CELEX: 31999R0549
Language: en
Date: 1999-03-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 549/1999 of 12 March 1999 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States

13. 3. 1999          EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 66/11
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 549/1999
                                                     of 12 March 1999
                            suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        condition laid down in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              No 1547/87 is no longer met in Germany, Italy, Ireland
Community,                                                         and Spain; whereas the list of Member States in which
                                                                   that suspension applies must be adjusted accordingly;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regula-          in accordance with the opinion of the Management
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular the first              Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
subparagraph of Article 7a(1) and Article 7a(3) thereof,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the
                                                                                           Article 1
buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be
suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen-              Buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as provided for
sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be             in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 is hereby
taken;                                                             suspended in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, France, Luxem-
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 (4),                bourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland,
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1802/95 (5), lays            Sweden, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
down the criteria for opening and suspending the
buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member                                  Article 2
States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and
Germany, in a region thereof;                                      Regulation (EC) No 328/1999 is hereby repealed.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 328/1999 (6)                                         Article 3
suspends buying-in of butter in certain Member States;
whereas information on market prices shows that the                This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 March 1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 12 March 1999.
                                                                             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 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 40, 13. 2. 1999, p. 21.