Commission Regulation (EC) No 1214/1999 of 11 June 1999 concerning applications for import licences for quality common wheat and quality durum wheat under tariff quotas provided for in Regulations (EC) No 778/1999
Date: 1999-06-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common wheat, durum wheat, import licence, product quality, tariff quota

L 147/12

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

12. 6. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1214/1999

of 11 June 1999

concerning applications for import licences for quality common wheat and
quality durum wheat under tariff quotas provided for in Regulations (EC) No
778/1999

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 778/1999 of
15 April 1999 opening and providing for the administra-
tion of tariff quotas for 300 000 tonnes of quality wheat
and 50 000 tonnes of durum wheat and repealing Regula-
tions (EC) No 529/97 and (EC) No 2228/96 (2), lays down
special provisions on the organisation of imports under
the quota opened by Regulation (EC) No 1095/96;
whereas Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 778/1999
provides
to fix a uniform
percentage reduction in the quantities if applications for
import
that may be
imported; whereas applications for licences for quality
common wheat submitted between 23 April and 7 June
1999 relate to 4 140 867 tonnes of quality wheat; whereas
the maximum quantity to be allocated is 100 000 tonnes;
whereas
reduction for
import licence applications submitted between 23 April
and 7 June 1999 qualifying for the conditions provided
for in Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 must therefore be set;
licences for quality durum
Whereas applications for
wheat submitted between 23 April and 7 June 1999 relate
to 160 729 tonnes of quality durum wheat; whereas the

licences exceed the quantities

the appropriate percentage of

the Commission is

that

the appropriate percentage of

maximum quantity to be allocated is 50 000 tonnes;
whereas
reduction for
import licence applications submitted between 23 April
and 7 June 1999 qualifying for the conditions provided
for in Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 must therefore be set,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Applications for import
licences for quality common
wheat qualifying for the conditions provided for in Regu-
lation (EC) No 1095/96 submitted between 23 April and
7 June 1999 and notified to the Commission shall be
accepted for the tonnages indicated therein multiplied by
a coefficient of 0,241. Applications not notified to the
Commission shall be refused.

Article 2

Applications for import licences for quality durum wheat
qualifying for the conditions provided for in Regulation
(EC) No 1095/96 submitted between 23 April and 7 June
1999 and notified to the Commission shall be accepted
for the tonnages indicated therein multiplied by a coeffi-
cient of 0,311. Applications not notified to the Commis-
sion shall be refused.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 June 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 146, 20.6.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 101, 16.4.1999, p. 36.