Commission Regulation (EC) No 1077/2000 of 22 May 2000 fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the import of bananas into the Community in the third quarter of 2000 under the tariff quotas or as part of the quantity of traditional ACP bananas
Date: 2000-05-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, import licence, quantitative restriction, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1077/2000

of 22 May 2000

fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the import of
bananas into the Community in the third quarter of 2000 under the tariff quotas or as part of the
quantity of traditional ACP bananas

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 1257/
1999 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 14(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2362/
98 of 28 October 1998 laying down detailed rules for
the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93
regarding imports of bananas into the Community (3), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 756/1999 (4), provides
that, for each of the first three quarters of the year, an
indicative quantity expressed as the same percentage of
available quantities from each of the origins listed in
Annex I thereto may be fixed for the purposes of issuing
import licences.

Analysis of the data on quantities of bananas marketed
in the Community in 1999, in particular actual imports
during the third quarter of that year, and on supply and
the Community market
for
consumption forecasts
during the third quarter of 2000 indicates that, in order
entire
to guarantee
Community, an indicative quantity for each of
the
origins listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2362/98
should be fixed at 25 % of the quantity allocated to that
origin.

satisfactory supply to the

a

The same data indicate that,
in application of Article
14(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98, the maximum
quantity for which each operator may submit licence
applications for the third quarter of 2000 should be
fixed.

Under Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
250/2000 of 1 February 2000 on imports of bananas
under the tariff quotas and of traditional ACP bananas,
the second
and fixing the indicative quantities for
quarter of 2000 (5), the quantities for which traditional
operators, registered in respect of 1999, may submit
applications for import licences for a given quarter of
2000 are determined on the basis of
the reference
quantity fixed for 1999 by the competent national

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(3) OJ L 293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(4) OJ L 98, 13.4.1999, p. 10.
(5) OJ L 26, 2.2.2000, p. 6.

authority and notified to them. In the case of newcomer
this maximum quantity is determined by
operators,
applying the percentage set to the annual allocation
determined by the competent national authority in
accordance with the Annex to Commission Regulation
(EC) No 440/2000 (6) and notified to each operator
concerned.

(5)

(6)

This Regulation should enter into force without delay,
before the start of the period for the submission of
licence applications for the third quarter of 2000.

The provisions of this Regulation aim to ensure uninter-
rupted supplies to the market in the third quarter of
2000 and continued trade with supplying countries but
are without prejudice to any measures that may subse-
quently be adopted, by the Council or the Commission,
above all to comply with international commitments
entered into by the Community within the World Trade
Organisation (WTO), and cannot be invoked by opera-
tors as grounds for legitimate expectations regarding the
extension of the import arrangements.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Bananas,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The indicative quantity referred to in Article 14(1) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2362/98 for imports of bananas under the tariff
quotas or as part of the quantity of traditional ACP bananas,
provided for in Articles 18 and 19 of Regulation (EEC) No
404/93 is fixed for the third quarter of 2000 at 25 % of the
quantities established for each of the origins mentioned in
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2362/98.

Article 2

1.
The quantity authorised for each traditional operator,
referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98, is
fixed for the third quarter of 2000 at 26 % of the reference
quantity which was established by the competent national
authority and notified to him in respect of 1999 under Article
6(4) of that Regulation.

(6) OJ L 54, 26.2.2000, p. 27.

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The quantity authorised for each newcomer operator, referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC)
2.
No 2362/98, is fixed for the third quarter of 2000 at 26 % of the quantity which was allocated to him
under Article 2(7) of Regulation (EC) No 250/2000.

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

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 22 May 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission