Commission Regulation (EC) No 2286/2000 of 13 October 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1773/2000 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: 2000-10-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: egg, import licence, poultrymeat

14.10.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 260/21

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2286/2000

of 13 October 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 1773/2000 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:

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1173/2000 (2) provides
for the possibility of cancelling import licences issued
for products falling within groups 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 44
and 45 listed in Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
1899/97 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1773/2000, against applications submitted between 1
and 10 July 2000 in order to limit the trade problems
that might temporarily arise from the parallel existence
of two different management procedures for some tariff
quotas in the poultrymeat sector.

issued against applications

Problems have also risen during the transitional period
with licences
submitted
between 1 and 10 April 2000 for the above products
and for hatching eggs falling within group 10. The
possibility of
and
security should therefore be
releasing the relevant
extended.

applications

cancelling

licence

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 1773/2000 applies from 1 July
2000 and this Regulation should therefore apply from
that same date.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1773/2000 is replaced by the
following:

‘Article 2

1.
Holders of import licences issued under Regulation
(EC) No 1899/97 for groups 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 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 April and 1 and 10 July 2000 may,
before 31 December 2000, request their cancellation and
release of the security.

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, indicating the
application period concerned.’

Article 2

A deadline should be laid down for the submission of
requests for cancellation, giving traders a reasonable
time for submission.

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

It shall apply from 1 July 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 13 October 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 198, 4.8.2000, p. 6.
(2) OJ L 205, 12.8.2000, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 267, 30.9.1997, p. 67.