Commission Regulation (EC) No 1424/2004 of 6 August 2004 fixing quantities for importing bananas into the Community under the tariff quotas A/B and C for the fourth quarter of 2004
Date: 2004-08-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, tariff quota

7.8.2004

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1424/2004

of 6 August 2004

fixing quantities for importing bananas into the Community under the tariff quotas A/B and C for
the fourth quarter of 2004

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

regards

the arrangements

Commission Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 lays down
detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EEC) No
importing
404/93 as
is necessary to
bananas
determine the quantities available for imports during
the
the last quarter of 2004 in the framework of
import tariff quotas A/B and C provided for in Article
18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93.

into the Community (2).

for

It

The quantities available for import under the A/B and C
tariff quotas for the fourth quarter of 2004 should be
determined, having regard, on the one hand,
to the
volume of tariff quotas provided for in Article 18 of
Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 and, on the other hand,
to the import licences issued for the first three quarters
of 2004. For traditional operators, however, these quan-
tities are determined on a provisional basis in accordance
with Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
2036/2003 of 19 November 2003 derogating from
Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 as regards the fixing of
adjustment coefficients to be applied to the reference
quantity for each traditional operator under the tariff
quotas for banana imports for 2004 (3).

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
For the fourth quarter of 2004, the quantities available for
import under the tariff quota arrangements for the import of
bananas shall be as set out in the Annex.

For the fourth quarter of 2004, applications for import

2.
licences under the A/B and C tariff quotas:

(a) submitted by a traditional operator may not relate to a
quantity exceeding the difference between the reference
quantity established pursuant to Articles 4 and 5 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 896/2001 and the sum of the quantities
covered by import
three
quarters of 2004;

issued for

the first

licences

(b) submitted by a non-traditional operator may not relate to a
quantity exceeding the difference between the annual
quantity determined and notified to the operator pursuant
to Article 9(3) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 and the
sum of the quantities covered by import licences issued for
the first three quarters of 2004.

(3)

Since this Regulation must apply before the beginning of
the period for the submission of licence applications in
respect of the fourth quarter of 2004,
it should enter
into force immediately.

(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).

(3) OJ L 302, 20.11.2003, p. 7.

To be accepted, applications for import licences shall be accom-
panied by a copy of the import licence(s) issued to the operator
for the preceding quarters of 2004.

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, 6 August 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

Quantities of available bananas by tariff quota and operator category for the fourth quarter of 2004

ANNEX

Tariff quotas

Operator category

A/B

C

Traditional

Non-traditional

Traditional

Non-traditional

(tonnes, net weight)

Quantity

590 229,525

95 204,274

116 157,069

14 171,526