Commission Regulation (EC) No 1293/1999 of 18 June 1999 on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP bananas for the third quarter of 1999 and on the submission of new applications
Date: 1999-06-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, import licence, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1293/1999

of 18 June 1999

on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for
traditional ACP bananas for the third quarter of 1999 and on the submission of
new applications

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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 1637/98 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2362/
98 (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 756/
1999 (4)
lays down detailed rules for the imple-
mentation of Regulation (EEC) No
404/93
regarding imports of bananas into the Community;

(2) Whereas Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98
lays down that where, in the case of a given quarter
and for any one or more of the origins listed in
Annex I,
the quantities applied for appreciably
exceed any indicative quantity fixed under Article
14, or exceed the quantities available, a percentage
reduction to be applied to the amounts requested
shall be fixed;

(3) Whereas in application of Article 14(1) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2362/98, indicative quantities for the
issuing of import licences have been fixed for the
third quarter of 1999 by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1031/1999 (5);

(4) Whereas, in the case of the quantities applied for
that are either less than or do not appreciably
exceed the indicative quantities fixed for the given
quarter, import licences are issued for the quant-
ities applied for; whereas, however,
for certain
origins,
the quantities applied for appreciably
exceed the indicative quantities; whereas, therefore,
a percentage reduction must be fixed to apply to
each licence application for the origin or origins
involved;

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 28.
(3) OJ L 293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(4) OJ L 98, 13.4.1999, p. 10.
(5) OJ L 126, 20.5.1999, p. 11.

(5) Whereas the maximum quantity for which such
licence applications may still be submitted should
be determined under Article 18 of Regulation (EC)
No 2362/98, taking into account the applications
accepted at the end of the first application period
and the available quantities;

(6) Whereas this Regulation should apply immediately
licences to be issued as quickly as

to permit
possible;

(7) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Bananas,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Import licences shall be issued, under the tariff quota
arrangements and arrangements
traditional ACP
bananas, as referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC)
No 404/93, for the third quarter of 1999:

for

(a) for the quantity indicated in the licence application,
multiplied by reduction coefficients of 0,5277, 0,6123,
0,7088 and 0,8217 for applications indicating the
origins ‘Colombia', ‘Costa Rica', ‘Ecuador' and ‘Others'
respectively;

(b) for the quantity indicated in the licence application
for an origin other than those mentioned in point (a).

Article 2

The quantities for which licence applications may still be
lodged in respect of the third quarter of 1999 are laid
down in the Annex hereto.

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, 18 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

(tonnes)

Quantities available
for new applications

83 388,765

175 520,887

Panama

Traditional ACP bananas