CELEX: 31997D0366
Language: en
Date: 1997-06-04 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 4 June 1997 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (Only the Danish, German, Greek, French, English, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

No L 154/50      lENl                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              12. 6. 97
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 4 June 1997
                             suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                   (Only the Danish, German, Greek, French, English, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish texts are
                                                              authentic)
                                                            (97/366/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 1 587/96 (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 Northern Ireland.
  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last
  amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
  Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the                                         Article 2
  buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be
  suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­               Decision 97/243/EC is hereby repealed.
  sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be
  taken;
                                                                                             Article 3
  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/87 (4),
  as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 802/95 (% lays             This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium,
  down the criteria for opening and suspending the                   the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of
  buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member          Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic,
  States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and                   the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
  Germany, in a region thereof;                                      Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of
                                                                     Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United
 Whereas Commission Decision 97/243/EC (*) suspends                  Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
 the buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas
 information on market prices shows that the condition
 laid down in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
  1547/87 is no longer met in Great Britain; whereas the             Done at Brussels, 4 June 1997.
 list of Member States in which that suspension 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 .
(J) OJ No L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.
(j OJ No L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
0 OJ No L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
(6) OJ No L 96, 11 . 4. 1997, p. 37.