31991R3103

25 . 10 . 91 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 294/ 11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3103/91 of 24 October 1991 adopting interim protective measures in regard to applications for STM licences for milk and milk products lodged between 14 and 18 October 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 Article 1 trade mechanism to milk products imported into Spain from the Community of Ten and from Portugal, as last 1 . Applications in the Community of Ten and Portugal amended by Regulation (EEC) No 334/91 (2), fixes the for STM licences as referred to in Regulation (EEC) No indicative ceilings for milk sector products for 1991 and 606/86 from 14 and 18 October 1991 for milk of a net splits these up into monthly ceilings ; content not exceeding two litres, falling within CN codes Whereas applications in the Community of Ten and ex 0401 , 0403 and ex 0404, are hereby accepted up to a Portugal for STM licences for milk of a net content not percentage of 60 % . exceeding two litres lodged between 14 and 18 October 2. The issuing of STM licences is hereby provisionally 1991 relate to quantities higher than the ceiling set for suspended for the abovementioned products above the the fourth quarter ; percentage referred to in paragraph 1 . Whereas Article 85 (1 ) of the Act of Accession states that the Commission may take interim protective measures Article 2 necessary by an emergency procedure where the situation indicates that the initiative ceiling will be attained or This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 October exceeded ; whereas to this it is necessary, as an interim 1991 .

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

Done at Brussels, 24 October 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.