CELEX: 31996R0893
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-15 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 893/96 of 15 May 1996 temporarily suspending the issue of export licences for certain milk products and laying down the extent to which applications for licences still pending can be met

No L 119/50         EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                               16. 5. 96
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 893/96
                                                       of 15 May 1996
                   temporarily suspending the issue of export licences for certain milk products
                   and laying down the extent to which applications for licences still pending can
                                                            be met
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                   Article 1
  Community,
                                                                   1 . The issue of export licences for milk products falling
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of          within CN code 0406 is hereby suspended for the period
  27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market           from 16 to 31 May 1996.
  in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by
  Commission Regulation (EC) No 2931 /95 (2),                     2. Export licences shall be issued in respect of applica­
                                                                  tions covering products falling within CN code 0406
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                  which were submitted on 10 May and are still pending
  1466/95 of 27 June 1995 laying down special detailed            and against which licences would be issued from 17 May
                                                                  1996.
  rules of application for export refunds on milk and milk
  products (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No             3 . Export licences shall be issued in respect of applica­
  823/96 (% and in particular Article 8 (3) thereof,              tions covering products falling within CN code 0406
                                                                  which were submitted on 13 May and are still pending
 Whereas the market in certain milk products is currently
                                                                  and against which licences would be issued from 20 May
  subject to uncertainty; whereas licence applications of a       1996, except for pending applications covering products
 speculative nature should be avoided which may lead to           falling within CN codes 0406 30, 0406 90 23, 0406 90 78
 distortions of competition between operators and potenti­        and 0406 90 87, against which no licences shall be issued.
 ally disrupt the continuity of exports of these products for
 the remainder of the period in question; whereas the issue       4. No licences shall be issued for products falling
 of export licences for the products involved should be           within CN codes 0406 for which applications submitted
 temporarily suspended and licences should not be issued          on 14 and 15 May 1996 are still pending and against
 for some of these products for which applications are still     which licences would have been issued from 21 May
 pending;                                                         1996.
 Whereas the Management Committee for Milk and Milk                                       Article 2
 Products has not delivered an opinion within the time
 limit set by its Chairman,                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 May 1996.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 15 May 1996.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Franz FISCHLER
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968 , p. 13.
(2) OJ No L 307, 20. 12. 1995, p. 10.
(3) OJ No L 144, 28. 6. 1995, p. 22.
M OJ No L 111 , 4. 5. 1996, p. 9.