CELEX: 32000R1679
Language: en
Date: 2000-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1679/2000 of 28 July 2000 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1609/88 as regards the latest date by which butter must have been taken into storage in order to be sold pursuant to Regulations (EEC) No 3143/85 and (EC) No 2571/97

L 193/30               EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                      29.7.2000
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1679/2000
                                                            of 28 July 2000
               amending Regulation (EEC) No 1609/88 as regards the latest date by which butter must have been
               taken into storage in order to be sold pursuant to Regulations (EEC) No 3143/85 and (EC) No
                                                                  2571/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     to the butter referred to in Regulation (EC) No 2571/97,
                                                                                should be amended.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                               (3)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17                     accordance with the opinion of the Management
May 1999 on the common organization of the market in milk                       Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
and milk products (1), as last amended by Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 1526/2000 (2), and in particular Article 10,
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
(1)     Pursuant to Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                                        Article 1
        2571/97 of 15 December 1997 on the sale of butter at             In Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1609/88, the second
        reduced prices and the grant of aid for cream, butter and        subparagraph is hereby replaced by the following:
        concentrated butter for use in the manufacture of pastry
        products, ice-cream and other foodstuffs (3), as last                ‘The butter referred to in Article 1(1)(a) of Regulation (EC)
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 635/2000 (4), the butter               No 2571/97 must have been taken into storage before 1
        put up for sale must have been taken into storage before             July 2000.’
        a date to be determined.
                                                                                                      Article 2
(2)     In view of the trends on the butter market and the
        quantities of stocks available, the date in Article 1 of         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
        Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1609/88 (5), as last              following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 1551/2000 (6), relating            Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 28 July 2000.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                     Pedro SOLBES MIRA
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L  175, 14.7.2000, p. 55.
(3) OJ L  350, 20.12.1997, p. 3.
(4) OJ L  76, 25.3.2000, p. 9.
(5) OJ L  143, 10.6.1988, p. 23.
(6) OJ L  176, 15.7.2000, p. 26.