31991R1421

No L 135/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 5. 91

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1421/91 of 29 May 1991 adopting interim protective measures in regard to applications for STM licences for milk and milk products lodged between 20 and 24 May 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 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 334/91 (2), fixes the 1 . Applications in the Community of Ten and Portugal indicative ceilings for milk sector products for 1991 and for STM licences as referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 606/86 from 20 and 24 May 1991 for : splits these up into monthly ceilings ; Whereas applications in the Community of Ten and — milk of a net content not exceeding two litres, falling within CN codes ex 0401 , 0403 and ex 0404, are Portugal for STM licences for milk of a net content not hereby accepted up to a percentage of 27,30 % . exceeding two litres lodged between 20 and 24 May 1991 relate to quantities higher than the ceiling set for the 2. The issuing of STM licences is hereby provisionally second 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 30 May 1991 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 May 1991 .

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

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