No L 53/54 . Official Journal of the European -Communities 25. 2. 89 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 20 February 1989 extending certain provisions on the supply of milk and milk products at a reduced price to cover Portugal (89/144/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 - thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (*), Whereas Article 26 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on-the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (?), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1109/88 (%), authorizes the supply at a reduced price of milk and certain milk products to pupils in educational establishments; whereas that provision was extended to cover the most deprived persons during the cold spell affecting Europe in the winter of 1987; whereas the - benefit of those arrangements should be extended to cover Portugal and also the rules -laid down in Regulations (EEC) No 1842/83 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 222/88 (%), and Regulation (EEC) No 2167/83 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 222/88 ;. Whereas the operations for supply to the most deprived persons in the winter of 1987 were intended to ease the serious difficulties encountered by those persons, and (*) Opinion delivered 17 February 1989 (not yet published in the Official Journal). - () OJ-No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. () OJ No L"110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 27. () OJ No L 183, 7. 12. 1983, p. 1. (9 O No L 28,-1. 2. 1988, p. 1. (9-OJ No L 206, 30. 7. 1983, p. 75. including, out of solidarity, in Portugal ; whereas the measures relating to school milk were introduced in particular to inculcate certain nutritional habits in pupils of educational establishments; whereas that possibility should be extended to Portugal from 1 January 1989, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The benefit of the aid-system for the supply of milk and milk products provided for. in Article 26 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 -shall be extended to cover Portugal from : — 1 January 1987 in respect of the most deprived persons, — 1 January 1989 in respect of pupils in educational - establishments. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic. Done at Brussels, 20 February 1989. For the Council - The President F. FERNANDEZ ORDONEZ