Commission Regulation (EC) No 839/2004 of 28 April 2004 fixing the adjustment coefficients to be applied to the provisional reference quantities of traditional operators and the provisional allocations of non-traditional operators for the purposes of the additional quantity provided for with a view to issuing import licences for bananas in May 2004
Date: 2004-04-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, tropical fruit

29.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 127/57

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 839/2004

of 28 April 2004

fixing the adjustment coefficients to be applied to the provisional reference quantities of tradi-
tional operators and the provisional allocations of non-traditional operators for the purposes of
the additional quantity provided for with a view to issuing import licences for bananas in May
2004

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 of
28 April 2004 on transitional measures for imports of bananas
into the Community by reason of the accession of the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (1), and in particular Articles 6(2)
and 7(2) thereof,

(3)

(4)

to be applied for

the
The adjustment coefficients
purposes of determining the quantities for which import
licence applications lodged at the beginning of May may
be issued should therefore be fixed accordingly for tradi-
tional and non-traditional operators.

In order that importers can lodge licence applications at
the beginning of May 2004, this Regulation must enter
into force immediately,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 fixed the quantity avail-
able for the issue of licences in May 2004 with a view to
importing bananas into the new Member States at
87 000 tonnes, broken down into 72 210 tonnes for
traditional operators and 14 790 tonnes for non-tradi-
tional operators. To ensure that this quantity is complied
the notifications from the
with, and in the light of
national authorities, Articles 6(2) and 7(2) of the above
Regulation provide that adjustment coefficients are to be
fixed for applying to the provisional specific reference
quantities of traditional operators and the applications
for provisional specific allocations made by non-tradi-
tional operators, as the case may be.

According to the notifications from the national authori-
ties, the total provisional specific reference quantities of
traditional operators amount to 574 641,501 tonnes.
The total applications for provisional specific allocations
made
to
by
203 401,506 tonnes.

non-traditional

operators

amount

Article 1

For the purposes of the available quantity for which licences
may be issued in May 2004 for importing bananas into the
new Member States, fixed in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
838/2004:

(a) the adjustment coefficient to be applied to the provisional
specific reference quantity of each traditional operator as
referred to in Article 6(2) of the above Regulation shall be
0,67019;

(b) the adjustment coefficient to be applied to the application
for a provisional specific allocation made by each non-
traditional operator as referred to in Article 7(2) of the
above Regulation shall be 0,25073.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 April 2004.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p. 52.