CELEX: 31996D0574
Language: en
Date: 1996-10-01 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 1 October 1996 suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States (Only the Danish, German, Greek, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

No L 252/22         HENI              Official Journal of the European Communities                            4. 10 . 96
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 1 October 1 996
                               suspending the buying-in of butter in certain Member States
                    (Only the Danish, German, Greek, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish texts
                                                          are authentic)
                                                           (96/574/EC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Community,                                                                               Article 1
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of
  27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market            The buying-in of butter by invitation to tender as
  in milk and milk products ('), as last amended by Regula­        provided for in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
  tion (EC) No 1 587/96 (2), and in particular the first sub­      777/87 is hereby suspended in Belgium, Denmark,
  paragraph of Article 7a ( 1 ) and Article 7a (3) thereof,        Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
                                                                   Austria, Finland and Sweden.
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 (3), as last
 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 suspended and subsequently resumed and, where suspen­             Decision 96/342/EG is hereby repealed.
 sion takes place, the alternative measures that may be
 taken;                                                                                   Article 3
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1547/87 (4),
 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 802/95 (^ lays            This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium,
 down the criteria for opening and suspending the                  the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of
 buying-in of butter by invitation to tender in the Member         Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic,
 States or, in the case of the United Kingdom and                  the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
 Germany, in a region thereof;                                     Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Portuguese
                                                                   Republic, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of
 Whereas Commission Decision 96/342/EC (®) suspends                Sweden .
 the buying-in of butter in certain Member States; whereas
 information on market prices shows that the condition
 laid down in Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1547/87 is no longer met in Portugal whereas the list of          Done at Brussels, 1 October 1996 .
 Member States in which that suspension applies must be
 adjusted accordingly;                                                                      For the Commission
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in                                      Franz FISCHLER
 accordance with the opinion of the Management
 Committee for Milk and Milk Products,                                                  Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No  L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968, p. 13.
(2)  OJ No  L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 21 .
 3   OJ No  L 78 , 20 . 3. 1987, p. 10 .
(4)  OJ No  L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 12.
(J)  OJ No  L 174, 26. 7. 1995, p. 27.
 6   OJ No  L 130, 31 . 5. 1996, p. 22.