Commission Regulation (EC) No 132/98 of 20 January 1998 laying down detailed rules for the application of the reduction of the rate provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 2345/97 as regards certain live bovine animals and amending Regulations (EC) No 1462/95 and (EC) No 1119/96
Date: 1998-01-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, Central and Eastern Europe, cattle, import licence, live animal, tariff reduction

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 132/98

of 20 January 1998

laying down detailed rules for the application of the reduction of the rate
provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 2345/97 as regards certain live
bovine animals and amending Regulations (EC) No 1462/95 and (EC) No 1119/96

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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 Negotia-
tions (1),
amended by Regulation (EC) No
1595/97 (2), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

last

as

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1926/96 of
7 October 1996 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 Agreements on free trade
and trade-related matters with Estonia, Latvia and Lithu-
the Agreement on Agriculture
ania,
concluded during the Uruguay Round Multilateral Trade
Negotiations (3), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

to take account

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2345/97 of
24 November 1997 providing for the reduction of the
tariff rate applicable to imports under the WTO tariff
quota for certain live bovine animals (4), and in particular
Article 2 thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1462/95 of 27
June 1995 opening and providing for the administration
of an import tariff quota for young male bovine animals
for fattening (1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996) (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 425/96 (6), provides for a
reduction in the rate of customs duty applicable to
imports in 1995/1996 of certain live animals originating
in Poland, Hungary,
the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Romania and Bulgaria to ECU 399 per tonne;

(1) OJ L 328, 30. 12. 1995, p. 31.
(2) OJ L 216, 8. 8. 1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 254, 8. 10. 1996, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 326, 28. 11. 1997, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 144, 28. 6. 1995, p. 6.
(6) OJ L 60, 9. 3. 1996, p. 1.

Whereas pursuant to Regulations (EC) No 3066/95 and
(EC) No 1926/96 the Commission was authorised to
reduce the rate of customs duty to ECU 399 per tonne for
certain live animals from the abovementioned countries
plus Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, imported during the
period 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997 pursuant Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1119/96 of 21 June 1996
opening and providing for
the administration of an
import tariff quota for young male bovine animals for
fattening (1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997) (7), as amended by
Regulation (EC) No 29/97 (8); whereas the said reduction
should be granted to the imports in question;

Whereas Regulation (EC) No 2345/97 lays down that any
reduction of
the import duty under the tariff quotas
referred to in Regulations (EC) No 1462/95 and (EC) No
1119/96 is to be extended to all imports under the said
quotas; whereas, therefore, customs duties overcharged on
all imports during the period 1 July 1995 to 30 June
1997 under the said quotas should be refunded;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The first subparagraph of Article 1(2) of Regulation

1.
(EC) No 1462/95 is replaced by the following:

The import duty applicable to the quota referred
‘2.
to the quota referred to in paragraph 1 shall be ECU
399 per tonne plus 16 % ad valorem.

The application of this rate of duty shall be subject to
fattening of
the imported animals in the Member
State of importation for a period of at least 120 days.’

In Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1119/96 the

2.
amount ‘ECU 582’ is replaced by ‘ECU 399’.

(7) OJ L 149, 22. 6. 1996, p. 4.
(8) OJ L 6, 10. 1. 1997, p. 17.

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Article 2

licences
For imports effected on the basis of
issued during the period 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1997
pursuant to the Regulations referred to in Article 1, the
difference between ECU 582 and ECU 399 shall be
refunded at the request of operators on production of the
declaration of release for free circulation of the import

import

concerned and the certificate issued pursuant to Article
880 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 and, where appro-
priate, a certified copy of the import licence.

Article 3

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, 20 January 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission