Commission Regulation (EC) No 2719/98 of 16 December 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 setting rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94
Date: 1998-12-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: egg, import licence, poultrymeat, quantitative restriction

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2719/98

of 16 December 1998

amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 setting rules of application in the poultry-
meat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulation (EC)
No 3066/95 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94

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 Nego-
tiations (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2435/
98 (2), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

amendment should apply from 1 January 1998; whereas,
therefore, the Annexes to Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1899/97 (8)
amended and operators
possessing licences which are still valid should be author-
ised to use them for the new products;

should be

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75
of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the
market in eggs (3), as last amended by Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1516/96 (4), and in particular Article 22
thereof,

In Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1899/97, the following
CN codes are added in Part A under group 2, in Part B
under group 12, in Part C under group 19, in Part D
under group 28 and in Part F under group 43:

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75
of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the
market in poultrymeat (5), as last amended by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 2916/95 (6), and in particular
Article 22 thereof,

— ex 0207 35 79,

— ex 0207 36 79.

Article 2

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2783/75
of 29 October 1975 on the common system of trade for
ovalbumin and lactalbumin (7), as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 2916/95, and in particular Article 10
thereof,

Licences issued in respect of the groups referred to in
Article 1 for applications submitted during the periods 1
to 10 July and 1 to 10 October 1998 may be used for
breasts and cuts of breasts of ducks with ribs partly or
fully removed falling within CN codes ex 0207 35 79 and
ex 0207 36 79.

Whereas Regulation (EC) No 2435/98 adds to the group
of products concerned by Regulation (EC) No 3066/95
goose or duck breasts without all or some ribs at the same
preferential rates as breasts with all ribs; whereas that

(1) OJ L 328, 30. 12. 1995, p. 31.
(2) OJ L 303, 13. 11. 1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 282, 1. 11. 1975, p. 49.
(4) OJ L 189, 30. 7. 1996, p. 99.
(5) OJ L 282, 1. 11. 1975, p. 77.
(6) OJ L 305, 19. 12. 1995, p. 49.
(7) OJ L 282, 1. 11. 1975, p. 104.

Article 3

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

It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1998.

(8) OJ L 267, 30. 9. 1997, p. 67.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 December 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission