CELEX: 31996D0248
Language: en
Date: 1996-03-26 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 26 March 1996 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States

No L 83 / 18        EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               2. 4. 96
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 26 March 1996
                             suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                                                           (96/248/EC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
                                                                    accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                    Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Community,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of                                   Article 1
  27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market
  in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­        The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
 tion (EC) No 2931 /95 (2), and in particular the first subpa­     provided for in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 ragraph of Article 7a (1 ) and Article 7a (3) thereof,            777/87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark,
                                                                   Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the
                                                                   Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Great
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last           Britain and Northern Ireland.
 amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and
 Sweden, sets out the circumstances under which the                                       Article 2
 buying-in of butter and skimmed-milk powder may be
 suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­             Decision 95/500/EC is hereby repealed.
 sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be
 taken;                                                                                   Article 3
                                                                   This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium,
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/87 (4),              the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of
 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 802/95 (^ lays            Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain,
 down the criteria for opening and suspending the                  the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the
 buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member         Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
 States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and                  Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Portuguese
 Germany, in a region thereof;                                     Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of
                                                                   Sweden and the United Kingdom .
 Whereas     Commission      Decision    95/500/ EC    of  24
 November 1995 (^ suspends the buying-in of butter in all          Done at Brussels, 26 March 1996.
 Member States; whereas information on market prices
 shows that the condition laid down in Article 1 (3) of                                     For the Commission
 Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 is no longer met in Spain;                                        Franz FISCHLER
 whereas the list of Member States in which that suspen­
 sion applies must be adjusted accordingly;                                             Member of the Commission
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