CELEX: 32000R1276
Language: en
Date: 2000-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1276/2000 of 16 June 2000 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States

17.6.2000              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     L 144/21
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1276/2000
                                                            of 16 June 2000
                                  suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     the list of Member States established by Regulation (EC)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           No 1131/2000 adjusted accordingly.
Community,                                                               (3)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17                     accordance with the opinion of the Management
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk                       Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
and milk products (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1040/2000 (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof,
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
(1)     Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999                                          Article 1
        of 16 December 1999 laying down detailed rules for the
        application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as           Buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as provided for in
        regards intervention on the market in butter and                 Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 is hereby
        cream (3) lays down the criteria for opening or                  suspended in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Luxem-
        suspending the buying-in of butter by invitation to              bourg, the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden.
        tender in the Member States.
(2)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 1131/2000 (4)                                                   Article 2
        suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member             Regulation (EC) No 1131/2000 is hereby repealed.
        States establishes the list of Member States in which
        intervention is suspended. As a result of the market                                          Article 3
        prices communicated by the United Kingdom interven-
        tion must no longer be suspended in this country and             This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 June 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 16 June 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L  118, 19.5.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L  333, 24.12.1999, p. 11.
(4) OJ L  127, 27.5.2000, p. 41.