CELEX: 31998R0628
Language: en
Date: 1998-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 628/98 of 19 March 1998 temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences for certain milk products and determining what proportion of the amounts covered by pending applications for export licences may be allocated

20. 3. 98              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                L 85/13
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 628/98
                                                     of 19 March 1998
                   temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences for certain milk products
                   and determining what proportion of the amounts covered by pending applica-
                                      tions for export licences may be allocated
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        and licences for some of these products should not be
                                                                   issued in respect of applications pending,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market
in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regula-                                  Article 1
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2),
                                                                   1. The issuing of export licences for products falling
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1466/               within CN codes 0402 21 and 0402 29 is hereby
95 of 27 June 1995 laying down special detailed rules of           suspended for the period 20 to 26 March 1998.
application for export refunds on milk and milk prod-
ucts (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2497/              2. No further action shall be taken in respect of
97 (4), and in particular Article 8(3) thereof,                    applications for licences pending for products falling
                                                                   within CN codes 0402 21 and 0402 29 which would have
Whereas uncertainty is a feature of the market in certain          been issued from 20 March 1998 with the exception of
milk products; whereas it is necessary to prevent specula-         those referred to in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No
tive applications that may lead to a distortion in                 1466/95.
competition between traders, threatening the continuity
of exports of those products for the remainder of the                                      Article 2
current period; whereas the issuing of export licences for
the products concerned should be temporarily suspended,            This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 March 1998.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 19 March 1998.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         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 144, 28.  6. 1995, p. 22.
(4) OJ  L 345, 16.  12. 1997, p. 12.