CELEX: 31997R0136
Language: en
Date: 1997-01-24 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 136/97 of 24 January 1997 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

25. 1 . 97         \ ~EN~]               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 24/ 15
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 136/97
                                                       of 24 January 1997
                 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,                        products should not be issued in respect of applications
                                                                   pending,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market
in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­                                    Article 1
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                     1.     The issue of export licences for milk products falling
1466/95 of 27 June 1995 laying down special detailed               within CN code 0406 30 is hereby suspended for the
rules of application for export refunds on milk and milk           period 27 January 1997 to 31 January 1997.
products (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                2. No licences shall be issued for products falling
1875/96 (4), and in particular Article 8 (3) thereof,
                                                                   within CN code 0406 30 for which applications
Whereas the market in certain milk products is currently           submitted from 20 January 1997 are still pending and
subject to uncertainty; whereas licence applications of a          against which licences would have been issued from 27
speculative nature should be avoided which may lead to             January 1997.
distortions of competition between operators and potenti­
ally disrupt the continuity of exports of these products for                                 Article 2
the remainder of the period in question; whereas the issue
of export licenses for the products involved should be             This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 January
temporarily suspended and licences for some of these                1997 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 24 January 1997.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No  L 148,  28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
 (2) OJ No  L 206,  16. 8. 1996, p. 21 .
 (3) OJ No  L 144, 28 . 6. 1995, p. 22.
  4  OJ No  L 247, 28 . 9. 1996, p. 36.