Commission Regulation (EC) No 1267/2004 of 8 July 2004 fixing the adjustment coefficients to be applied to the specific reference quantities of traditional operators and to the specific allocations of non-traditional operators for the purposes of the additional quantity in respect of banana imports to the new Member States in the period 1 May to 31 December 2004
Date: 2004-07-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, import, import policy, quantitative restriction, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1267/2004

of 8 July 2004

fixing the adjustment coefficients to be applied to the specific reference quantities of traditional
operators and to the specific allocations of non-traditional operators for the purposes of the
additional quantity in respect of banana imports to the new Member States in the period 1 May
to 31 December 2004

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

specific reference quantities of traditional operators and
the specific allocations for non-traditional operators in
the period 1 May to 31 December 2004 should be fixed.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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(1) thereof,

(4)

(5)

Whereas:

In the light of the national authorities’ notifications, the
sum total of the specific reference quantities of traditional
operators amounts to 574 641,499 tonnes; the total of
the applications for a specific allocation made by non-
traditional operators amounts to 203 401,506 tonnes.

adjustment

The
coefficients mentioned above must
therefore be fixed in the light of the additional quantities
and the Member States' notifications. So that
the
operators can submit licence applications for a second
tranche within time in July 2004, this Regulation must
enter into force immediately,

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 fixes at 300 000 tonnes
the additional quantity available for imports of bananas
into the new Member States in the period from 1 May to
31 December 2004, at a rate of 249 000 tonnes for
traditional operators and 51 000 tonnes for non-tradi-
tional operators.

Pending the outcome of the controls and verifications of
the documents and supporting documents submitted by
the operators under Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No
414/2004 (2) or national provisions adopted to this end
by the new Member States before accession, Articles 5, 6
and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 provide for the
fixing for each operator, as appropriate, of a provisional
reference quantity or allocation,
so allowing import
licences to be issued at the beginning for May for an
initial tranche of the additional quantity. To this end,
Regulation (EC) No 839/2004 (3)
fixes the adjustment
coefficients necessary for determining the operators' indi-
vidual provisional quantities.

(3)

At the end of these control operations,
in accordance
with Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 838/
2004, as amended, the adjustment coefficients needed
for the competent national authorities to determine the

(1) OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p. 52. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1260/2004 (See page 16 of this Official Journal).

(2) OJ L 68, 6.3.2004, p. 6. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 689/2004 (OJ L 106, 15.4.2004, p. 17).

(3) OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p. 57.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the purposes of the available additional quantity for imports
of bananas into the new Member States in the period from 1
May to 31 December 2004 as fixed in Article 3 of Regulation
(EC) No 838/2004,

(a)

the adjustment coefficient
to be applied to the specific
reference quantity of each traditional operator as referred
to in Article 6(2) of the abovementioned Regulation shall
be 0.64964.

(b) the adjustment coefficient to be applied to the application
for a specific allocation made by each non-traditional
operator as referred to in Article 7(1) shall be 0.25073.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation 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, 8 July 2004.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ
Agriculture Director-General