31991R0561

No L 62/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 3 . 91

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 561 /91 of 7 March 1991 adopting interim protective measures in regard to applications for STM licences for milk and milk products lodged between 25 February and 1 March 1991 in regard to Spain

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, protective measure, in view of the number of requests, for the products concerned, to issue licences up to a percen­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tage of the quantities applied for the milk and to suspend Economic Community, all further issuing of licences for the products in 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 trade mechanism to milk products imported into Spain Article 1 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 25 February and 1 March 1991 for : indicative ceilings for milk sector products for 1991 and splits these up into monthly ceilings ; — milk of a net content not exceeding two litres, falling within CN codes ex 0401 , 0403 and ex 0404, are Whereas applications for STM licences for milk of a net hereby accepted up to a percentage of 16,37% . content not exceeding two litres lodged between 25 February and 1 March 1991 relate to quantities higher 2. The issuing of STM licences is hereby provisionally than the ceiling set for the first quarter ; suspended for the abovementioned products 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 8 March 1991 .

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

Done at Brussels, 7 March 1991 .

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

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