Commission Regulation (EC) No 308/2003 of 18 February 2003 fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issuing of licences for importing bananas into the Community under the tariff quotas for the second quarter of 2003
Date: 2003-02-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, import policy, quantitative restriction, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 308/2003

of 18 February 2003

fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issuing of licences for importing
bananas into the Community under the tariff quotas for the second quarter of 2003

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 2587/
2001 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

for

Article 14(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 896/
2001 of 7 May 2001 laying down detailed rules for
applying Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards
the arrangements
into the
Community (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
349/2002 (4), provides for the possibility of fixing an
indicative quantity, expressed as the same percentage of
quantities available under each of the tariff quotas, for
the purposes of issuing import licences for the first three
quarters of the year.

importing bananas

The data relating, on the one hand, to the quantities of
bananas marketed in the Community in 2002, and in
particular actual
imports, especially during the second
quarter, and, on the other hand, to the outlook for
supply and consumption on the Community market in
the same quarter of 2003 call for the fixing of indicative
quantities for quotas A, B and C that ensure satisfactory
supply to the Community as a whole and continuity of
trade flows between the production and marketing
sectors.

On the basis of the same data, the ceiling on the quanti-
ties for which individual operators can submit licence
applications in respect of the second quarter of 2003
should be fixed for the purposes of Article 14(2) of
Regulation (EC) No 896/2001.

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 126, 8.5.2001, p. 6.
(4) OJ L 55, 26.2.2002, p. 17.

(4)

(5)

Since this Regulation must apply before the beginning of
the period for the submission of licence applications in
respect of the second quarter of 2003, it should enter
into force immediately.

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

The indicative quantity provided for in Article 14(1) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 896/2001 for banana imports under the tariff
quotas provided for in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/
93 shall be equal to 29 % of the quantities available for tradi-
tional and non-traditional operators under tariff quotas A/B
and C for the second quarter of 2003.

Article 2

For the second quarter of 2003, the quantity referred to in
Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 that may be
authorised for banana imports under the tariff quotas provided
for in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 shall be equal
to:

(a) 29 % of the reference quantity established pursuant to Arti-
cles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 for tradi-
tional operators under tariff quotas A/B and C;

(b) 29 % of

the reference quantity established and notified
pursuant to Article 9(3) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001
for non-traditional operators under tariff quotas A/B and C.

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 18 February 2003.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General