4.9.97 Official Journal of the European Communities L 242/29 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1717/97 of 3 September 1997 repealing certain Regulations in the cereals sector THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (%), and in particular Articles 4, 6,9 (2), 11 (3), 13 (6), 16 (2) and 26 (3) thereof, Whereas a number of Regulations in the arable crop sector are redundant as a result in particular of changes to and the repeal of the basic legislation, the fact that the conditions which those acts were created to regulate no longer exist, the adoption of new international agreements between the Community and its trading partners, and major changes which have occurred on the market; whereas, for reasons of clarity and legal certainty and for the sake of simplification, those legislative acts should be formally repealed; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are ‘in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 The Regulations listed in the Annex are hereby repealed. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following 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 Brussels, 3 September 1997. () OJ L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21. () OJ L 126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission