CELEX: 31999D0072
Language: en
Date: 1999-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22 January 1999 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (notified under document number C(1999) 162)

L 22/74              EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              29. 1. 1999
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 22 January 1999
                            suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                                     (notified under document number C(1999) 162)
                                                         (1999/72/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
                                                                   accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular the first                                      Article 1
subparagraph of Article 7a(1) and Article 7a(3) thereof,
                                                                   The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last            provided for in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 777/
amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and            87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark, Germany,
Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the                 Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Nether-
buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be                 lands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and Great
suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen-              Britain and Northern Ireland.
sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be
taken;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 (4),
                                                                   Decision 97/785/EC is hereby repealed.
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1802/95 (5), lays
down the criteria for opening and suspending the
buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member                                  Article 3
States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and
                                                                   This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Germany, in a region thereof;
Whereas Commission Decision 97/785/EC (6) suspends
the buying-in of butter in all Member States; whereas              Done at Brussels, 22 January 1999.
information on market prices shows that the condition
laid down in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87                                     For the Commission
is no longer met in Ireland; whereas the list of Member
                                                                                           Hans VAN DEN BROEK
States in which that suspension applies must be adjusted
accordingly;                                                                             Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 21.
(3) OJ L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
(5) OJ L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
(6) OJ L 321, 22. 11. 1997, p. 43.