(cid:132)nder and 11 187 tonnes for direct sales in the new L(cid:132)nder.'

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Article 2

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

It shall apply with effect from 1 April 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 April 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission