CELEX: 31999D0118
Language: en
Date: 1999-01-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 29 January 1999 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (notified under document number C(1999) 265)

9. 2. 1999           EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                L 34/19
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                                         (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                  COMMISSION
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 29 January 1999
                            suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                                     (notified under document number C(1999) 265)
                                                         (1999/118/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and
                                                                   Germany, in a region thereof;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas Commission Decision 1999/72/EC (6) suspends
Community,                                                         the buying-in of butter in all Member States; whereas
                                                                   information on market prices shows that the condition
                                                                   laid down in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87
                                                                   is no longer met in Ireland and Spain; whereas the list of
                                                                   Member States in which that suspension applies must be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of             adjusted accordingly;
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 the first              Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
subparagraph of Article 7a(1) and Article 7a(3) thereof,           accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                   Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last
amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the
buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be
suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen-              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be
taken;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 (4),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1802/95 (5), lays            The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
down the criteria for opening and suspending the                   provided for in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 777/
buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member          87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark, Germany,
                                                                   Greece, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
(1) OJ L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.                                  Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Great Britain and
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 21.                                  Northern Ireland.
(3) OJ L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
(5) OJ L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.                                  (6) OJ L 22, 29. 1. 1999, p. 74.
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                                               Article 2
        Decision 1999/72/EC is hereby repealed.
                                               Article 3
        This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
        Done at Brussels, 29 January 1999.
                                                               For the Commission
                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                             Member of the Commission