31992R0997

No L 105/22 23 . 4. 92 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 997/92 of 22 April 1992 adopting interim protective measures in regard to applications for STM licences for milk and milk products lodged between 13 and 17 April 1992 in regard to Spain

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, protective measure, in view of the number of requests, for the product 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 product 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 705/92 (2), fixes the 1 . Applications in the Community of Ten and Portugal indicative ceilings for milk sector products for 1992 and for STM licences as referred to in Regulation (EEC) No splits these up into monthly ceilings ; 606/86 from 13 to 17' April 1992 for milk falling within CN code ex 0401 and ex 0403 are hereby accepted up to Whereas applications in the Community of Ten and a percentage of 59,63 % . Portugal for STM licences for milk in small packages lodged between 13 and 17 April 1992 relate to quantities 2. The issuing of STM licences is hereby provisionally higher than the ceiling set for the month of April ; suspended for the abovementioned product for the appli­ cations lodged from 20 April 1992. Whereas Article 85 (1 ) of the Act of Accession states that 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 23 April 1992.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 April 1992.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

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