CELEX: 32000R0571
Language: en
Date: 2000-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 571/2000 of 16 March 2000 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

L 69/8                 EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                     17.3.2000
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 571/2000
                                                          of 16 March 2000
              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,                                    licences for some of these products should not be issued
                                                                               in respect of applications pending.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                              (2)    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
                                                                               accordance with the opinion of the Management
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17                    Committee for Milk and Milk Products,
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1),
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 of
26 January 1999 laying down special detailed rules for the
                                                                                                    Article 1
application of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 as regards export
licences and export refunds in the case of milk and milk                1.    The issuing of export licences for products falling within
products (2), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1596/1999 (3),           CN codes 0402 21 and 0402 29 is hereby suspended from 17
and in particular Article 10(3) thereof,                                March 2000.
Whereas:                                                                2.    No further action shall be taken in respect of applications
                                                                        for licences pending for products falling within CN codes
(1)     Uncertainty is a feature of the market in certain milk          0402 21 and 0402 29 which would have been issued from 17
        products; It is necessary to prevent speculative applica-       March 2000 with the exception of those referred to in Article
        tions that may lead to a distortion in competition              8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999.
        between traders, threatening the continuity of exports of
        those products for the remainder of the current period;                                     Article 2
        The issuing of export licences for the products
        concerned should be temporarily suspended, and                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 March 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 16 March 2000.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                       Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 20, 27.1.1999, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 188, 21.7.1999, p. 39.