CELEX: 32000R0322
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 322/2000 of 11 February 2000 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States

12. 2. 2000            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                      L 37/11
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 322/2000
                                                          of 11 February 2000
                                  suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     The list of Member States established by Regulation (EC)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           No 235/2000 adjusted accordingly.
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 organisation of the market in milk                       Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
and milk products (1), and in particular Article 10 thereof,
Whereas:                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(1)     Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999
        of 16 December 1999 laying down detailes rules for the                                       Article 1
        application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as
        regards intervention on the market in butter and                 Buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as provided for in
        cream (2) lays down the criteria for opening or                  Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 is hereby
        suspending the buying-in of butter by invitation to              suspended in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece,
        tender in the Member States.                                     Luxembourg, Austria, the United Kingdom and Sweden.
(2)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 235/2000 of 28
        January 2000 suspending the buying-in of butter in                                           Article 2
        certain Member States (3) establishes the list of Member         Regulation (EC) No 235/2000 is hereby repealed.
        States in which intervention is supended. As a result of
        the market prices communicated by the Member States,                                         Article 3
        intervention must be suspended in the United Kingdom
        and must no longer be suspended in the Netherlands.              This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 February 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 11 February 2000.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 333, 24.12.1999, p. 11.
(3) OJ L 24, 29.1.2000, p. 41.