Commission Regulation (EC) No 1570/2003 of 5 September 2003 fixing the quantities for which applications for import licences can be lodged in respect of the period from 1 January to 30 June 2004 under the tariff quotas for beef and veal provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1279/98 for Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia
Date: 2003-09-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, beef, import licence, quantitative restriction, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1570/2003

of 5 September 2003

fixing the quantities for which applications for import licences can be lodged in respect of the
period from 1 January to 30 June 2004 under the tariff quotas for beef and veal provided for in
Council Regulation (EC) No 1279/98 for Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania
and Slovakia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1279/98 of
19 June 1998 laying down detailed rules for applying the tariff
quotas for beef and veal provided for in Council Decisions
2003/18/EC,
2003/286/EC,
2003/298/EC,
2003/263/EC and 2003/285/EC for Bulgaria,
the Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Romania, the Republic of Poland and the
Republic of Hungary (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1144/2003 (2), and in particular Article 4(4) thereof,

2003/299/EC,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1307/2003 (3)
lays
down the conditions under which applications
for
import licences lodged for the period from 1 July to 31
December 2003 can be accepted.

All the available quantities of beef and veal products
originating in Poland and Hungary (quota number
09.4707) that can be imported under special conditions
in the period from 1 July to 30 December 2003, as
provided for in the first paragraph of Article 2 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1279/98, have been used up.

Licence applications have been lodged for smaller quan-
tities of beef and veal products originating in Bulgaria,
the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania (quota number
09.4774) that can be imported under special terms in
the period from 1 July to 31 December 2003, as

provided for in the first paragraph of Article 2 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1279/98,
than the quantities actually
available. In accordance with the second paragraph of
that Article, therefore, the quantities left over from that
period should be added to the quantities available for
the following period,
the five countries
concerned.

for each of

(4)

The quantities of beef and veal products originating in
Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Poland
and Hungary that can be imported under special terms
in the period from 1 January to 30 June 2004 must be
established in the light of the available quantities left
over from the preceding period, in accordance with the
second paragraph of Regulation (EC) No 1279/98,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The quantities for which applications for import licences can
be lodged in respect of the period from 1 January to 30 June
2004 under the tariff quotas for beef and veal provided for by
Regulation (EC) No 1279/98 shall be as set out in the Annex to
this Regulation, by country of origin and quota serial number.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 September 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 September 2003.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 176, 20.6.1998, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 160, 28.6.2003, p. 44.
(3) OJ L 185, 24.7.2003, p. 16.

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Quantities available for the period referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1279/98, running from 1
January to 30 June 2004

ANNEX

Country of origin

Serial number

CN code

Hungary

Poland

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Romania

Bulgaria

09.4707

09.4774

09.4824

09.4623

09.4624

09.4644

09.4648

09.4753

09.4765

09.4768

09.4651

0201
0202

0206 10 95
0206 29 91
0210 20 10
0210 20 90
0210 99 51
0210 99 59
0210 99 90

0201
0202
1602 50 10

0201
0202

0201
0202

0206 10 95
0206 29 91
0210 20

1602 50

0201
0202

0206 10 95
0206 29 91
0210 20
0210 99 51

1602 50

0201
0202

Quantity available
(tonnes)

7 510

1 100

10 400 (1)

3 326

3 180

1 000

200

4 000

100

440

250

(1) 10 400 tonnes of beef and veal falling within CN codes 0201 and 0202 originating in Poland or 4 859,81 tonnes of processed

products falling within CN code 1602 50 originating in Poland.