CELEX: 31987R0730
Language: en
Date: 1987-03-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 730/87 of 13 March 1987 on the suspension of the issue of STM licences for certain floricultural products

14. 3 . 87                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 71 / 17
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 730/87
                                                       of 13 March 1987
                  on the suspension of the issue of STM licences for certain floricultural products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       interim protective measures, the issue of STM licences for
                                                                  ornamental plants falling within subheading 06.02 D of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             the Common Customs Tariff until 15 March 1987 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas the target ceiling fixed for the first half of 1987
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                in respect of the abovementioned product has been
Portugal, and in particular Article 252 (3) thereof,              appreciably exceeded ; whereas the continuation of
                                                                  imports at the rate recorded in past weeks is likely to
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 643/86 of 28               cause serious disturbance on the Portuguese market ;
February 1986 laying down detailed rules for the applica­         whereas a large part of the volumes imported has not yet
tion of the supplementary trade mechanism to the live             been marketed, but whereas stocks thereof are already
plants and floriculture products listed in Annex XXII to          significantly depressing the market and are in competi­
the Act of Accession and imported into Portugal ('), as last      tion with local production at a particularly sensitive time ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3848/86 (2), fixed the             whereas, under the definitive measures referred to in
target ceilings provided for in Article 251 (1 ) of the Act of    Article 252 (3) of the Act of Accession, provision should
Accession for certain floriculture products ; whereas             be made for suspending the issue of STM licences for the
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 570/87 on the issue of             product in question until 30 June 1987 ;
supplementary trade mechanism (STM) licences for                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
certain floriculture products (3) lays down certain condi­        in accordance with the opinion of the Management
tions which must be met before STM licences can be
                                                                  Committee for Live Plants,
issued in respect of the products concerned ;
Whereas Article 252 of the Act of Accession provides that         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
should the examination of developments in intra­
Community trade show that a significant increase in                                        Article 1
imports has taken place or is forecast and if the situation
should result in the target import ceiling for the product        The issue of STM licences for ornamental plants falling
being reached or exceeded for all or part of the current          within subheading 06.02 D of Common Customs Tariff
marketing year, the Commission is to decide, in accor­            (NIMEXE code 06.02-96 and 06.02-99) ia hereby
dance with emergeny procedures, on the interim protec­            suspended until 30 June 1987.
tive measures that are necessary ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 640/87 (4), the
Commission suspended, under the abovementioned                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1987.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 13 March 1987.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                Vice-President
 (») OJ No L 60, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 39.
 (2) OJ No L 357, 18 . 12. 1986, p. 17.
 (3) OJ No L 57, 27. 2. 1987, p. 27.
 h) OJ No L 61 , 4. 3. 1987, p. 18.