No L 110/32 Official Journal of the European Communities- 29. 4. 88 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1112/88 of 25 April 1988 amending Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 as regards the period of application of the intervention measures for butter and skimmed-milk powder THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to 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 (%), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 7a (1), Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (3), Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 of 16 March 1987 modifying the intervention arrangements for butter and skimmed-milk powder (*) provides that the measures laid down by that Regulation are to apply to the end of the fifth 12-month period of application of the additional levy arrangements provided for in Article Sc of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68; whereas, in view of the extension of those arrangements for an additional period of three 12-month periods, the period of application of the said measures should also be extended, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 777/87 is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 1 (2) is replaced by the following: 2. The buying in of skimmed-milk powder provided for in Article 7 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 may be suspended as soon as the quantities offered for intervention in the period from 1 March to 31 August each year exceed 100 000 tonnes.’ 2. In Article 2 the terms ‘of the fifth 12-month period’ are hereby replaced by the terms ‘of the eighth 12-month period’. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Luxembourg, 25 April 1988. 1 (1) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 13. (2) See page 27 of this Official Journal. (3) O] No C 84, 31. 3. 1988, p. 26. () OJ No L 78, 20. 3. 1987, p. 10. For the Council The President H.-D. GENSCHER