CELEX: 31996D0316
Language: en
Date: 1996-04-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 30 April 1996 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (Only the Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

No L 121 /22         EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                               21 . 5. 96
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 30 April 1996
                               suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                    (Only the Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and
                                                    Swedish texts are authentic)
                                                            (96/316/EC)
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
                                                                     accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                     Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
                                                                                             Article 1
   27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market
  in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­         The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
  tion (EC) No 2931 /95 (2), and in particular the first sub­        provided for in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
  paragraph of Article 7a ( 1 ) and Article 7a (3) thereof,          777/87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark,
                                                                    Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last           Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and Great Britain .
  amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
  Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the                                        Article 2
  buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be
  suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­             Decision 96/271 /EC is hereby repealed.
  sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be
  taken;                                                                                    Article 3
                                                                    This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium,
  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 (4),               the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of
  as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 802/95 (*), lays          Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic,
  down the criteria for opening and suspending the                  the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
  buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member         Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Portuguese
  States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and                  Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of
  Germany, in a region thereof;                                     Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
                                                                    Northern Ireland.
 Whereas Commission Decision 96/271 /EC (6) suspends
 the buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas          Done at Brussels, 30 April 1996.
 information on market prices shows that the condition
 laid down in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No                                            For the Commission
  1547/87 is no longer met in Northern Ireland; whereas                                          Franz FISCHLER
 the list of Member States in which that suspension applies
 must be adjusted accordingly,                                                            Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No   L 148, 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 13.
(2)  OJ No   L 307, 20. 12. 1995, p. 1 (
(3)  OJ No   L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.
(♦)  OJ No   L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
(*)  OJ No   L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
 <)  OJ No   L 100, 23. 4. 1996, p. 17.