31991R1861

No L 168 /44 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 6 . 91

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1861/91 of 28 June 1991 adopting interim protective measures regarding applications submitted during the period 17 to 21 June 1991 for STM licences for trade with Spain in beef and veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, applied for are likely to bring about a serious disturbance of the Spanish market for live animals ; whereas, as an Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European interim protective measure, licences should only be issued Economic Community, for up to a given percentage of the quantities applied for, 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 3690/90 of 19 December 1990 laying down detailed rules for the application of the supplementary trade mechanism to Article 1 trade in the beef and veal sector between the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 and Spain (') fixes in For live animals of the bovine species other than pure­ particular the indicative ceilings applicable to beef and bred breeding animals and animals for bullfights : veal and the maximum quantities for which STM licences 1 . applications for STM licences lodged from 17 to 21 may be issued each quarter ; June 1991 and notified to the Commission shall be Whereas Article 85 ( 1 ) of the Act of Accession makes accepted in respect of 7,318 % of the quantities provision for the Commission to take interim protective applied for therein ; measures necessary where an examination of the trend in 2. further applications may be submitted from 8 July intra-Community trade shows a significant increase in 1991 . imports carried out or foreseeable in the current year or part thereof ; Article 2 Whereas an examination of licence applications lodged from 17 to 21 June 1991 shows that the quantities This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1991 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 1991 .

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 357, 20. 12. 1990, p. 27.