CELEX: 31991R2956
Language: en
Date: 1991-10-09
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2956/91 of 8 October 1991 amending Regulation (EEC) No 598/86 as regards the indicative ceiling for imports into Spain of common wheat of breadmaking quality for the 1991/92 marketing year

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                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2956/91
                                                           of 8 October 1991
                    amending Regulation (EEC) No 598/86 as regards the indicative ceiling for
                    imports into Spain of common wheat of breadmaking quality for the 1991/92
                                                             marketing year
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Whereas, with a view to ensuring that the greatest number
                                                                       of operators are provided with minimum supplies to
                                                                       satisfy their requirements, the maximum quantity in
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                respect of which each operator may submit tenders by
 Economic Community,                                                   period of application should be limited ;
                                                                       Whereas the fixing of an indicative ceiling by marketing
  Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   year makes it unsuitable to limit the term of validity of
 Portugal, and in particular Article 85 (3) thereof,                   licences to 31 December ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 569/86 of                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 25 February 1986 laying down general rules for the appli­             in accordance with the opinion of the Management
 cation of the supplementary mechanism applicable to                   Committee for Cereals,
 trade ('), as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC)
 No 3296/88 (2), and in particular Article 7 (1 ) thereof,
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 598/86 of 28
 February 1986 on the application of the supplementary
 trade mechanism to imports into Spain of common wheat
 of breadmaking quality from the Community as consti­                                             Article 1
 tuted at 31 December 1985 (3), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 2012/91 (4), fixes the indicative ceiling for
 imports of common wheat of breadmaking quality into                   Regulation (EEC) No 598/86 is hereby amended as
                                                                       follows :
 Spain for 1991 ;
                                                                       1 . In the third indent of Article 2 (1 ), ' 10 000 tonnes' is
 Whereas, in accordance with Article 6 (2) of Commission                    replaced by '3 000 tonnes'.
 Regulation (EEC) No 574/86 of 28 February 1986 laying                 2. The last sentence of Article 3 (1 ) is deleted.
 down detailed rules for the application of the supplemen­
 tary trade mechanism (STM) (*), as last amended by Regu­              3. Article 4 is replaced by the following :
 lation (EEC) No 3296/88, the Commission was notified
 by 15 July 1991 of applications for STM licences for                        'Article 4
 imports into Spain of common wheat of breadmaking
 quality covering quantities far exceeding the abovemen­                    The indicative ceiling for imports of common wheat of
tioned indicative ceiling ; whereas special measures were                   breadmaking quality shall be 650 000 tonnes for the
adopted in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2116/91 of                      ' 1991 /92 marketing year.'
 18 July 1991 concerning applications for STM licences
for cereals submitted on 15 July 1991 for imports of
common wheat into Spain (6) ;
                                                                                                  Article 2
Whereas,     in view on the one hand of production figures             Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2116/91 is hereby
for 1991     and foreseeable consumption of breadmaking                deleted.
common       wheat in Spain and on the other hand of the
desirable    rate of growth of trade, the indicative ceiling
provided for in Article 83 of the Act of Accession should
                                                                                                  Article J
be fixed at 650 000 tonnes for a period covering the
 1991 /92 marketing year ;
                                                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
(•) OJ   No  L  55, 1 . 3.  1986, p. 106.                              following its publication in the Official Journal of the
(2) OJ   No  L  293, 27.   10. 1988, p. 7.                             European Communities.
O   OJ   No  L  58, 1 . 3.  1986, p. 16.
(<) OJ   No  L  185, 11 .  7. 1991 , p. 6.
0   OJ   No   L 57, 1 . 3.  1986, p. 1 .                               It shall apply to licence applications submitted from its
 6) OJ   No   L 196, 19.   7. 1991 , p. 11 .                           date of entry into force.
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 8 October 1991 .
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                      Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                 Member of the Commission