Commission Regulation (EC) No 1017/2004 of 25 May 2004 fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the import of bananas into the Community in the third quarter of 2004 under tariff quotas A/B and C
Date: 2004-05-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, import licence, quantitative restriction, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1017/2004

of 25 May 2004

fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the import of
bananas into the Community in the third quarter of 2004 under tariff quotas A/B and C

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in
bananas (1), and in particular Article 20 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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 for importing bananas into
the Community (2) provides that an indicative quantity
expressed as the same percentage of available quantities
from each of the tariff quotas A, B and C provided for in
Article 18(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 may be
licences for
issuing import
fixed for the purposes of
each of the first three quarters of the year.

The data concerning, firstly, the quantities of bananas
marketed in the Community in 2003, and in particular
imports, especially during the third quarter,
the actual
and secondly,
the supply and consumption prospects
on the Community market during the same third
quarter for 2004, result in indicative quantities being
fixed for tariff quotas A and B and C so as to ensure
adequate supplies for the whole of the Community, and
the continuation of trade flows between the production
and marketing sectors.

On the basis of the same data, in accordance with Article
14(2) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001, the maximum
quantity for which each operator may submit licence
applications for the third quarter of 2004 should be
fixed.

In view of the fact that this Regulation must apply before
the start of the period for the submission of
licence
applications for the third quarter of 2004, provision
should be made for this Regulation to enter into force
immediately.

This Regulation must apply to operators established in
the Community as constituted on 30 April 2004 since
Commission Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 adopted tran-
sitional measures
into the
Community by reason of the accession of the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,
Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.

imports of bananas

for

(6)

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 referred to in Article 14(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 896/2001 for the issue of import licences for bananas
under the tariff quotas provided for in Article 18(1) of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 404/93 is hereby fixed, for the third quarter of
2004, at:

— 23 % of the quantities available for traditional operators and
non-traditional operators established in the Community as
constituted on 30 April 2004 under tariff quotas A/B,

— 28 % of the quantities available for traditional operators and
non-traditional operators established in the Community as
constituted on 30 April 2004 under tariff quota C.

Article 2

the third quarter of 2004,

For
the maximum authorised
quantity referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No
896/2001, for licence applications for the import of bananas
under the tariff quotas provided for in Article 18(1) of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 404/93 is hereby fixed at:

a) 23 % of the reference quantity established in accordance with
Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 for the
traditional operators established in the Community as
constituted on 30 April 2004 under tariff quotas A/B;

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by the 2003

Act of Accession.

(2) OJ L 126, 8.5.2001, p. 6. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 838/2004 (OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p. 52).

b) 23 % of the quantity established and notified, in accordance
with Article 9(3) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 for the
non-traditional operators established in the Community as
constituted on 30 April 2004 under tariff quotas A/B;

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c) 28 % of the reference quantity established in accordance with
Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 for the
traditional operators established in the Community as
constituted on 30 April 2004 under tariff quota C;

non-traditional operators established in the Community as
constituted on 30 April 2004 under tariff quota C.

Article 3

d) 28 % of the quantity established and notified, in accordance
with Article 9(3) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 for the

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

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

Done at Brussels, 25 May 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission