Commission Regulation (EC) No 2541/2001 of 21 December 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for preserved mushrooms, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1921/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of import licences for products processed from fruit and vegetables
Date: 2001-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, customs regulations, import licence, mushroom-growing, preserved product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2541/2001

of 21 December 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 opening and providing for the administration of tariff
quotas for preserved mushrooms, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1921/95 laying down detailed
rules for the application of the system of import licences for products processed from fruit and
vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(3)

ucts (9), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2299/
2001 (10).

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Veget-
ables,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the markets in
processed fruit and vegetable products (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1239/2001 (2), and in particular Article
11(2) and Article 15(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1921/95 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 308/2001 (4), laid down
detailed rules for the application of the system of import
licences for products processed from fruit and vegetables
and set out a list of products covered by that system.
The aim of the system is to allow the Commission to
ensure continuous monitoring of imports of the prod-
ucts in question in order to facilitate the adoption of
appropriate measures in the event of disturbance or
threatened disturbance of the Community market. This
objective may be attained in a way that is less restrictive
for importers by carrying out surveillance in accordance
with Article 308d 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 (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 993/2001 (6). Regula-
tion (EC) No 1921/95 should therefore be repealed.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 of 6
September 1995 opening and providing for the adminis-
tration of tariff quotas for preserved mushrooms (7), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2858/2000 (8),
refers to a number of provisions of Regulation (EC) No
1921/95. Such reference should therefore, subject to
specific provisions to be specified, be replaced by refer-
ence to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 of
9 June 2000 laying down common detailed rules for the
application of the system of import and export licences
and advance fixing certificates for agricultural prod-

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 171, 26.6.2001, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 185, 4.8.1995, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 44, 15.2.2001, p. 33.
(5) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 141, 28.5.2001, p. 1.
(7) OJ L 212, 7.9.1995, p. 16.
(8) OJ L 332, 28.12.2000, p. 59.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2125/95 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 3 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 3

1.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 (*) shall
apply to the system introduced by this Regulation, subject
to the special provisions thereof.

2.
Import licences shall be valid for a period of nine
months from the effective date of issue within the meaning
of Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, but shall
not be valid after 31 December of the year concerned.

3.
The amount of the security referred to in Article 15(2)
of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 shall be EUR 24 per
tonne net.

4.
The country of origin shall be entered in box 8 of
both the licence application and the import licence and the
word “yes” shall be marked with a cross. The import licence
shall be valid only for imports originating in the country
indicated.

(*) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1.’

2. Article 4(4) is replaced by the following:

Notwithstanding Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No
the rights arising from import certificates

‘4.
1291/2000,
shall not be transferable.’

3. Article 6(1) is replaced by the following:

‘1. Member States shall notify the Commission of the
quantities for which import licence applications have been
submitted, as follows:

— each Wednesday in the case of applications made on

Monday and Tuesday,

(9) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1.
(10) OJ L 308, 27.11.2001, p. 19.

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— each Friday in the case of applications made on

Wednesday and Thursday,

1291/2000 the import duty provided for in the Common
Customs Tariff (CCT) shall be levied in full.’

— each Monday in the case of applications made on

Friday of the previous week.

These notifications shall be broken down by product,
according to the combined nomenclature, and giving
separate figures for the quantities applied for pursuant to
Article 4(1)(a) and (b) respectively.’

4. Article 9 is replaced by:

‘Article 9

1.

Regulation (EC) No 1921/95 is hereby repealed.

Article 2

At

the request of parties concerned,

2.
licences
issued under Regulation (EC) No 1921/95 shall be cancelled
in respect of quantities unused on the date of entry into
force of this Regulation. In such cases the security shall be
released.

import

Article 35(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000

1.
shall apply.

2.
In the case of quantities imported within the toler-
ance referred to in Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No

Article 3

into force on the third day
This Regulation shall enter
following its publication 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 December 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission