CELEX: 31999R2635
Language: en
Date: 1999-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2635/1999 of 14 December 1999 temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences for certain milk products and determining what proportion of the amounts covered by pending applications for export licences may be allocated

15. 12. 1999          EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                        L 323/3
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2635/1999
                                                        of 14 December 1999
              temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences for certain milk products and determining
              what proportion of the amounts covered by pending applications for export licences may be
                                                                allocated
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             arily suspended, and licences for some of these products should
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   not be issued in respect of applications pending,
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
June 1968 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
                                                                                                    Article 1
1587/96 (2),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 of              1.     The issuing of export licences for products falling within
26 January 1999 laying down special detailed rules for the              CN codes 0402 10, 0402 21 and 0402 29 is hereby suspended
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 as regards            from 15 December 1999.
export licences and export refunds in the case of milk and milk         2.     No further action shall be taken in respect of applications
products (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1596/1999 (4),           for licences pending for products falling within CN codes
and in particular Article 10(3) thereof,                                0402 10, 0402 21 and 0402 29 which would have been issued
Whereas uncertainty is a feature of the market in certain milk          from 15 December 1999 with the exception of those referred
products; whereas it is necessary to prevent speculative applica-       to in Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999.
tions that may lead to a distortion in competition between
traders, threatening the continuity of exports of those products                                    Article 2
for the remainder of the current period; whereas the issuing of
export licences for the products concerned should be tempor-            This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 December 1999.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 14 December 1999.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                       Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 206, 16.8.1996, p. 21.
(3) OJ L 20, 27.1.1999, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 188, 21.7.1999, p. 39.