CELEX: 31997D0243
Language: en
Date: 1997-04-01 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 1 April 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)

11 . 4. 97          | EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 96/37
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 1 April 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)
                                                             (97/243/EC)
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
    Community,                                                                                 Article 1
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
   27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market               The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
   in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­           provided for in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
   tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular the first sub­          777/87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark,
   paragraph of Article 7a ( 1 ) and Article 7a (3) thereof,           Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
                                                                       Austria, Finland, Sweden and Great Britain and Northern
   Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 f), as last              Ireland .
   amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
   Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the
   buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be                                          Article 2
   suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­
   sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be              Decision 97/ 166/EC is hereby repealed.
   taken;
  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
  Whereas Commission Decision 97/ 166/EC (6) suspends                 Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of
  the buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas           Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United
  information on market prices shows that the condition               Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  laid down in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
  1547/87 is currently met in Belgium, Denmark, Germany,
 Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria,
  Finland, Sweden, Great Britain and Northern Ireland;                Done at Brussels, 1 April 1997.
 whereas the list of Member States in which that suspen­
 sion applies must be adjusted accordingly;
                                                                                                For the Commission
 Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in                                         Franz FISCHLER
 accordance with the opinion of the Management
 Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                                                       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.
j-5) OJ No L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
(") OJ No L 64, 5. 3. 1997, p. 22.