Commission Regulation (EC) No 535/2001 of 19 March 2001 on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP bananas for the second quarter of 2001 and on the submission of new applications
Date: 2001-03-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, import licence, quantitative restriction, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 535/2001

of 19 March 2001

on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP
bananas for the second quarter of 2001 and on the submission of new applications

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

applied to each licence application for the origin or
origins involved.

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 216/
2001 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1632/2000 (4),
lays
down detailed rules for the implementation of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 regarding imports of
bananas into the Community.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2374/2000 (5)
lays
down specific rules on imports of bananas under the
tariff quotas and of traditional ACP bananas for 2001.

Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 lays down
that where, in the case of a given quarter and for any
one or more of the origins listed in Annex I, the quant-
ities applied for appreciably exceed and indicative
quantity fixed under Article 14 or exeed the quantities
available, a percentage reduction to be applied to the
amounts requested shall be fixed.

The indicative quantities available for import under the
tariff quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas
are laid down for the second quarter of 2001 by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 395/2001 (6), which
also lays down the conditions for issuing licences for the
second quarter of 2001.

In the case of the quantities covered by licence applica-
tions that are either less than or do not appreciably
exceed the indicative quantities fixed for the given
quarter,
import licences are issued for the quantities
applied for. However, for certain origins, the quantities
applied for appreciably exceed the indicative quantities.
A reduction percentage should therefore be set to be

(6)

(7)

(8)

The maximum quantity for which licence applications
may still be submitted in accordance with Article 18 of
Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 should be set,
taking
account of the applications accepted at the end of the
application period and of the available quantities.

This Regulation should apply immediately to permit
licences to be issued as quickly as possible.

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

Import licences for bananas shall be issued under the tariff
quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas referred to
in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 for the second
quarter of 2001 for:

(a) the quantity indicated in the licence application, multiplied
by reduction coefficients of 0,5946, 0,8229, and 0,5248,
for applications indicating the origins ‘Columbia’,
‘Costa
Rica’ and ‘Ecuador’ respectively;

(b) the quantity indicated in the licence application,

for
applications indicating origins other than those referred to
in (a).

Article 2

The quantities for which licence applications may still be
lodged in respect of the second quarter of 2001 are laid down
in the Annex.

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 31, 2.2.2001, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(4) OJ L 187, 26.7.2000, p. 27.
(5) OJ L 275, 27.10.2000, p. 5.
(6) OJ L 58, 28.2.2001, p. 11.

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 19 March 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Quantities available for new applications

(tonnes)

Panama

Others

Traditional ACP bananas

59 741,864

31 423,876

218 507,637