CELEX: 32000R1766
Language: en
Date: 2000-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1766/2000 of 10 August 2000 temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences for certain milk products and determining what proportion of the amounts covered by pending applications for export licences may be allocated

11.8.2000             EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                     L 204/25
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1766/2000
                                                           of 10 August 2000
              temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences for certain milk products and determining
              what proportion of the amounts covered by pending applications for export licences may be
                                                                 allocated
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              arily suspended, and licences for some of these products should
                                                                         not be issued in respect of applications pending,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk                                             Article 1
and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1670/2000 (2),                                                           1.     The issuing of export licences for milk products falling
                                                                         within CN code 0402 10 is hereby suspended on 11 August
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 of               2000, excluding licences for destination ‘970’.
26 January 1999 laying down special detailed rules for the               2.     No export licences shall be issued for milk products
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 as regards             falling within CN code 0402 10 for which applications
export licences and export refunds in the case of milk and milk          submitted on 8 and 9 August 2000 are still pending, excluding
products (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1596/1999 (4),            applications for licences for destination ‘970’.
and in particular Article 10(3) thereof,
                                                                         3.     Export licences shall be issued for milk products falling
Whereas:                                                                 within CN code 0402 10 for applications submitted on 4 and
                                                                         7 August 2000.
Uncertainty is a feature of the market in certain milk products.
It is necessary to prevent speculative applications that may lead                                     Article 2
to a distortion in competition between traders. The issuing of
export licences for the products concerned should be tempor-             This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 August 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 10 August 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                      Pedro SOLBES MIRA
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 10.
(3) OJ L 20, 27.1.1999, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 188, 21.7.1999, p. 39.