Commission Regulation (EC) No 2079/2004 of 6 December 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 for 2005
Date: 2004-12-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, import, import licence, tariff quota, tropical fruit

7.12.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 360/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2079/2004

of 6 December 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 for 2005

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004
of 29 October 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 5(4) and 6(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004 fixes at 460 000 tonnes
the additional quantity available for imports of bananas
into the new Member States in 2005, at a rate of
381 800 tonnes for traditional operators and 78 200
tonnes for non-traditional operators.

In accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of the abovemen-
tioned Regulation, the adjustment coefficients needed for
the competent national authorities to determine the
specific reference quantities of traditional operators and
the specific allocations for non-traditional operators for
2005 should be fixed.

In the light of the national authorities’ notifications, the
sum total of the specific reference quantities of traditional
operators amounts to 579 810,262 tonnes; the total of
the applications for a specific allocation made by non-
traditional operators amounts to 365 777,714 tonnes.

adjustment

The
coefficients mentioned above must
therefore be set in the light of the additional quantities
and the Member States’ notifications. So that
the
operators can submit licence applications in time, this
Regulation must enter into force immediately,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the purposes of the available additional quantity for imports
of bananas into the new Member States in 2005 as laid down
in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004:

(a)

the adjustment coefficient
to be applied to the specific
reference quantity of each traditional operator as referred
to in Article 5(4) of the abovementioned Regulation shall
be 0,65849;

(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 6(5) shall be 0,21379.

Article 2

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, 6 December 2004.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 328, 30.10.2004, p. 50.