Commission Regulation (EC) No 330/2005 of 25 February 2005 fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the purposes of the additional quantity in respect of banana imports to the new Member States for the second quarter of 2005
Date: 2005-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, import licence, tariff quota, tropical fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 330/2005

of 25 February 2005

fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the purposes
of the additional quantity in respect of banana imports to the new Member States for the second
quarter of 2005

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular the first paragraph of
Article 41 thereof,

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

Whereas:

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(1)

to accession to the

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004 (2) adopted
the transitional measures needed to facilitate the tran-
in force in the new
sition from the arrangements
Member States prior
import
arrangements in force under the common organisation
of the markets in the banana sector for the year 2005. In
order to ensure market supply, in particular in the new
that Regulation fixed an additional
Member States,
quantity on a transitional basis for
the purpose of
issuing import
licences. This additional quantity must
be managed using the mechanisms and instruments put
in place by 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
the
importing
Community (3).

bananas

into

for

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

Act of Accession.

(2) OJ L 328, 30.10.2004, p. 50.
(3) 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).

Articles 14(1) and (2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
indicative quantities and indi-
896/2001 provide that
vidual ceilings may be fixed for the purposes of issuing
import licences for each of the first three quarters of the
year.

For the purpose of fixing those indicative quantities and
individual ceilings,
it is appropriate to apply the same
percentages as those fixed for the management of A/B
and C tariff quotas in Commission Regulation (EC) No
329/2005 (4) so as to ensure adequate supplies and the
continuation of trade flows between the production and
marketing sectors.

In view of the fact that this Regulation must apply before
the start of the period for the submission of
licence
applications for the second quarter of 2005, provision
should be made for this Regulation to enter into force
immediately.

This Regulation must apply to operators established in
the Community and being registered in accordance with
Articles 5 and 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004.

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

Under the additional quantity provided for in Article 3(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004, the indicative quantity referred
to in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 for the
issue of import licences for bananas is hereby fixed, for the
second quarter of 2005, at 29 % of the quantities available
for
and non-traditional
operators as established in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1892/2004.

traditional operators

respectively

(4) See page 11 of this Official Journal.

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Article 2

Under the additional quantity provided for in Article 3(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004,
the maximum authorised
quantity referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No
896/2001 for licence applications for the import of bananas
for the second quarter of 2005, is fixed at:

(a) 29 % of

the

reference quantity notified in
accordance with Article 5(5) of Regulation (EC) No
1892/2004, in the case of traditional operators;

specific

(b) 29 % of the specific allocation notified in accordance with
Article 6(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1892/2004, in the case
of non-traditional operators.

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, 25 February 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission