CELEX: 31997D0410
Language: en
Date: 1997-06-19 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 19 June 1997 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (Only the Danish, German, Greek, French, English, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

2. 7. 97            I EN 1             Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 174/51
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                         of 19 June 1997
                               suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                    (Only the Danish, German, Greek, French, English, Dutch , Finnish and Swedish texts are
                                                              authentic)
                                                            (97/41 0/EC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Community,                                                                                  Article 1
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
  27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market               The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
  in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­           provided for in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 tion (EC) No 1 587/96 (2), and in particular the first sub­          777/87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark,
  paragraph of Article 7a ( 1 ) and Article 7a (3) thereof,           Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the
                                                                      Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Great-Britain and
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last              Northern Ireland .
 amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
 Sweden , sets out the circumstances under which the
 buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be                                           Article 2
 suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­
sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be                Decision 97/366/EC is hereby repealed.
 taken ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/87 (4),                                          Article 3
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 802/95 (5), lays
down the criteria for opening and suspending the
buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member
                                                                     This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium,
                                                                     the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of
States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and
Germany, in a region thereof;
                                                                     Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic,
                                                                     Ireland, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom
Whereas Commission Decision 97/366/EC (6) suspends                   of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic
the buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas            of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United
information on market prices shows that the condition                Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
laid down in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
1547/87 is currently met in Belgium, Demark, Germany,
Greece, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Austria, Finland, Sweden , Great Britain and Northern                Done at Brussels, 19 June 1997.
Ireland; whereas the list of Member States in which that
suspension applies must be adjusted accordingly;
                                                                                                For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in                                         Franz FISCHLER
accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                                                       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 78 , 20 . 3. 1987, p. 10 .
4)  OJ   No L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
5)  OJ   No L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
6   OJ   No L 154, 12. 6. 1997, p. 50 .