CELEX: 31991R0561
Language: en
Date: 1991-03-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 561/91 of 7 March 1991 adopting interim protective measures in regard to applications for STM licences for milk and milk products lodged between 25 February and 1 March 1991 in regard to Spain

No L 62/28                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   8 . 3 . 91
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 561/91
                                                      of 7 March 1991
                 adopting interim protective measures in regard to applications for STM licences
                 for milk and milk products lodged between 25 February and 1 March 1991 in
                                                      regard to Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      protective measure, in view of the number of requests, for
                                                                 the products concerned, to issue licences up to a percen­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            tage of the quantities applied for the milk and to suspend
Economic Community,
                                                                 all further issuing of licences for the products in question,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal, and in particular Article 85 (1 ) thereof,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 608/86 (')
laying down detailed rules for applying the supplementary
trade mechanism to milk products imported into Spain                                        Article 1
from the Community of Ten and from Portugal, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 334/91 (2), fixes the              1 . Applications for STM licences as referred to in
indicative ceilings for milk sector products for 1991 and        Regulation (EEC) No 25 February and 1 March 1991 for :
splits these up into monthly ceilings ;                          — milk of a net content not exceeding two litres, falling
                                                                      within CN codes ex 0401 , 0403 and ex 0404, are
Whereas applications for STM licences for milk of a net
content not exceeding two litres lodged between 25                    hereby accepted up to a percentage of 16,37% .
February and 1 March 1991 relate to quantities higher            2. The issuing of STM licences is hereby provisionally
than the ceiling set for the first quarter ;                     suspended for the abovementioned products above the
Whereas Article 85 ( 1 ) of the Act of Accession states that      percentage referred to in paragraph 1 .
the Commission may take interim protective measures
necessary by an emergency procedure where the situation                                     Article 2
indicates that the initiative ceiling will be attained or
exceeded ; whereas to this it is necessary, as an interim        This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 March 1991 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 7 March 1991 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 58, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 28 .
(2) OJ No L 39, 13. 2. 1991 , p. 15.