31987R3361

No L 320/6 10 . 11 . 87 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3361 /87 of 9 November 1987 on the suspension of the issue of STM licences for certain floricultural products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, interim protective measures, the issue of STM licences for rose bushes falling within subheading 06.02 D of the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Common Customs Tariff Until 15 November 1987 ; Economic Community, Whereas the target ceiling fixed for 1987 in respect of the Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and abovementioned product has been appreciably exceeded ; Portugal, and in particular Article 252 (3) thereof, whereas the continuation of imports at the rate recorded in past weeks is likely to cause serious disturbance on the Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 643/86 of 28 ' Portuguese market ; whereas a large part of the volumes February 1986 laying down detailed rules for the applica­ imported has not yet been marketed, but whereas stocks tion of the supplementary trade mechanism to the live thereof are already significantly depressing the market plants and floriculture products listed in Annex XXII to and are in competition with local production at a particu­ the Act of Accession and imported into Portugal ('), as last larly sensitive time ; whereas, under the definitive amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3848/86 (2), fixed the measures referred to in Article 252 (3) of the Act of target ceilings provided for in Article 251 ( 1 ) of the Act of Accession, provision should be made for suspending the Accession for certain floriculture products ; whereas issue of STM licences for the product in question until 31 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 901 /87 of 30 March December 1987 ; 1987 on the issue of supplementary trade mechanism Whereas the. measures provided for in this Regulation are (STM) licences for certain floriculture products (3) lays down certain conditions which must be met before STM in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Live Plants and Floricultural Products, licences can be issued in respect of the products concerned ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 252 of the Act of Accession provides that should the examination of developments in intra­ Article 1 Community trade show that a significant increase in imports has taken place or is forecast and if the situation The issue of STM licences for rose bushes falling within should result in the target import ceiling for the product subheading 06.02 D of the Common Customs Tariff being reached or exceeded for. all or part of the current (NIMEXE code 06.02-68) is hereby suspended until 31 marketing year, the Commission is to decide, in accord­ December 1987 . ance with emergency procedures, on the interim protec­ tive measures that are necessary ; Article 2

Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 3178/87 (4), the This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 November Commission suspended, under the abovementioned 1987 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 9 November 1987.

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 60, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 39 . (2) OJ No L 357, 18 . 12. 1986, p. 17. (3) OJ No L 88 , 31 . 3 . 1987, p. 26. (4) OJ No L 301 , 24. 10. 1987, p. 38 .