Commission Regulation (EC) No 820/2000 of 19 April 2000 on the issuing of import licences for certain sugar sector products with EC/OCT cumulation of origin
Date: 2000-04-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, import licence, originating product, overseas countries and territories, sugar

L 100/20

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

20.4.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 820/2000

of 19 April 2000

on the issuing of import licences for certain sugar sector products with EC/OCT cumulation of
origin

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 91/482/EEC of 25 July
1991 on the association of the overseas countries and terri-
tories with the European Community (1), as last amended by
Decision 97/803/EC (2),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 465/2000 of
29 February 2000 introducing safeguard measures for imports
from the overseas countries and territories of sugar sector
products with EC/OCT cumulation of origin (3), and in partic-
ular Article 2(2)
in conjunction with Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2553/97 of 17 December 1997 on rules
for issuing import licences for certain products covered by CN
codes 1701, 1702, 1703 and 1704 and qualifying as ACP/OCT
originating products (4), and in particular Article 5(3) thereof,

thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 465/2000 allows
EC/OCT cumulation of origin for products covered by
CN codes 1701, 1806 10 30 and 1806 10 90 for up to
3 340 tonnes of sugar during the period of validity of
that Regulation. Import licences were issued for 3 000
tonnes of sugar in March 2000.

Three applications were submitted to the national
authorities in April 2000 in accordance with Regulation
(EC) No 465/2000 for import licences covering a total
quantity exceeding the available balance of 340 tonnes.

Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 465/2000, in conjunc-
tion with Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2553/97,
provides that where licence applications cover annual

quantities in excess of 3 340 tonnes of sugar,
the
Commission is to adopt a regulation fixing a single
reducing coefficient to be applied to the applications
submitted and suspend the submission of
further
applications during the year of validity of that regula-
tion.

(4)

The Commission must accordingly fix a reducing coeffi-
cient for the import licences issued and suspend the
submission of further licence applications pursuant to
Regulation (EC) No 465/2000,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The import licences applied for under Article 2 of Regulation
(EC) No 465/2000 on 7 April 2000 for 2 500 tonnes, 750
tonnes and 340 tonnes of
sugar covered by CN code
1701 99 10 shall be issued for 9,47075 % of the quantity
applied for.

Article 2

The submission of further applications during the period of
validity of Regulation (EC) No 465/2000 is hereby suspended.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion 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, 19 April 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 263, 19.9.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 329, 29.11.1997, p. 50.
(3) OJ L 56, 1.3.2000, p. 39.
(4) OJ L 349, 19.12.1997, p. 26.