CELEX: 31997D0166
Language: en
Date: 1997-02-20 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 20 February 1997 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (Only the Danish, German, Greek, French, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish and English texts are authentic)

No L 64/22        ( ENI               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 5 . 3 . 97
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 20 February 1997
                            suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                  (Only the Danish , German , Greek, French, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish and English texts are
                                                            authentic)
                                                          (97/ 166/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            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market
 in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­                                 Article 1
 tion (EC) No 1 587/96 (2), and in particular the first sub­
 paragraph of Article 7a ( 1 ) and Article 7a (3) thereof,          The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
                                                                    provided for in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last            777/87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Germany,
 amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and            Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria,
 Sweden , sets out the circumstances under which the                Finland, Sweden and Northern Ireland and Great Britain .
 buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be
 suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­                                     Article 2
 sion takes place , the alternative measures that may be
 taken ;                                                            Decision 97/ 113/EC is hereby repealed.
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/87 (4),                                      Article 3
 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 802/95 (5), lays
 down the criteria for opening and suspending the                  This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium,
 buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member         the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of
 States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and                  Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic,
 Germany, in a region thereof;                                     the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
                                                                   Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of
 Whereas Commission Decision 97/ 113/ EC (6) suspends              Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United
 the buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas         Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
 information on market prices shows that the condition
 laid down in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1547/87 is currently met in Belgium, Germany, Greece,             Done at Brussels, 20 February 1997.
 France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland,
 Sweden, Northern Ireland and Great Britain but is no                                        For the Commission
 longer met in Denmark; whereas the list of Member                                             Franz FISCHLER
 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 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 21 .
0 OJ No L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.
(4) OJ No L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
(5) OJ No L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
(«) OJ No L 40, 11 . 2. 1997, p. 22.