Commission Regulation (EC) No 2084/1999 of 30 September 1999 opening the procedure for the allocation of export licences for cheeses to be exported in 2000 to the United States of America under certain quotas resulting from the GATT Agreements
Date: 1999-09-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: GATT, United States, cheese, export, export licence, tariff quota

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2084/1999

of 30 September 1999

opening the procedure for the allocation of export licences for cheeses to be exported in 2000 to
the United States of America under certain quotas resulting from the GATT Agreements

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27
June 1968 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1587/96 (2), and in particular Article 17(8) thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 of
26 January 1999 laying down special detailed rules of applica-
tion for export refunds on milk and milk products (3), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1596/1999 (4), and in parti-
cular Article 20(1) thereof,

(1) Whereas Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999
provides that export licences for cheese exported to the
United States of America as part of the additional quota
under the Agreements concluded during the Uruguay
Round of multilateral
trade negotiations (hereinafter
known as the Agreements) may be allocated according
to a special procedure by which preferred importers in
the United States may be designated;

Article 1

Export licences for products falling within CN code 0406 to be
exported in 2000 to the United States of America under the
additional quota resulting from the Agreements (hereinafter
known as the UR quota) and the tariff quotas originally
resulting from the Tokyo Round and granted to Austria,
Finland and Sweden by the United States of America in
Uruguay Round list XX (hereinafter known as the TR quota) as
referred to in Annex I shall be issued in accordance with the
provisions of Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999.

Article 2

1.
Applications for provisional licences shall be lodged with
the competent authorities by 7 October 1999 at the latest.
They shall not be admissible unless they contain all the details
referred to in Article 20(2) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999
and the documents mentioned therein.

(2)

whereas that procedure should be opened for exports
during 2000 and the additional rules relating to it
should be determined; whereas, given the time limit for
notification of the preferred importers in the United
States, the procedure should be opened without delay;

2. Where, for the same group of products referred to in
Annex I, column 2, the available quantity is divided between
the UR quota and the TR quota, licence applications may cover
only one of
indicate the quota
concerned, specifying the identification of the group and of the
quota indicated in Annex I, column 3.

those quotas and must

(3) Whereas

for

the

imports

administration of

the
competent authorities in the USA make a distinction
between the additional quota granted to the European
Community under the Uruguay Round and the quotas
resulting from the Tokyo Round; whereas export
licences should be allocated bearing in mind, where
necessary, the distribution of certain groups of products
according to the nature of the quota;

(4) Whereas in order to provide stability and security for
operators lodging demands under this special regime, it
is appropriate to fix the day on which applications are
deemed to have been lodged for the purposes of Article
1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999;

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

(1) OJ L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 206, 16.8.1996, p. 21.
(3) OJ L 20, 27.1.1999, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 188, 21.7.1999, p. 39.

3.
Licence applications must cover no more than 40 % of
the quantity available for the group of products indicated in
Annex I, column 4, and for the quota concerned.

4.
Applications shall not be admissible unless applicants
declare in writing that they have not lodged other applications
for the same group of products and the same quota and
undertake not to do so. If an applicant lodges different applica-
tions for the same group of products and the same quota in
one or more Member States, his applications shall be deemed
inadmissible.

5.
The details referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be
presented in accordance with the model shown in Annex II.

For the purposes of Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No
6.
174/1999, all applications lodged within the time limit shall be
deemed to have been lodged on 4 October 1999. Article 10(4)
of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 shall not apply to applica-
tions for provisional
licences lodged pursuant to this para-
graph.

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Article 3

Article 4

Member States
shall notify the Commission within four
working days of the end of the period for lodging applications
of the applications lodged for each of the groups of products
and, where applicable, the quotas indicated in Annex I. Noti-
fication shall comprise for each group and, where applicable,
for each quota:
— a list of applicants,
— the quantities applied for by each applicant broken down
by code of the export refund nomenclature for milk prod-
ucts and by their description in accordance with the
Harmonised Tariff Schedule of the United States of America
(1999),

— the quantities of those products exported by the applicant

during the previous three years,

— the name and address of the importer designated by the
applicant and whether the importer is a branch of the
applicant.

All notifications, including ‘nil’ notifications, shall be made by
telex or fax, by 13 October 1999 at the latest, on the model
form shown in Annex III.

The Commission shall, pursuant to Article 20(3, 4 and 5) of
Regulation (EC) No 174/1999, determine the allocation of
licences without delay and shall notify the Member States
thereof by 29 October 1999 at the latest.

Article 5

The information referred to in Article 5 hereto and in Article
20(2) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 shall be verified before
the final licences are issued and by 31 December 1999 at the
latest.

Where it is found that incorrect information has been supplied
by an operator to whom a provisional licence has been issued,
the licence shall be cancelled and the security forfeited.

Article 6

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

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

Done at Brussels, 30 September 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

Cheese to be exported to the United States of America in 2000 under certain quotas resulting from the GATT Agreements

Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 and Regulation (EC) No 2084/1999

Identification of group in accordance with Additional
Notes in Chapter 4 of the Harmonised Tariff Schedule of the United States of America

Quantity
available for
2000

Maximum
quantity per
application

Note No

(1)

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

Group

(2)

Identification of group
and quota

Tonnes

Tonnes

(3)

(4)

(5)

Not specifically provided for (NSPF)

16 — Tokyo

908,877

363,550

Blue Mould

Cheddar

American type

Edam/Gouda

Italian type

16 — Uruguay

2 346,000

938,400

17

18

19

20

21

300,000

120,000

1 000,000

400,000

100,000

40,000

1 000,000

400,000

700,000

280,000

Swiss or Emmenthaler cheese other than with eye formation

22 — Tokyo

393,006

157,202

22 — Uruguay

380,000

152,000

25

Swiss or Emmenthaler cheese with eye formation

25 — Tokyo

4 003,172

1 601,268

25 — Uruguay

1 220,000

488,000

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