CELEX: 31996R1091
Language: en
Date: 1996-06-17 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1091/96 of 17 June 1996 temporarily permitting the United Kingdom to authorize the use of set-aside land for grazing bovine animals of more than 30 months

18 . 6. 96          EN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 144/9
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1091/96
                                                            of 17 June 1996
                     temporarily permitting the United Kingdom to authorize the use of set-aside
                                 land for grazing bovine animals of more than 30 months
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          number of animals will have to be kept and fed on farms;
                                                                       whereas this situation has increased the demand for
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               pasture; whereas the use of land set aside under the arran­
   Community,
                                                                       gements for arable crops could alleviate that situation;
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92                Whereas the Joint Management Committee for Cereals,
   of 30 June 1992 establishing a support system for produ­            Oils and Fat and Dried Fodder has not delivered an
   cers of certain arable crops ('), as last amended by Regula­        opinion within the time limit set by its chairman,
   tion (EC) No 2989/95 (2), and in particular Article 12
  thereof,
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Whereas Article 7 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92
  permits the use of set-aside land for the production of
                                                                                               Article 1
  products not intended for human or animal consumption;
  Whereas Commission Decision 96/239/EC of 27 March                    The United Kingdom is hereby authorized to permit the
  1996 on emergency measures to protect against bovine                 grazing of bovine animals of more than 30 months on
  spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) (3) prohibits the export             land set aside pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
  of live bovine animals, or any part of them, from the                No 1765/92 until 31 August 1996.
  United Kingdom to other Member States or to third
  countries in view of the existence of BSE in the United                                      Article 2
  Kingdom; whereas the United Kingdom has prohibited
  the introduction of bovine animals of more than 30                  The United Kingdom authorities shall take all necessary
  months at the time of slaughter into the human food and             steps to ensure that:
  animal feed chains; whereas those measures are causing              — only the bovine animals referred to in Article 1 are
  serious disturbances on the United Kingdom market;                      grazed on the set-aside land, and
 whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96 of 19                   — the set-aside land is not made available as pasture to
 April 1996 adopting exceptional support measures for the                 the farmers concerned for pecuniary gain .
 beef market in the United Kingdom (4), as last amended
 by Regulation (EC) No 835/96 (*), authorizes a system of                                      Article 3
 purchase of all bovine animals aged more than 30 months
 with a view to their destruction; whereas access to that             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 system is limited by the slaughter and destruction capa­             following its publication in the Official Journal of the
 city; whereas, therefore, initially an exceptionally high            European Communities.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 17 June 1996.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  Franz FISCHLER
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 12.
(2) OJ No L 312, 23. 12. 1995, p. 5.
(3) OJ No L 78, 28. 3. 1996, p. 47.
H OJ No L 99, 20. 4. 1996, p. 14.
0 OJ No L 112, 7. 5. 1996, p. 17.