Commission Regulation (EC) No 1637/2000 of 25 July 2000 fixing quantities for imports of bananas into the Community for the fourth quarter of 2000 under the tariff quotas or as part of the quantity of traditional ACP bananas
Date: 2000-07-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import, import licence, import policy, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1637/2000

of 25 July 2000

fixing quantities for imports of bananas into the Community for the fourth 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,

(4)

(5)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

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.

The quantities available for import for the fourth quarter
of 2000 from the countries or groups of countries listed
in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 should be
determined, having regard, on the one hand, to the
import licences issued for the first three quarters and, on
the other, to the volume of tariff quotas and the quantity
of traditional ACP bananas provided for in Article 18 of
Regulation (EEC) No 404/93.

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
the reference
2000 are determined on the basis of
quantity fixed for 1999 by the competent national
authority and notified to them. In the case of newcomer
operators,
this maximum quantity is determined by
applying the percentage set to the annual allocation
determined by the competent national authority in

(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.

accordance with the Annex to Commission Regulation
(EC) No 440/2000 (6), amended by Regulation (EC) No
1563/2000 (7), and notified to each operator concerned.

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

The provisions adopted in this Regulation aim to ensure
in the fourth
uninterrupted supplies to the market
quarter of 2000 and continued trade with supplying
countries but are without prejudice to any measures that
may subsequently be adopted, above all to comply with
international
the
Community within the World Trade Organisation
(WTO), and cannot be invoked by operators as grounds
for legitimate expectations regarding the extension of
the import arrangements.

commitments

entered

into

by

(6)

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

For the fourth quarter of 2000, the quantities available
1.
for import under the tariff quota arrangements for the import
of bananas or as part of
traditional ACP
bananas for each of the origins listed in Annex I to Regulation
(EC) No 2362/98 shall be as set out in the Annex.

the quantity of

For the fourth quarter of 2000, applications for import

2.
licences,

(a) submitted by a traditional operator may not relate to a
quantiy exceeding the difference between the quantity allo-
cated to the operator under Article 6(4) of Regulation (EC)
No 2362/98 for 1999, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation
(EC) No 250/2000, and the sum of the quantities covered
by import licences issued for the first three quarters of
2000;

(6) OJ L 54, 26.2.2000, p. 27.
(7) OJ L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 3.

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(b) submitted by a newcomer operator may not relate to a quantity exceeding the difference between the
quantity allocated to the operator pursuant to Article 2(7) of Regulation (EC) No 250/2000 and the
sum of the quantities covered by import licences issued for the first three quarters of 2000.

Import licence applications shall be accompanied by a copy of the import licence(s) issued to the operator
for the preceding quarters of 2000.

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

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 25 July 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

Quantities of bananas available, by origin listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2362/98, for the fourth quarter
of 2000

ANNEX

Origin

Quantity

(tonnes, net weight)

Ecuador

Costa Rica

Colombia

Panama

Other

133 450,675

131 158,964

117 874,855

80 901,315

48 248,679

Traditional ACP bananas

351 786,302