CELEX: 32000R1847
Language: en
Date: 2000-08-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1847/2000 of 30 August 2000 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

L 220/24              EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                    31.8.2000
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1847/2000
                                                           of 30 August 2000
              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,                              export licences for the products concerned should be tempor-
                                                                         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 (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1670/2000 (2),                                                                                       Article 1
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 of               1.     The issuing of export licences for milk products falling
26 January 1999 laying down special detailed rules for the               within CN code 0402 10 is hereby suspended on 1 September
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 as regards             2000, excluding licences for destination ‘970’.
export licences and export refunds in the case of milk and milk          2.     No export licences shall be issued for milk products
products (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1596/1999 (4),            falling within CN code 0402 10 for which applications
and in particular Article 10(3) thereof,                                 submitted from 28 to 30 August 2000 are still pending,
Whereas:                                                                 excluding applications for licences for destination ‘970’.
Uncertainty is a feature of the market in certain milk products.                                     Article 2
It is necessary to prevent speculative applications that may lead
to a distortion in competition between traders. The issuing of           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 30 August 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                      Günter VERHEUGEN
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 10.
(3) OJ L 20, 27.1.1999, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 188, 21.7.1999, p. 39.