Commission Regulation (EC) No 1023/2006 of  5 July 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Decision 2003/286/EC as regards the concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas on certain cereal products originating in the Republic of Bulgaria and amending Regulation (EC) No 2809/2000
Date: 2006-07-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, cereal product, cereals, import licence, originating product, tariff quota

6.7.2006

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1023/2006

of 5 July 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council
Decision 2003/286/EC as regards the concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas on certain
cereal products originating in the Republic of Bulgaria and amending Regulation (EC) No 2809/2000

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

Having regard to Council Decision 2003/286/EC of 8 April
2003 on the conclusion of a Protocol adjusting the trade
aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an association
between the European Communities and their Member States,
of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other part,
to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the
parties on new mutual agricultural concessions (1), and in
particular Article 3(2) thereof,

Whereas:

1. The following Article 1a is added:

‘Article 1a

Traders may submit only one import licence application per
period concerned under Article 2(1). Where traders submit
more than one application, all their applications shall be
rejected and the securities lodged when the applications
were submitted shall be taken over by the Member State
concerned.’

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

accordance with Decision

the
In
2003/286/EC,
each
Community has undertaken to establish for
marketing year import tariff quotas at a zero rate of
duty for wheat, meslin, wheat gluten and maize origi-
nating in the Republic of Bulgaria.

2. Article 2 is amended as follows:

(a) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

In the light of
the experience gained in applying
Commission Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 (2), certain
provisions of
that Regulation should be clarified and
simplified.

to ensure that

In order
the actual quantities being
is
requested by individual
necessary to specify that traders must submit only one
import licence application per period concerned, and to
provide for a penalty in the event of a failure to meet
this requirement.

traders may be verified,

it

‘1.
Applications for import licences shall be lodged
with the competent authorities of the Member States
no later
time on the second
Monday of each month.

than 13.00 Brussels

Applicants shall submit their licence applications to the
competent authorities of the Member State in which they
are registered for VAT purposes.

Each license application shall be for a quantity not
exceeding the quantity available for the import of the
relevant product in the marketing year concerned.’

Regulation (EC) No 958/2003 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(b) Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

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

(1) OJ L 102, 24.4.2003, p. 60.
(2) OJ L 136, 4.6.2003, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1046/2005 (OJ L 172, 5.7.2005, p. 79).

If

‘3.
the quantities for each product
the total of
the marketing year and
concerned since the start of
the quantity referred to in paragraph 2 exceeds the
quota for the marketing year concerned, the Commission
shall set, no later than the third working day after the
applications were lodged, a single application coefficient
to be applied to the quantities requested.’

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(c) Paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

After applying, where necessary,

‘4.
the application
coefficients fixed in accordance with paragraph 3, the
competent authorities of the Member States shall issue,
on the fourth working day following the day on which
the application is submitted, the import licences corre-
sponding to the applications sent to the Commission in
accordance with paragraph 2.

No later than 18.00, Brussels time, on the day the
the competent authorities
import

licences are issued,

the model annexed hereto, of

shall notify the Commission electronically, on the basis
the total quantity
of
resulting from the sum of
the quantities for which
import licences have been issued on that same day.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 5 July 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission