CELEX: 31987R3863
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3863/87 of 21 December 1987 suspending the issuing of STM licences for seed potatoes

No L 363/34                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              23 . 12. 87
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3863/87
                                                  of 21 December 1987
                             suspending the issuing of STM licences for seed potatoes
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     the definitive measures provided for in Article 85 (3) of
                                                                the Act of Accession, the suspension of STM licences
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           should accordingly be maintained for the products in
Economic Community,                                             question until 31 January 1988 ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and              Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23
Portugal, and in particular Article 85 (3) thereof,             July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and
                                                                on the Common Customs Tariff (3) introduces from 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1754/87 of               January 1988 a new combined nomenclature meeting the
24 June 1987 fixing the indicative ceiling for imports           requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of
into Spain of certain seed potatoes for 1987/88 and amen­        statistics of external trade of the Community and repla­
ding Regulation (EEC) No 650/86 (') fixes in particular          cing the present nomenclature ; whereas as a consequence
the indicative ceiling for the marketing year from 1             the code numbers of the combined nomenclature should
October 1987 to 30 September 1988 ;                              be indicated ; whereas the Common Customs Tariff conti­
Whereas Article 85 of the Act of Accession stipulates that,      nues to apply until 31 December 1987 ; whereas, in view
should the trend of intra-Community trade show that a            of the period of application of the Regulation, the
                                                                 nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff and the
significant increase in imports has occurred or is likely to     combined nomenclature should be indicated ;
occur leading to the indicative ceiling for imports of the.
product in question for the marketing year in progress          Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
being reached or exceeded, suitable measures may be              in accordance with the Management Committee for Seed,
decided ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3299/87 (2) adopts interim           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
measures of protection relating to the suspension of STM
licences for seed potatoes falling within subheading 0701                                   Article 1
10 00 of the combined nomenclature for applications
submitted from 30 October 1987 ; whereas pursuant to            The issuing of STM licences for seed potatoes in the certi­
that Regulation licences for the same product applied for        fied category falling within subheading 07.01 A of the
and notified to the Commission in the period 27 October          Common Customs Tariff and subheading 0701 10 00 of
to 29 October 1987 were issued in respect of 36,49 % of          the combined nomenclature is hereby suspended until 31
the quantity applied for ;                                       January 1988 .
Whereas the indicative ceiling fixed for the 1987/88                                        Article 2
marketing year has been reached ; whereas the continua­
tion of imports is liable to disturb the Spanish market in       This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
view of the foreseeable quantity of imports and of the           publication in the Official Journal of the European
prices recorded on the Spanish market ; whereas, under           Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 21 December 1987.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                Vice-President
(') OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1987, p. 12.
(2) OJ No L 309, 31 . 10. 1987, p. 105.                          (3) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .