CELEX: 31996D0271
Language: en
Date: 1996-04-15 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 15 April 1996 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (Only the Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

23 . 4. 96         EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 100/ 17
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 15 April 1996
                            suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                   (Only the Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and
                                                   Swedish texts are authentic)
                                                           (96/271 /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 sub­        provided for in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
  paragraph of Article 7a ( 1 ) and Article 7a (3) thereof,          777/87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark,
                                                                    Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
                                                                    Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, and the United
  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last           Kingdom.
  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 96/268/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 French Republic,
 down the criteria for opening and suspending the                   the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,
 buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member          the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria,
 States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and                   the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Finland, the
 Germany, in a region thereof;                                      Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great
                                                                    Britain and Northern Ireland.
 Whereas Commission Decision 96/268/EC (fi) suspends
 the buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas          Done at Brussels, 15 April 1996.
 information on market prices shows that the condition
 laid down in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No                                            For the Commission
 1547/87 is no longer met in Italy, whereas the list of                                         Franz FISCHLER
 Member States in which that suspension applies must be
 adjusted accordingly;                                                                    Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 148, 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ No L 307, 20. 12. 1995, p. 10 .
(3) OJ No L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10.
(j OJ No L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
0 OJ No L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
 < OJ No L 92, 13. 4. 1996, p. 36.