CELEX: 31988R1197
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1197/88 of 29 April 1988 on the suspension of the issue of STM licences for certain floricultural products

30 . 4. 88
                                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 111 /97
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1197/88
                                                           of 29 April 1988
                        on the suspension of the issue of STM licences for certain floricultural products
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas the target ceiling fixed for the first half of 1988
     Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              in respect of the; abovementioned product has been
     Economic Community,                                                appreciably exceeded ; whereas the continuation of
                                                                        imports at the rate recorded in past weeks is likely to
    Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  cause serious disturbance on the Portuguese market ;
    Portugal, and in particular Article 252 (3) thereof,                whereas a large part of the volumes imported has not yet
    Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 643/86 of 28                 been marketed, but whereas stocks thereof are already
    February 1986 laying down detailed rules for the                   significantly depressing the       market and are in
    application , of the supplementary trade mechanism to the          competition with local production at a particularly
    live plants and floriculture products listed in Annex XXII         sensitive time ; whereas, under the definitive measures
   to the Act of Accession and imported into Portugal ('), as          referred to in Article 252 (3) of the Act of Accession,
   last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3925/87Q, fixed                 provision should be made for suspending ^the issue of
   the target ceilings provided for in Article 251 (1) of the          STM licences for the product in question until 30 Tune
                                                                       1988 ;
   said Act for certain floriculture products for the period 1
   January to 3i December 1988 ;                                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
   Whereas Article 252 of the Act of Accession provides that           in accordance with the opinion of the Management
   should the examination of developments in intra                     Committee for Live Plants,
   Community trade show that a significant increase in
   imports has taken place or is forecast and if the situation
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   should result in the target import ceiling for the product
   being reached for all or part of the current marketing
  year, the Commission is to decide, in accordance with                                         Article 1
  emergency procedures, on the interim protective
  measures that are necessary ;                                       The issue of STM licences for ornamental plants (CN
                                                                      codes 0602 99 91 and 0602 99 99) is hereby suspended
  Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 926/88 (3), the                     until 30 June 1988 .
  Commission suspended, under the abovementioned
  interim protective measures, the issue of STM licences for
                                                                                                Article 2
  ornamental plants (CN codes 0602 99 91 and 0602 99 99)
  until 30 April 1988 ;
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1988.
                      This  Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                      States.
                      Done at Brussels, 29 April 1988.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
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(3) OJ No L 91 , 8 . 4. 1988, p. 10.