Commission Regulation (EC) No 853/98 of 23 April 1998 amending and correcting Regulation (EC) No 546/98 laying down detailed rules for the application in 1998 of the arrangements applicable to imports laid down in Council Decision 97/831/EC as regards certain beef and veal products
Date: 1998-04-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, beef, cattle, import, import licence

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 853/98

of 23 April 1998

amending and correcting Regulation (EC) No 546/98 laying down detailed rules
for the application in 1998 of the arrangements applicable to imports laid down
in Council Decision 97/831/EC as regards certain beef and veal products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 97/831/EC of 27
November 1997 concerning the conclusion of a Coopera-
tion Agreement between the European Community and
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 77/98 of 9
January 1998 on certain procedures for applying the
Cooperation Agreement between the European Com-
munity and the former Yugoslav Republic of Mace-
donia (2), and in particular Article 1 thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 546/98 (3)
provides for imports of certain live animals of the bovine
species and of certain beef and veal products; whereas
Article 2 of that Regulation lays down active trade in beef
and veal as the only criterion for access to that quota;
whereas that criterion should accordingly be extended to
trade in live animals of the bovine species;

Whereas Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 546/98
provides that applications for import rights can be lodged
until 13 March 1998 only; whereas Regulation (EC) No
546/98 came into force on 14 March 1998 only, i.e. after
the deadline for the submission of applications; whereas
new dates should be set for the submission of applications
for import rights and their notification to the Commis-
sion;

Whereas Regulation (EC) No 546/98 provides for the
awarding of import rights expressed in carcase weight;
whereas those rights can be used to import live animals
and beef or veal; whereas, as far as imports of live animals
are concerned, for reasons of controls live animals must
be expressed in head and in liveweight on licence appli-
cations and licences and Article 5(4) of that Regulation
should be adapted accordingly;

Whereas the German and Danish language versions of
Regulation (EC) No 546/98 diverge significantly on a

(1) OJ L 348, 18. 12. 1997, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 8, 14. 1. 1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 72, 11. 3. 1998, p. 8.

series of points from those in the other official languages
of
the Community; whereas the necessary corrections
should accordingly be made to the German and Danish
language versions of the Regulation;

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

Regulation (EC) No 546/98 is hereby amended as follows:

1. In Article 2, the words ‘and/or live animals of the
bovine species’ are added after ‘in trade in beef and
veal’.

2. In Article 3:

(a) paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

Applications

import
‘3.
submitted until 27 April 1998.’;

for

rights may be

(b) the first subparagraph of paragraph 5 is replaced by

the following:

‘5.
The Member States shall notify the Commis-
sion of applications submitted for imported rights
by the fifth working day following the deadline for
submission. Notification shall consist of a list of
applicants and the quantities applied for.’

3. In Article 5:

(a) the following point is added to paragraph 3:

‘(c) in Section 17, in addition to the number of
animals, the relevant liveweight, which must
correspond to part or all of the import rights
allocated to the operator.’;

(b) paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4. Notwithstanding Article 8(4) of Regulation
(EEC) No 3719/88, the total duties laid down in
the Common Customs Tariff applicable on the
date of release for free circulation shall be collected
on that part of the weight exceeding that indicated
in the import licence.’

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Concerns the German version only.

Concerns the Danish version only.

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4

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, 23 April 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission