Commission Regulation (EC) No 1675/2001 of 21 August 2001 on the issuing of import licences for certain sugar-sector products qualifying as EC/OCT originating products
Date: 2001-08-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European Community, import licence, originating product, overseas countries and territories, sugar

L 226/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

22.8.2001

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1675/2001

of 21 August 2001

on the issuing of import licences for certain sugar-sector products qualifying as EC/OCT originating
products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 91/482/EEC of 25 July
1991 on the association of the overseas countries and terri-
tories with the European Community (1), as last amended by
Decision 2001/161/EC (2),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1325/2001
of 29 June 2001 as regards safeguard measures with regard to
imports from the overseas countries and territories of sugar
with EC/OCT originating status and of mixtures of sugar and
cocoa with ACP/OCT and EC/OCT originating status for the
period 1 July to 1 December 2001 (3), as amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1476/2001 (4), and in particular Article 2 thereof,
in conjunction with Commission Regulation (EC) No 2553/97
of 17 December 1997 on rules for issuing import licences for
certain products covered by CN codes 1701, 1702, 1703 and
1704 and qualifying as ACP/OCT originating products (5), and
in particular Article 5(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The first paragraph of Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No
1325/2001 allows EC/OCT cumulation of origin for
products covered by CN codes 1701, 1806 10 30 and
1806 10 90 for up to 4 848 tonnes of sugar during its
period of application.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1325/2001, two
applications were submitted to the national authorities
before 16 July 2001 for import licences covering a total
quantity exceeding the total available quantity of 4 848
tonnes.

Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1325/2001, in conjunc-
tion with Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2553/97,
provides that where licence applications cover annual
quantities in excess of 4 848 tonnes of sugar,
the
Commission is to adopt a regulation fixing a single
reducing coefficient to be applied to the applications
further
submitted and suspend the submission of
applications during the period of application of Regula-
tion (EC) No 1325/2001.

(4)

The Commission must accordingly fix a reducing coeffi-
cient for the purposes of issuing the import licences and
suspend the submission of further licence applications
pursuant to Regulation No 1325/2001,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The import licences applied for under the second indent of the
second subparagraph of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1325/2001 on 2 July 2001 for 4 848 tonnes and on 11 July
2001 for 2 172 tonnes of
sugar covered by CN code
1701 99 10 shall be issued for 69,1 % of the quantity applied
for in both cases.

Article 2

The submission of further applications during the period of
application of Regulation (EC) No 1325/2001 is hereby
suspended.

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 21 August 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 263, 19.9.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 58, 26.6.2001, p. 21.
(3) OJ L 177, 30.6.2001, p. 57.
(4) OJ L 195, 19.7.2001, p. 29.
(5) OJ L 349, 19.12.1997, p. 26.