CELEX: 31987R3361
Language: en
Date: 1987-11-10
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3361/87 of 9 November 1987 on the suspension of the issue of STM licences for certain floricultural products

No L 320/6                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               10 . 11 . 87
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3361 /87
                                                       of 9 November 1987
                   on the suspension of the issue of STM licences for certain floricultural products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         interim protective measures, the issue of STM licences for
                                                                    rose bushes falling within subheading 06.02 D of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Common Customs Tariff Until 15 November 1987 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas the target ceiling fixed for 1987 in respect of the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  abovementioned product has been appreciably exceeded ;
Portugal, and in particular Article 252 (3) thereof,                whereas the continuation of imports at the rate recorded
                                                                    in past weeks is likely to cause serious disturbance on the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 643/86 of 28               ' Portuguese market ; whereas a large part of the volumes
February 1986 laying down detailed rules for the applica­           imported has not yet been marketed, but whereas stocks
tion of the supplementary trade mechanism to the live               thereof are already significantly depressing the market
plants and floriculture products listed in Annex XXII to            and are in competition with local production at a particu­
the Act of Accession and imported into Portugal ('), as last         larly sensitive time ; whereas, under the definitive
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3848/86 (2), fixed the                measures referred to in Article 252 (3) of the Act of
target ceilings provided for in Article 251 ( 1 ) of the Act of     Accession, provision should be made for suspending the
Accession for certain floriculture products ; whereas                issue of STM licences for the product in question until 31
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 901 /87 of 30 March                   December 1987 ;
1987 on the issue of supplementary trade mechanism
(STM) licences for certain floriculture products (3) lays           Whereas the. measures provided for in this Regulation are
down certain conditions which must be met before STM                 in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                     Committee for Live Plants and Floricultural Products,
licences can be issued in respect of the products
concerned ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 252 of the Act of Accession provides that
should the examination of developments in intra­                                              Article 1
Community trade show that a significant increase in
imports has taken place or is forecast and if the situation          The issue of STM licences for rose bushes falling within
should result in the target import ceiling for the product           subheading 06.02 D of the Common Customs Tariff
being reached or exceeded for. all or part of the current            (NIMEXE code 06.02-68) is hereby suspended until 31
marketing year, the Commission is to decide, in accord­              December 1987.
ance with emergency procedures, on the interim protec­
tive measures that are necessary ;                                                            Article 2
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 3178/87 (4), the                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 November
Commission suspended, under the abovementioned                       1987 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                   Done at Brussels, 9 November 1987.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
(') OJ No   L 60, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 39.
(2) OJ No   L 357, 18 . 12. 1986, p. 17.
(3) OJ No   L 88, 31 . 3. 1987, p. 26.
(4) OJ No   L 301 , 24. 10. 1987, p. 38 .