CELEX: 32000R2778
Language: en
Date: 2000-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2778/2000 of 18 December 2000 adopting further exceptional support measures for the beef market in Germany

L 321/52               EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                        19.12.2000
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2778/2000
                                                         of 18 December 2000
                        adopting further exceptional support measures for the beef market in Germany
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              (2)     It is appropriate to provide for a period of application
                                                                                 equal to the one fixed for Regulation (EC) No 2777/
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            2000.
Community,
                                                                         (3)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Having regard to the Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999                        accordance with the opinion of the Management
of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in                       Committee for Beef and Veal,
beef and veal (1), and in particular Article 38(2),
Whereas:                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(1)     In order to improve the market situation for beef in a                                        Article 1
        specific Member State, Article 3(3) of Commission Regu-
        lation (EC) No 2777/2000 of 18 December 2000                     The purchase scheme provided for in Regulation (EC) No
        adopting exceptional support measures for the beef               2777/2000 shall also apply to animals in Germany which after
        market (2) provides for the possibility to extend the            slaughter have been tested negatively by a test referred to in
        purchase for destruction scheme to cover equally                 Article 2 of the said Regulation.
        animals having been negatively tested. As the market
        situation in Germany is particularly difficult and as the                                     Article 2
        German authorities have informed the Commission that             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
        they have decided that all animals above 30 months in            of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communi-
        Germany should be subject of testing for BSE at                  ties.
        slaughter, it should be provided that such animals shall
        be fully eligible under the scheme laid down in the said         It shall be applicable from 1 January 2001 until 30 June 2001
        Regulation.                                                      at the latest.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 18 December 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) See page 47 of this Official Journal.