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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 535/2001
of 19 March 2001
on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP
bananas for the second quarter of 2001 and on the submission of new applications
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market inbananas (
1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 216/
2001 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1632/2000 (4), lays
down detailed rules for the implementation of CouncilRegulation (EEC) No 404/93 regarding imports ofbananas into the Community.
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2374/2000 (5) lays
down specific rules on imports of bananas under thetariff quotas and of traditional ACP bananas for 2001.
(3) Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 lays downthat where, in the case of a given quarter and for anyone or more of the origins listed in Annex I, the quant-ities applied for appreciably exceed and indicativequantity fixed under Article 14 or exeed the quantitiesavailable, a percentage reduction to be applied to theamounts requested shall be fixed.
(4) The indicative quantities available for import under thetariff quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananasare laid down for the second quarter of 2001 byCommission Regulation (EC) No 395/2001 (
6), which
also lays down the conditions for issuing licences for thesecond quarter of 2001.
(5) In the case of the quantities covered by licence applica-tions that are either less than or do not appreciablyexceed the indicative quantities fixed for the givenquarter, import licences are issued for the quantitiesapplied for. However, for certain origins, the quantitiesapplied for appreciably exceed the indicative quantities.A reduction percentage should therefore be set to beapplied to each licence application for the origin or
origins involved.
(6) The maximum quantity for which licence applicationsmay still be submitted in accordance with Article 18 ofRegulation (EC) No 2362/98 should be set, takingaccount of the applications accepted at the end of theapplication period and of the available quantities.
(7) This Regulation should apply immediately to permitlicences to be issued as quickly as possible.
(8) The measures provided for in this Regulation are inaccordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Bananas,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Import licences for bananas shall be issued under the tariff
quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas referred toin Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 for the secondquarter of 2001 for:
(a) the quantity indicated in the licence application, multiplied
by reduction coefficients of 0,5946, 0,8229, and 0,5248,for applications indicating the origins ‘Columbia’, ‘CostaRica’ and ‘Ecuador’ respectively;
(b) the quantity indicated in the licence application, for
applications indicating origins other than those referred toin (a).
Article 2
The quantities for which licence applications may still be
lodged in respect of the second quarter of 2001 are laid downin the Annex.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 31, 2.2.2001, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(4) OJ L 187, 26.7.2000, p. 27.
(5) OJ L 275, 27.10.2000, p. 5.
(6) OJ L 58, 28.2.2001, p. 11.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 19 March 2001.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(tonnes)
Quantities available for new applicationsANNEX
Panama 59 741,864
Others 31 423,876
Traditional ACP bananas 218 507,637