Commission Regulation (EC) No 2030/2004 of 26 November 2004 fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the import of bananas into the Community in the first quarter of 2005 under tariff quotas A/B and C
Date: 2004-11-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, import licence, quantitative restriction, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2030/2004

of 26 November 2004

fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the import of
bananas into the Community in the first quarter of 2005 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
fixed for the purposes of
licences for
issuing import
each of the first three quarters of the year.

The data concerning, firstly, the quantities of bananas
marketed in the Community in 2004, and in particular
the actual imports, especially during the first quarter, and
secondly, the supply and consumption prospects on the
Community market during the same first quarter for
2005,
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 conti-
nuation of
trade flows between the production and
marketing sectors.

result

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 first quarter of 2005 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 first quarter of 2005, provision
should be made for this Regulation to enter into force
immediately.

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

Act of Accession.

This Regulation must apply to operators established in
the Community as constituted on 30 April 2004 since
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004 (3) adopted
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.

(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 first quarter of
2005, at:

— 27 % 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,

— 27 % 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

For the first quarter of 2005, 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 Regulation (EEC) No
404/93 is hereby fixed at:

(a) 27 % of the reference quantity established and notified 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;

(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 328, 30.10.2004, p. 50.

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(b) 27 % 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;

(d) 27 % 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 quota C.

(c) 27 % of the reference quantity established and notified 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;

Article 3

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, 26 November 2004.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission