Commission Regulation (EC) No 32/98 of 8 January 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1218/96 on partial import duty exemption for certain cereals sector products as provided for in the Agreements between the European Community and the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Romania
Date: 1998-01-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, Central and Eastern Europe, cereals, import licence, quantitative restriction, tariff exemption

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Official Journal of the European Communities

9. 1. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 32/98

of 8 January 1998

amending Regulation (EC) No 1218/96 on partial import duty exemption for
certain cereals sector products as provided for in the Agreements between the
European Community and the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary, the
Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic
of Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Cereals,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 of
22 December 1995 establishing certain concessions in the
form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural
products and providing for the adjustment, as an auto-
nomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural
concessions provided for in the Europe Agreements to
take account of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded
during the Uruguay Round Multilateral Trade Negoti-
ations (1),
amended by Regulation (EC) No
1595/97 (2), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

last

as

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1218/96 (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1986/97 (4), makes
provision in respect of the second half of the 1997/98
marketing year and subsequent marketing years
for
concessions in the form of tariff quotas; whereas it is
therefore necessary to restrict
import
licences issued in the course of the second half of the
1997/98 marketing year and in the course of subsequent
marketing years to the end of the month of July; whereas
Article 3 of the aforementioned Regulation should there-
fore be adjusted accordingly;

the validity of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1218/96 is replaced by
the following:

‘Article 3

Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 notwith-
standing, import licences shall be valid from their date
of issue until the end of the third month following
that date. They shall not, however, be valid after the
end of the month of July.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

It shall apply from 12 January 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 January 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 328, 30. 12. 1995, p. 31.
(2) OJ L 216, 8. 8. 1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 161, 29. 6. 1996, p. 51.
(4) OJ L 280, 14. 10. 1997, p. 1.