31991R0074

No L 9 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 12 . 1 . 91

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 74/91 of 11 January 1991 adopting interim protective measures in regard to applications (or STM licences for milk and milk products lodged between 1 and 4 January 1991

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, tage of the quantities applied for categories 5 and 6 and to suspend all further issuing of licences for the products in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European question, Economic Community,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Portugal, and in particular Article 85 (1 ) thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 608/86 (') Article 1 laying down detailed rules for applying the supplementary trade mechanism to milk products imported into Spain 1 . Applications for STM licences as referred to in from the Community of Ten and from Portugal, as last Regulation (EEC) No 606/86 lodged between 1 and 4 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3881 /90 (2), fixes the January 1991 and notified to the Commission for milk indicative ceilings for milk sector products for 1991 and products falling within : splits these up into monthly ceilings ; — category 5 of CN code ex 406 are hereby accepted up Whereas applications for STM licences for cheese of cate­ to a percentage of 73,26 % ; gories 5 and 6 lodged between 1 and 4 January 1991 — cagegory 6 of CN code ex 0406 are hereby accepted relate to quantities higher than the ceiling set for the first up to a percentage of 61,41 % . quarter ; 2. The issuing of STM licences is hereby provisionally Whereas Article 85 (1 ) of the Act of Accession states that suspended for products falling with categories 5 and 6 the Commission may take interim protective measures above the percentage referred to in paragraph 1 . necessary by an emergency procedure where the situation indicates that the initiative ceiling will be attained or Article 2 exceeded ; whereas to this it is necessary, as an interim protective measure, in view of the number of requests, for This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 January 1991 . the products concerned, to issue licences up to a percen­

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

Done at Brussels, 11 January 1991 .

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

0 OJ No L 58, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 28 . (2) OJ No L 367, 29. 12. 1990, p. 124.