Commission Regulation (EC) No 1266/98 of 18 June 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 996/97 on the opening and administration of an import tariff quota for frozen thin skirt of bovine animals falling within CN code 0206 29 91
Date: 1998-06-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, frozen product, import licence, tariff quota, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1266/98

of 18 June 1998

amending Regulation (EC) No 996/97 on the opening and administration of an
import tariff quota for frozen thin skirt of bovine animals falling within CN
code 0206 29 91

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(a) in Section 8, the country of origin;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of
18 June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions
set out in Schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the
conclusion of the GATT XXIV.6 negotiations (1), and in
particular Article 1(1) thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 996/97 (2), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 260/98 (3), lays down
detailed rules for the application of an import quota of
1 500 tonnes of frozen thin skirt on a multiannual basis;
whereas the way in which certificates of authenticity are
to be filled in should be specified and the entries to be
made in import
relating thereto should be
supplemented;

licences

Whereas certain eligibility criteria for prospective opera-
tors should be clarified and harmonised in line with the
criteria for other import schemes;

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

(b) in Section 20, at least one of the following:

— M ´usculos del diafragma y delgados [Reglamento

(CE) no 996/97]

— Mellemgulv (forordning (EF) nr. 996/97)

— Saumfleisch (Verordnung (EG) Nr. 996/97)
— Di ˜avqacla [jamomisl ˜or (EJ) aqih. 996/97]
— Thin skirt (Regulation (EC) No 996/97)

— Hampe [r(cid:138)glement (CE) no 996/97]

— Pezzi detti
996/97]

«hampes»

[regolamento (CE) n.

— Omloop (Verordening (EG) nr. 996/97)

— Diafragma [Regulamento (CE) nº 996/97]

— Kuveliha (asetus (EY) N:o 996/97)

— Mellang(cid:132)rde (f(cid:148)rordning (EG) nr 996/97).

Import licences shall expire on 30 June following

3.
the date of issue.’

2. The following paragraph 4 is added to Article 3:

The original and copies thereof may be typed or
they must be

‘4.
hand-written.
completed in black ink and in block capitals’.

In the

latter

case,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

3. In Article 5(3) the words ‘referred to in Article 11(1)’

are deleted.

Article 1

4. Article 7(a) is replaced by the following:

Regulation (EC) No 996/97 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

‘(a) applicants for import licences must be natural or
legal persons who, when submitting their applica-
tion, must prove to the satisfaction of the com-
petent authorities of the Member State concerned
that they have traded in beef and veal with non-
member countries at least once during the previous
12 months; they must be entered on a national
VAT register.’

1.
The import of the quantities of meat referred to
in Article 1(3) shall be subject to the presentation of an
import licence.

5. Article 7(c) and (d) is repealed.

Licence applications and licences

2.
shall contain the following entries:

themselves

Article 2

(1) OJ L 146, 20. 6. 1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 144, 4. 6. 1997, p. 6.
(3) OJ L 25, 31. 1. 1998, p. 42.

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

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

Done at Brussels, 18 June 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission