Article 1 
The entries in Annex B to Directive 70/524/EEC for the following antibiotics shall be deleted: - bacitracin zinc, - spiramycin, - virginiamycin, - tylosin phosphate. Article 2 The Commission shall reexamine the provisions of this Regulation before 31 December 2000 on the basis of the results given by - the different investigations concerning the induction of resistances by the use of the antibiotics concerned, - the surveillance programme of microbial resistance in animals which have received antibiotics, to be carried out in particular by the persons responsible for putting the additives concerned into circulation. Article 3 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 January 1999. However, where, on the date on which this Regulation enters into force, a Member State has not banned, in accordance with Community law, one or more of the antibiotics referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation, such antibiotic or antibiotics shall remain authorised in that Member State until 30 June 1999. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 17 December 1998. For the Council The President W. MOLTERER (1) OJ L 270, 14. 12. 1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 98/19/EC (OJ L 96, 28. 3. 1998, p. 39). (2) Commission Directive 97/6/EC of 30 January 1997 amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs (OJ L 35, 5. 2. 1997, p. 11). (3) Commission Directive 97/72/EC of 15 December 1997 amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs (OJ L 351, 23. 12. 1997, p. 55).
Article 2 
The Commission shall reexamine the provisions of this Regulation before 31 December 2000 on the basis of the results given by - the different investigations concerning the induction of resistances by the use of the antibiotics concerned, - the surveillance programme of microbial resistance in animals which have received antibiotics, to be carried out in particular by the persons responsible for putting the additives concerned into circulation. Article 3 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 January 1999. However, where, on the date on which this Regulation enters into force, a Member State has not banned, in accordance with Community law, one or more of the antibiotics referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation, such antibiotic or antibiotics shall remain authorised in that Member State until 30 June 1999. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 17 December 1998. For the Council The President W. MOLTERER (1) OJ L 270, 14. 12. 1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 98/19/EC (OJ L 96, 28. 3. 1998, p. 39). (2) Commission Directive 97/6/EC of 30 January 1997 amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs (OJ L 35, 5. 2. 1997, p. 11). (3) Commission Directive 97/72/EC of 15 December 1997 amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs (OJ L 351, 23. 12. 1997, p. 55).
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 January 1999. However, where, on the date on which this Regulation enters into force, a Member State has not banned, in accordance with Community law, one or more of the antibiotics referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation, such antibiotic or antibiotics shall remain authorised in that Member State until 30 June 1999. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 17 December 1998. For the Council The President W. MOLTERER (1) OJ L 270, 14. 12. 1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 98/19/EC (OJ L 96, 28. 3. 1998, p. 39). (2) Commission Directive 97/6/EC of 30 January 1997 amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs (OJ L 35, 5. 2. 1997, p. 11). (3) Commission Directive 97/72/EC of 15 December 1997 amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feedingstuffs (OJ L 351, 23. 12. 1997, p. 55).