Commission Regulation (EC) No 1729/2000 of 3 August 2000 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1349/2000 as regards import licences for oats falling within CN code 10040000 and originating in the Republic of Estonia
Date: 2000-08-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Estonia, oats, originating product, quantitative restriction, tariff preference, tariff quota

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1729/2000

of 3 August 2000

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1349/2000 as regards
import licences for oats falling within CN code 1004 00 00 and originating in the Republic of
Estonia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1349/2000 of 19
June 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of
Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and
providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and trans-
itional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for
in the Europe Agreement with Estonia (1), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

from Article 10 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1162/95 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1432/1999 (5).

(7)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

The European Community has undertaken to establish,
for each marketing year from 1 July 2000 on, an import
tariff quota at zero duty of 3 000 tonnes of oats falling
within CN code 1004 00 00 originating in Estonia, with
an annual quota increase of 900 tonnes per marketing
year with effect from 1 July 2001.

import

That
is conditional upon presentation of an
import licence. It is therefore necessary to specify the
conditions governing the issue of such a licence.

Provision should be made for the licences covering the
import of the product in question under the fixed quant-
ities, to be issued after a period of reflection and subject,
if necessary, to a single percentage reduction in the
quantities requested.

The information which must appear on the applications
and licences should be laid down, by derogation from
Articles 8 and 21 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
3719/88 of 16 November 1988 laying down common
detailed rules for the application of the system of import
and export licences and advance fixing certificates for
agricultural products (2), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1127/1999 (3).

To take account of delivery conditions,
the import
licences should be made valid from the day on which
they are issued up to the end of the month following
that in which they are issued.

(6) With a view to guaranteeing efficient management of
the quota, it is necessary that the import licences should
not be transferable and that the import licence security
should be fixed at EUR 89 per tonne, by derogation

1.
The import of oats falling within CN code 1004 00 00
originating in Estonia and benefiting from zero import duty, in
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1349/2000 introducing a
tariff quota for that product, shall be conditional upon the
presentation of an import licence issued in accordance with
this Regulation.

The quantity to be imported shall be 3 000 tonnes for the
2000/2001 marketing year. That quantity shall be increased by
900 tonnes per marketing year with effect from 1 July 2001.

The serial number of the quota is 09.4588.

2. When released into free circulation in the Community,
the oats shall be accompanied by the original of the EUR 1
certificate to be issued by the competent authorities of Estonia.

Article 2

Applications for import licences shall be lodged with the
1.
competent authorities of the Member States no later than 1
p.m. Brussels time on the second Monday of each month.

Each licence application must be for a quantity which may not
exceed the quantity available for the import of oats in the
marketing year concerned.

2.
No later than 6 p.m. Brussels time the same day, the
competent authorities shall forward the total quantity resulting
from the sum of all quantities indicated on the import licence
applications to the Commission by fax to the number 00 32 2-
296 43 17.

That information must be notified separately from that relating
to other applications for cereal import licences and must quote
the number and title of this Regulation.

(1) OJ L 155, 28.6.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 135, 29.5.1999, p. 48.

(4) OJ L 117, 24.5.1995, p. 2.
(5) OJ L 166, 1.7.1999, p. 56.

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If the total of the quantities granted since the beginning
3.
of the marketing year plus the quantities requested on the day
in question exceeds the quota quantity for the marketing year
concerned, the Commission shall set, no later than the third
working day following the lodging of the applications, a single
reduction coefficient to be applied to the quantities requested
on the day in question.

4. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, licences shall be issued
on the fifth working day following the day on which the
application was lodged.

5.
In accordance with Article 21(2) of Regulation (EEC) No
3719/88, the period of validity of the licence shall be calcu-
lated from the actual date of its issue.

Article 3

By derogation from Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/
95, import licences shall be valid until the end of the month
following the month in which they were issued.

Article 6

The import licence application and the import licence shall
contain the following information:

(a) in box 8, the name of the country of origin; under the
terms of the licence, import from Estonia is compulsory;

(b) in box 20, one of the following indications:

— Reglamento (CE) no 1729/2000
— Forordning (EF) nr. 1729/2000
— Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1729/2000
— Καυουισµός (ΕΚ) αριθ. 1729/2000
— Regulation (EC) No 1729/2000
— Règlement (CE) no 1729/2000
— Regolamento (CE) n. 1729/2000
— Verordening (EG) nr. 1729/2000
— Regulamento (CE) n.o 1729/2000
— Asetus (EY) N:o 1729/2000
— Förordning (EG) nr 1729/2000;

Article 4

duty’.

(c) in box 24, the applicable rate of import duty, namely ‘zero

By derogation from Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88,
the rights resulting from the import
licences shall not be
transferable.

Article 7

By derogation from Article 10(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No
1162/95, the security for the import licences provided for in
this Regulation shall be EUR 89 per tonne.

Article 5

By derogation from Article 8(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/
88, the quantity released into free circulation may not exceed
that indicated in boxes 17 and 18 of the import licence. The
figure ‘0’ shall be entered to that effect in box 19 of the licence.

Article 8

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third 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, 3 August 2000.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission