Commission Regulation (EC) No 1646/98 of 27 July 1998 fixing the quantities of banana imports for supply to the Community for the fourth quarter of 1998 (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-07-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import, import licence, quantitative restriction, supply, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1646/98

of 27 July 1998

fixing the quantities of banana imports for supply to the Community for the
fourth quarter of 1998

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Whereas this Regulation must enter into force imme-
diately so that
licence applications can be lodged in
respect of the fourth quarter of 1998;

Whereas the Management Committee for Bananas has
not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its
chairman,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of
13 February 1993 on the common organisation of the
market in bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 3290/94 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas Article 9(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1442/93 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1409/96 (4), provides that indicative quantities, expressed
where necessary as percentages of the shares allocated to
the various countries or groups of countries listed in
Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 478/95 (5), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 702/95 (6), or of the
quantities of those quotas available are to be fixed using
data and forecasts relating to the Community market, for
the purposes of issuing import licences for each quarter;

Whereas the tariff quota quantities available for imports
from the countries or groups of countries listed in Annex
I to Regulation (EC) No 478/95 for the fourth quarter of
1998 should be determined taking account on the one
hand of the import licences issued during the first three
quarters and on the other hand of
the tariff quota
provided for in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93
plus the quantity laid down in Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1645/98 (7);

Whereas, with a view to achieving the same objectives, the
indicative quantities provided for in Article 14(1) of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 1442/93 should be fixed for the purposes
of issuing licences for traditional banana imports from the
African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States;

Article 1

1.
The quantities available for import in respect of the
fourth quarter of 1998 under the tariff quota arrange-
ments for banana imports from the countries or groups of
countries listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 478/95
shall be as set out in Annex I hereto.

2. Applications for import licences in respect of the
fourth quarter of 1998 from individual operators may not
cover a quantity exceeding the difference between the
quantity allocated to the operator pursuant to Article 4(4)
and Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/93 and the
total quantity covered by import licences issued to him in
respect of the first three quarters. Import licence applica-
tions shall be accompanied by copies of any import
licences issued to the operator in respect of the preceding
quarters.

Article 2

Pursuant to Article 14(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/
93, quantities available for traditional imports of bananas
from the ACP States for the fourth quarter of 1998 shall
be as set out in Annex II hereto.

(1) OJ L 47, 25. 2. 1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.
(3) OJ L 142, 12. 6. 1993, p. 6.
(4) OJ L 181, 20. 7. 1996, p. 13.
(5) OJ L 49, 4. 3. 1995, p. 13.
(6) OJ L 71, 31. 3. 1995, p. 84.
(7) See page 53 of this Official Journal.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of 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, 27 July 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

Tariff quota quantities available for bananas imports from the countries or groups of countries
listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 478/95 in respect of the fourth quarter of 1998

Country

Colombia

Costa Rica

Nicaragua

Venezuela

Country

Non-traditional imports from ACP States:

Dominican Republic

Belize

C(cid:147)te d’Ivoire

Cameroon

Other ACP States

TABLE 1

TABLE 2

TABLE 3

(tonnes net weight)

(tonnes en weight)

Quantity

116 298,190

135 490,207

48 536,916

27 338,679

Quantity

9 228,302

7 950,000

1 105,513

4 950,000

853,664

Country

Other

(tonnes net weight)

Quantity

272 517,342

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ANNEX II

Quantities available for traditional imports of bananas from the ACP States in respect of the
fourth quarter of 1998

(tonnes net weight)

Country

Traditional imports from ACP States:

C(cid:147)te d’Ivoire

Cameroon

Suriname

Somalia

Jamaica

Windward Islands

Belize

Cape Verde

Madagascar

Quantity

26 750

38 206

14 915

52 724

54 619

189 309

8 272

4 800

5 900