Commission Regulation (EC) No 1402/2001 of 10 July 2001 on the issuing of reallocation licences for unused quantities covered by licences issued for bananas imports under the tariff quotas for the first and second quarters of 2001
Date: 2001-07-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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Official Journal of the European Communities

11.7.2001

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1402/2001

of 10 July 2001

on the issuing of reallocation licences for unused quantities covered by licences issued for bananas
imports under the tariff quotas for the first and second quarters of 2001

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Article 2

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)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 (3),
lays
down the new detailed rules, applicable from 1 July
for applying Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as
2001,
regards the management of
import quotas
provided for in Article 18(1) of the latter Regulation.

the tariff

(2) With a view to a smooth switchover from the detailed
rules laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No
2362/98 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1632/2000 (5), for the period 1 January 1999 to 30 June
2001, to the new detailed rules laid down in Regulation
(EC) No 896/2001 for managing the tariff quotas, provi-
sion should be made for reallocation licences to be
issued, in accordance with conditions laid down herein,
for unused quantities covered by licences issued during
the first two quarters of 2001. To the same end and for
ease of management, the term of validity of such real-
location licences should be longer than the normal term
for import licences.

(3)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Reallocation licences

1.
shall be issued on application,
submitted from 20 to 27 July 2001, by the holder or, as the
case may be, the transferee of any unused or partly used
licence(s).

2.
Applications for reallocation shall be accompanied by the
original or a certified copy of the licences not used, or used in
part only, during the first two quarters of 2001, together with
proof of lodging of a security of EUR 18 per tonne.

A percentage corresponding to the unused quantities of the
securities covering unused or partly used licences shall be
forfeited.

Proof of lodging of securities as referred to in the first subpara-
graph shall not be required in the case of licence applications
submitted by operators registered as ‘newcomers’ in accordance
with Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98.

Article 3

Box 20 of applications for reallocation licences and of realloca-
tion licences shall bear the words ‘reallocation licence — Regu-
lation (EC) No 1402/2001’.

Article 4

1.

Reallocation licences shall be issued immediately.

The term of validity of reallocation licences shall run

2.
from the date of their actual

issue to 7 January 2002.

Article 5

released for

Quantities
reallocation
licences issued pursuant to this Regulation shall not be set off
against the available quantities fixed in Article 28(1) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 896/2001.

free circulation under

Article 1

Article 6

In accordance with the conditions laid down in this Regulation,
reallocation licences shall be issued for quantities covered by
licences issued for bananas imports under the tariff quotas
provided for in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 and
not used during the first and second quarters of 2001.

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 31, 2.2.2001, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 126, 8.5.2001, p. 6.
(4) OJ L 293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(5) OJ L 187, 26.7.2000, p. 37.

The competent authorities shall inform the Commission by 31
August 2001 at the latest of the quantities covered by realloca-
tion licence applications.

Article 7

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following its publication 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, 10 July 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission