CELEX: 31996D0268
Language: en
Date: 1996-04-02 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 2 April 1996 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (Only the Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

No L 92/36        (""en I             Official Journal of the European Communities                                13 . 4. 96
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                                          (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                  COMMISSION
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 2 April 1996
                            suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                  (Only the Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and
                                                  Swedish texts are authentic)
                                                           (96/268/EC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        certain Member States; whereas information on market
                                                                    prices shows that the condition laid down in Article 1 (3)
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              of Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 is no longer met in
 Community,                                                         Ireland; whereas the list of Member States in which that
                                                                   suspension applies must be adjusted accordingly;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market             Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
 in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­         accordance with the opinion of the Management
 tion (EC) No 2931 /95 (2), and in particular the first sub­       Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
 paragraph of Article 7a ( 1 ) and Article 7a (3) thereof,
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last
 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                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­
 sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be
 taken;
                                                                                             Article 1
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 (4),
 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 802/95          lays
 down the criteria for opening and suspending the                  The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
 buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member         provided for in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and                  777/87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark,
 Germany, in a region thereof;                                     Germany, Greece, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Nether­
                                                                   lands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Great Britain
Whereas     Commission       Decision   96/248/EC    of    24      and Northern Ireland .
 November 1 995 16) suspends the buying-in of butter in
(') OJ  No L  148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ  No L 307, 20. 12. 1995, p. 10.                                                      Article 2
(3) OJ  No L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.
(«) OJ  No L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
C)  OJ  No L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
(«) OJ  No L 83, 2. 4. 1996, p. 18 .                               Decision 96/248/EC is hereby repealed.
 ---pagebreak--- 13 . 4. 96      EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                     No L 92/37
                                                   Article 3
           This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the
           Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic, Ireland, the
           Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the
           Republic of Austria, the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of
           Sweden and the United Kingdom.
           Done at Brussels, 2 April 1996.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission