CELEX: 31999R0328
Language: en
Date: 1999-02-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 328/1999 of 12 February 1999 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States

13. 2. 1999          EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 40/21
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 328/1999
                                                    of 12 February 1999
                            suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        is no longer met in Ireland and Spain; whereas the list of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Member States in which that suspension applies must be
Community,                                                         adjusted accordingly;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regula-          Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular the first
subparagraph of Article 7a(1) and Article 7a(3) thereof,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last
amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
                                                                                           Article 1
Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the
buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be                 Buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as provided for
suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen-              in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 is hereby
sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be             suspended in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece,
taken;                                                             France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 (4),                Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Great Britain and Northern
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1802/95 (5), lays            Ireland.
down the criteria for opening and suspending the
buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member                                  Article 2
States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and
Germany, in a region thereof;                                      Decision 1999/118/EC is hereby repealed.
Whereas Commission Decision 1999/118/EC (6) suspends                                       Article 3
buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas
information on market prices shows that the condition              This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 February
laid down in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87           1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 12 February 1999.
                                                                             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 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 34, 9. 2. 1999, p. 19.