31991R0414

22. 2 . 91 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 49 / 13

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 414/91 of 21 February 1991 adopting interim protective measures in regard to applications for STM licences for milk and milk products lodged between 11 and 15 February 1991

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, the products concerned, to issue licences up to a percen­ tage of the quantities applied for category 2 and to Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European suspend all further issuing of licences for the products in Economic Community, question, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular Article 85 ( 1 ) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 608/86 (') laying down detailed rules for applying the supplementary Article 1 trade mechanism to milk products imported into Spain from the Community of Ten and from Portugal, as last 1 . Applications for STM licences as referred to in amended by Regulation (EEC) No 334/91 (2), fixes the Regulation (EEC) No 606/86 lodged between 11 and 15 indicative ceilings for milk sector products for 1991 and February products falling within : splits these up into monthly ceilings ; — category 2 of CN code ex 0406 are hereby accepted Whereas applications for STM licences for cheese of cate­ up to a percentage of 37,98 % . gory 2 lodged between 1 1 and 1 5 February 1 99 1 relate to 2. The issuing of STM licences is hereby provisionally quantities higher than the ceiling set for the first quarter ; suspended for products falling with category 2 above the Whereas Article 85 (1 ) of the Act of Accession states that percentage referred to in paragraph 1 . the Commission may take interim protective measures necessary by an emergency procedure where the situation Article 2 indicates that the initiative ceiling will be attained or exceeded ; whereas to this it is necessary, as an interim This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 February protective measure, in view of the number of requests, for 1991 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 February 1991 .

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 58 , 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 28 . 0 OJ No L 39, 13. 2. 1991 , p. 15.