Commission Regulation (EC) No 2795/2000 of 20 December 2000 setting rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000 under the Europe Agreement with Slovenia and repealing Regulation (EC) No 509/97
Date: 2000-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Slovenia, agreement (EU), egg, import licence, poultrymeat, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2795/2000

of 20 December 2000

setting rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by
Council Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000 under the Europe Agreement with Slovenia and repealing
Regulation (EC) No 509/97

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000 of 7
November 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 Slovenia (1), and in particular
Article 1(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

As an autonomous and transitional measure with effect
from 1 July 2000, Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000
adjusts the agricultural concessions provided for in the
Europe Agreement with Slovenia.

09.4111,

09.4084,

To allow the application of the arrangements provided
for in the above Regulation once this Regulation has
been published, the tariff quotas with the serial Nos
09.4083,
09.4112,
09.4090,
09.4115, 09.4116, 09.4117, 09.4118 and 09.4119
should be administered in accordance with Articles
308a, 308b and 308c 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 (2),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1602/2000 (3),
which codify the management rules for tariff quotas
designed to be used following the chronological order of
dates of customs declarations.

Previous tariff quotas for poultry products originating in
Slovenia were administered under Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 509/97 of 20 March 1997 laying down
procedures for applying in the poultry sector the Interim
Agreement on trade
and accompanying measures
between the European Community, the European Coal
and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy
Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Slov-
enia, of the other part (4), as amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1514/97 (5), which should be repealed.

(4)

Pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 509/97,
in July and
October 2000 import licences valid for 150 days were

(1) OJ L 286, 11.11.2000, p. 15.
(2) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 188, 26.7.2000, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 80, 21.3.1997, p. 3.
(5) OJ L 204, 31.7.1997, p. 16.

issued for certain products now covered by the quotas
introduced by Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000.

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
308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93,
import licence holders should be given the possibility of
cancellation with release of the security.

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

Repayment of import duties on products of groups 80,
90 and 100 listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
509/97 and imported under licences used from 1 July
2000 falls within the scope of Articles 878 to 898 of
Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

This Regulation should be applied from 1 July 2000 in
parallel with Regulation (EC) No 2475/2000.

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

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Tariff quotas with the serial Nos 09.4083, 09.4084, 09.4090,
09.4111, 09.4112, 09.4115, 09.4116, 09.4117, 09.4118 and
09.4119 shall be administered in accordance with Articles
308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Article 2

Holders of import licences issued under Regulation (EC) No
509/97, for groups 80, 90 and 100 listed in Annex I to
Regulation (EC) No 509/97 and applied for between 1 and 10
July 2000 or between 1 and 10 October 2000 may, before 31
March 2001, request
the
security.

their cancellation and release of

Member States shall notify to the Commission before the end
of the following month the monthly volume and cancelled
licences for each of the above groups, indicating the applica-
tion period concerned.

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Regulation (EC) No 509/97 is repealed.

Article 3

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication 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, 20 December 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission