Commission Regulation (EC) No 1575/98 of 22 July 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 865/90 laying down detailed rules for the application of the special arrangements for imports of grain sorghum and millet originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) or in the overseas countries and territories (OCT) in order to implement the agreement on agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round of negotiations
Date: 1998-07-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, GATT, import, millet, overseas countries and territories, sorghum

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1575/98

of 22 July 1998

amending Regulation (EEC) No 865/90 laying down detailed rules for the applica-
tion of the special arrangements for imports of grain sorghum and millet origin-
ating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) or in the overseas
countries and territories (OCT) in order to implement the agreement on agricul-
ture concluded during the Uruguay Round of negotiations

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

charge was abolished on 1 July 1995, the transitional
adjustment of those provisions should be extended;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 of
22 December 1994 on the adjustments and transitional
arrangements required in the agriculture sector in order to
implement
the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1340/98 (2), and in
particular Article 3(1) thereof,

concluded during

the Agreements

Whereas in order to take account of the existing import
arrangements in the cereals sector and those resulting
from the Agreement on Agriculture concluded during the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, trans-
itional measures are needed to adjust
the preferential
concessions in the form of exemption from the import
levy on certain cereal products from the ACP States and
the OCT;

Whereas the period for the adoption of transitional meas-
ures was extended until 30 June 1999 by Regulation (EC)
No 1340/98; whereas, pending the adoption by the
Council of definitive measures, application of the meas-
ures provided for by Commission Regulation (EEC) No
865/90 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1247/
97 (4), should be extended until 30 June 1999;

Whereas the rates of duties of the customs tariff within
the abovementioned quotas are those applicable on the
day that the declaration of release for free circulation of
the import is accepted;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 865/90 is hereby amended as
follows for the marketing year 1998/99:

1.

‘levy' is replaced by ‘duty' each time that it appears;

2. the last sentence of Article 2(b) and the last sentence of

Article 4(b) are deleted;

3. Article 3(b) is replaced by the following:

‘(b) the letters “ACP” or “OCT” as the case may be in

Section 8.

The licence shall oblige to import from the coun-
tries specified. The import duty shall not be
increased or adjusted.'

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 865/90 lays down detailed
rules for the application of the preferential conditions
reducing the import
levy for quotas of sorghum and
millet; whereas, given that the levies were replaced by
customs duties and the advance fixing of the import

(1) OJ L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.
(2) OJ L 184, 27. 6. 1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 90, 5. 4. 1990, p. 16.
(4) OJ L 173, 1. 7. 1997, p. 86.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 July 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission