CELEX: 31997R0720
Language: en
Date: 1997-04-23 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 720/97 of 23 April 1997 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

24. 4. 97             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 106/ 19
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 720/97
                                                        of 23 April 1997
                  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,                       be temporarily suspended and licences for some of these
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             products should not be issued in respect of applications
 Community,                                                        pending,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EC) No 1 587/96 (2),                                                                Article 1
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No
 1466/95 of 27 June 1995 laying down special detailed              1 . The issue of export licences for milk products falling
 rules of application for export refunds on milk and milk          within CN code 0406 is hereby suspended for the period
 products (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No               24 April 1997 to 30 April 1997.
417/97 (4), and in particular Article 8 (3) thereof,
                                                                   2. No licences shall be issued for products falling
Whereas the market in certain milk products is currently           within CN code 0406 for which applications submitted
subject to uncertainty; whereas licence applications of a          from 17 April 1997 are still pending and against which
speculative nature should be avoided which may lead to             licences would have been issued from 24 April 1997.
distortions of competition between operators and poten­
tially disrupt the continuity of exports of these products                                 Article 2
for the remainder of the period in question; whereas the
issue of export licenses for the products involved should          This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 April 1997.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 23 April 1997.
                                                                            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 .
0 OJ No L 144, 28 . 6. 1995, p. 22.
 « OJ No L 64, 5. 3. 1997, p. 1 .