Commission Regulation (EC) No 825/2005 of 30 May 2005 fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the import of bananas into the Community in the third quarter of 2005 under tariff quotas A/B and C
Date: 2005-05-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, import licence, quantitative restriction, tariff quota, tropical fruit

31.5.2005

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 825/2005

of 30 May 2005

fixing certain indicative quantities and individual ceilings for the issue of licences for the import of
bananas into the Community in the third quarter of 2005 under tariff quotas A/B and C

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

of

14(1)

Regulation

Commission

Article
(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
licences for
issuing import
fixed for the purposes of
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
imports, especially during the third quarter,
the actual
and secondly,
the supply and consumption prospects
on the Community market during the same third
quarter for 2005, result in indicative quantities being
fixed for
tariff quotas A/B and C so as to ensure
adequate supplies for the Community, and the conti-
trade flows between the production and
nuation of
marketing sectors.

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 third quarter of 2005 should be
fixed.

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

Act of Accession.

(5)

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 2005 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 fixed, for the third quarter of 2005,
at:

(a) 23 % 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;

(b) 23 % 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.

(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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Article 2

the third quarter of 2005,

For
the maximum authorised
quantity referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 896/2001,
the import of
licence applications
bananas under the tariff quotas provided for in Article 18(1)
of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 is fixed at:

for

for

(c) 23 % 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;

(a) 23 % 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;

(b) 23 % 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) 23 % 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.

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, 30 May 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission