Commission Regulation (EC) No 1773/2000 of 11 August 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 setting rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95
Date: 2000-08-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: egg, import licence, poultrymeat, quantitative restriction

12.8.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 205/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1773/2000

of 11 August 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 setting rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg
sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1727/2000 of 31
July 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 Hungary (1), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 of 29
September 1997 setting rules of application in the poul-
trymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by
Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 and repealing
Regualtions (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94 (2),
as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2719/98 (3),
lays
down rules of application in these sectors for the
arrangements in the Europe Agreements.
It requires
modification in line with the provisions on poultrymeat
and egg products adopted for Hungary in Regulation
(EC) No 1727/2000.

Repayment of import duties on products of groups 1, 2,
4, 7, 8, 9, 44 and 45 listed in Part A of Annex I to
Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 as it existed before entry
into force of
this Regulation and imported under
licences used from 1 July 2000 falls within the scope of
Articles 878 to 898 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the
implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/
92 establishing the Community Customs Code (4), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1602/2000 (5).

To limit the potential trade problems that might tempor-
arily arise from the parallel existence of two different
management procedures for some tariff quotas in the
poultrymeat sector,
i.e. management via the quarterly
issue of import licences and management according to
the ‘first come first served’ principle in line with Articles

(1) OJ L 198, 4.8.2000, p. 6.
(2) OJ L 267, 30.9.1997, p. 67.
(3) OJ L 342, 17.12.1998, p. 16.
(4) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 188, 26.7.2000, p. 1.

308a to 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, import
licence holders should be given the possibility of cancel-
lation with release of the security.

Application of this Regulation from 1 July 2000 in
parallel with Regulation (EC) No 1727/2000 is required.

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

(4)

(5)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 is amended as follows:

1. the title is replaced by:

‘laying down rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg
sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regula-
tions (EC) No 1727/2000 and (EC) No 3066/95 and
repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/
94’;

2. Part A of Annex I is replaced by the Annex to this Regula-

tion.

Article 2

Holders of import licences issued under Regulation (EC)
1.
No 1899/97 for groups 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 44 and 45 listed in Part
A of Annex I thereto in its version before entry into force of
this Regulation who applied for them between 1 and 10 July
2000 may request
the
security.

their cancellation with release of

2. Member States shall notify to the Commission before the
end of the following month the monthly volume of cancelled
licences for each of the said groups.

Article 3

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

It shall apply with effect from 1 July 2000.

L 205/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

12.8.2000

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

Done at Brussels, 11 August 2000.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

A. PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN HUNGARY

Duty applicable: 20 % of MFN

Group No

CN code

Description (1)

Annual quantity
from 1.7.2000 to
30.6.2001
(tonnes)

Annual increase
from 1.7.2001
(tonnes)

10
(09.4716)

11
(09.4717)

0407 00 30

Eggs of poultry in shell, not for hatching

2 625

0408 91 80

Eggs, dried, for human consumption

625

265

65

(1) Notwithstanding the rules on interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording of the product description is to be considered
as having solely indicative value, the applicability of the preference scheme being determined where this Annex is concerned by the scope
of the CN codes. When an ex CN code is indicated applicability of the scheme is determined on the joint basis of the CN code itself and
the description.’