CELEX: 31996R2503
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-27 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2503/96 of 27 December 1996 temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences for certain milk products and determining what proportion of the amounts covered by pending applications for export licences may be allocated

No L 338 /76        lEN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                28 . 12. 96
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2503/96
                                                      of 27 December 1996
                  temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences for certain milk products
                  and determining what proportion of the amounts covered by pending
                                     applications for export licences may be allocated
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                                    Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market                1 . The issue of export licences for milk products falling
in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­           within CN code 0406 30 is hereby suspended for the
tion (EC) No 1587/96 (2),                                           period 30 December 1996 to 2 January 1997.
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                      2.     Licences shall be issued for products falling within
1466/95 of 27 June 1995 laying down special detailed                CN code 0406 30 submitted before 20 December 1996
rules of application for export refunds on milk and milk            for which applications are still pending.
products (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1 875/96 (4), and in particular Article 8 (3) thereof,              3 . No licences shall be issued       for products falling
Whereas the market in certain milk products is currently            within CN code 0406 30 for             which applications
subject to uncertainty; whereas licence applications of a           submitted from 20 December 1996       are still pending and
speculative nature should be avoided which may lead to              against which licences would have     been issued from 30
distortions of competition between operators and potenti­            December 1996 .
ally disrupt the continuity of exports of these products for
the remainder of the period in question; whereas the issue
of export licenses for the products involved should be                                        Articlp 2
temporarily suspended and licences for some of these
products should not be issued in respect of applications            This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 December
pending,                                                             1996.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 27 December 1996.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No   L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ  No   L 206, 16.  8. 1996, p. 21 .
(3) OJ  No   L 144, 28.  6. 1995, p. 22.
(«) OJ  No   L 247, 28 . 9. 1996, p. 36.