Commission Regulation (EC) No 1643/1999 of 27 July 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 as regards the detailed rules for the application to milk and milk products of the schemes provided for in the Europe Agreement between the Community and Slovenia
Date: 1999-07-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Central and Eastern Europe, Slovenia, agreement (EU), liberalisation of trade, milk, milk product

28. 7. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 195/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1643/1999

of 27 July 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 as regards the detailed rules for the application to milk and
milk products of the schemes provided for in the Europe Agreement between the Community and
Slovenia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1569/1999 of 12
July 1999 on certain procedures for applying the Europe
Agreement establishing an association between the European
Communities and their Member States, acting within the
framework of the European Union, of the one part, and the
Republic of Slovenia, of the other part (1), and in particular
Article 1 thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 (2),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1311/1999 (3),
establishes, in particular, detailed rules for the applica-
tion to milk and milk products of the schemes provided
for in the Europe Agreements between the Community
and certain Central and Eastern European Countries,
including Slovenia; whereas it should be adapted accord-
ingly;

(2) Whereas the annual tariff quota system under the Agree-
ment is administered on a six-monthly basis; whereas
applications for licences for the second half of 1999 will
normally be submitted in the first ten days of
July;
whereas, as a result of the date of adoption of Regula-
tion (EC) No 1569/1999, the period for submission of
licence applications should be extended; whereas,
to
guarantee the system’s continuity, this Regulation should
enter into force immediately and apply from l July 1999;

(3) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 is amended as follows:

1. The title is replaced by the following:

‘Commission Regulation (EC) No 2508/97 of 15 December
1997 laying down detailed rules for the application to milk
and milk products of
the schemes provided for in the
Europe Agreements between the Community and the
Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland, the Czech
Republic, the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria, Romania and Slov-
enia, and the Agreements on free trade between the
Community and the Baltic States.'

2. Article 1(1)(c) is replaced by the following:

‘(c) the scheme provided for in Article 21(2) of the Europe
Agreement between the European Community and
Slovenia.'

3. In Article 4(1), the following subparagraph is added:

‘However, applications for import
licences for products
originating in Slovenia and listed in Annex I, Section K, for
the second half of 1999 may be submitted until 30 July
1999.'

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 July 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 187, 20.7.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 345, 16.12.1997, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 156, 23.6.1999, p. 16.