CELEX: 31999R0981
Language: en
Date: 1999-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 981/1999 of 7 May 1999 suspending the buying_+in of butter in certain Member States

8. 5. 1999           EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 L 120/21
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 981/1999
                                                       of 7 May 1999
                            suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        condition laid down in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 1547/87 is no longer met in Germany, Finland,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   France, Italy, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain, the Neth-
Community,
                                                                   erlands and Portugal; whereas the list of Member States in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of             which that suspension applies must be adjusted accord-
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market              ingly;
in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regula-
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2), and in particular the first
                                                                   in accordance with the opinion of the Management
subparagraph of Article 7a(1) and Article 7a(3) thereof,
                                                                   Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last
amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be
suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen-                                       Article 1
sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be
                                                                   Buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as provided for
taken;
                                                                   in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 is hereby
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 (4),                suspended in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg,
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1802/95 (5), lays            Austria, Sweden and Great Britain.
down the criteria for opening and suspending the
buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member                                   Article 2
States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and
Germany, in a region thereof;                                      Regulation (EC) No 913/1999 is hereby repealed.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 913/1999 (6)                                          Article 3
suspends buying-in of butter in certain Member States;
whereas information on market prices shows that the                This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 May 1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 7 May 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 78, 20.3.1987, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 144, 4.6.1987, p. 12.
(5) OJ L 174, 26.7.1995, p. 27.
(6) OJ L 114, 1.5.1999, p. 37.