CELEX: 31996D0342
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-21 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 21 May 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 130/22       ( enI              Official Journal of the European Communities                               31 . 5. 96
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 21 May 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)
                                                           (96/342/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
  27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market                                     Article 1
  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 and Sweden.
  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  suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­             Decision 96/316/EC is hereby repealed.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 1 547/87 (4),              the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of
 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 802/95 (s), 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 96/3l6/EC (6) suspends
 the buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas         Done at Brussels, 21 May 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 Great Britain; whereas the                                         Franz FISCHLER
 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. 10,
0    OJ No L  78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.
(4)  OJ No L  144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
0    OJ No L  174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
M OJ No L 121 , 21 . 5. 1996, p. 22.