CELEX: 32000R1946
Language: en
Date: 2000-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1946/2000 of 14 September 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 233/8                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    15.9.2000
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1946/2000
                                                         of 14 September 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,                                     between traders. The issuing of export licences for the
                                                                                products concerned should be temporarily suspended,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           and licences for some of these products should not be
Community,                                                                      issued in respect of applications pending.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17              (2)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk                       accordance with the opinion of the Management
and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                    Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
1670/2000 (2),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 of
26 January 1999 laying down special detailed rules for the               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 as regards
export licences and export refunds in the case of milk and milk                                      Article 1
products (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1596/1999 (4),            The issuing of export licences for milk products falling within
and in particular Article 10(3) thereof,                                 CN code 0402 10 is hereby suspended for the period from 15
Whereas:                                                                 to 30 September 2000, excluding licences for destination ‘970’.
(1)     Uncertainty is a feature of the market in certain milk                                       Article 2
        products. It is necessary to prevent speculative applica-
        tions that may lead to a distortion in competition               This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 September 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 14 September 2000.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                       Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  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.