Commission Regulation (EC) No 710/2004 of 16 April 2004 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 780/2003 as regards a tariff subquota for frozen meat of bovine animals covered by CN code 0202 and products covered by CN code 02062991
Date: 2004-04-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, frozen product, import licence, tariff quota

17.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 111/23

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 710/2004

of 16 April 2004

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 780/2003 as regards a tariff subquota for frozen meat of
bovine animals covered by CN code 0202 and products covered by CN code 0206 29 91

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article
32(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 780/2003 (2) opened
and provided for the administration of a tariff subquota
II for 34 450 tonnes of certain frozen meat of bovine
animals, with the order number 09.4003, for the period
from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004, divided into two
half-year periods.

In order to allow operators established in the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,
Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to benefit from
subquota II as from 1 May 2004, the quantities available
for the subquota period running from 1 January to 30
June 2004 were divided into two tranches on a pro rata
temporis basis pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2341/2003 (3). According to that Regulation, licence
applications may be lodged during the period 5 to 8
January 2004 and 3 to 7 May 2004.

use of the import licences for meat products under the
subquota II for that period, it is appropriate to derogate
from the first subparagraph of Article 14(7) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 780/2003 by allowing all titular holders
of import licences, without quantitative limitation, to
release meat for free circulation, which previously had
been stored under the Community bonded warehousing
system.

(4)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article
14(7) of Regulation (EC) No 780/2003,
titular holders of
import licences issued after 1 May 2004 within the framework
of Regulation (EC) No 2341/2003 may, without quantitative
limitation, release meat for free circulation which previously
has been stored under the Community bonded warehousing
system.

Article 2

(3)

The period corresponding to the second tranche lasts
only two months. The quantities available for
that
period are also relatively small. In order to optimise the

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 May 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 April 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1782/2003 (OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 114, 8.5.2003, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 346, 31.12.2003, p. 33. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 385/2004 (OJ L 64, 2.3.2004, p. 24).