Commission Regulation (EC) No 2638/1999 of 14 December 1999 concerning applications for import licences for quality common wheat and quality durum wheat under tariff quotas provided for in Regulation (EC) No 778/1999
Date: 1999-12-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common wheat, durum wheat, import licence, product quality, tariff quota

L 323/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

15. 12. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2638/1999

of 14 December 1999

concerning applications for import licences for quality common wheat and quality durum wheat
under tariff quotas provided for in Regulation (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 administration of
tariff quotas for 300 000 tonnes of quality wheat and 50 000
tonnes of durum wheat and repealing Regulations (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 Regula-
tion (EC) No 778/1999 provides that the Commission is to fix
a uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if applications
for import licences exceed the quantities that may be imported;
whereas applications for licences for quality common wheat
submitted between 24 October and 8 December 1999 relate to
the maximum
304 270 tonnes of quality wheat; whereas
quantity to be allocated is 100 000 tonnes; whereas the appro-
priate percentage of reduction for import licence applications
submitted between 24 October and 8 December 1999 quali-
fying for the conditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No
therefore be set; whereas applications for
1095/96 must
licences
submitted between 24
October and 8 December 1999 relate to 145 845 tonnes of
quality durum wheat; whereas the maximum quantity to be

for quality durum wheat

allocated is 50 000 tonnes; whereas the appropriate percentage
of reduction for import licence applications submitted between
24 October and 8 December 1999 qualifying for the condi-
tions provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 must there-
fore be set,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Applications for import licences for quality common wheat
qualifying for the conditions provided for in Regulation (EC)
No 1095/96 submitted between 24 October and 8 December
1999 and notified to the Commission shall be accepted for the
tonnages indicated therein multiplied by a coefficient of 0,329.
Applications not notified to the Commission shall be refused.

Article 2

Applications for import licences for quality durum wheat quali-
fying for the conditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No
1095/96 submitted between 24 October and 8 December
1999 and notified to the Commission shall be accepted for the
tonnages indicated therein multiplied by a coefficient of 0,343.
Applications not notified to the Commission shall be refused.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 December 1999.

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 14 December 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.