CELEX: 32001R0112
Language: en
Date: 2001-01-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 112/2001 of 19 January 2001 adopting further exceptional support measures for the beef market in Luxembourg

L 19/12                EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                     20.1.2001
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 112/2001
                                                            of 19 January 2001
                     adopting further exceptional support measures for the beef market in Luxembourg
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               (2)     It is appropriate to provide for a period of application
                                                                                  equal to the one fixed for Regulation (EC) No 2777/
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             2000.
Community,
                                                                          (3)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17                       accordance with the opinion of the Management
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef                         Committee for Beef and Veal,
and veal (1), and in particular Article 38(2),
Whereas:                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(1)     In order to improve the market situation for beef, Article                                     Article 1
        3(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2777/2000 of
        18 December 2000 adopting exceptional support meas-               The purchase scheme provided for in Regulation (EC) No
        ures for the beef market (2) provides for the possibility to      2777/2000 shall also apply to animals in Luxembourg which
        extend the purchase for destruction scheme to cover               after slaughter have been tested negatively by a test referred to
        equally animals having been negatively tested for BSE.            in Article 2 of the said Regulation.
        As the market situation in Luxembourg is expected to
        remain difficult and as the Luxembourg authorities have                                        Article 2
        informed the Commission that they have decided that all           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
        animals above 30 months in Luxembourg should be                   following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
        subject to testing for BSE at slaughter, it should be             European Communities.
        provided that such animals shall be fully eligible under
        the scheme laid down in the said Regulation.                      It shall be applicable until 30 June 2001 at the latest.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 19 January 2001.
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 321, 19.12.2000, p. 47.