Commission Regulation (EC) No 568/2007 of 24 May 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 996/97 on the opening and administration of an import tariff quota for frozen thin skirt of bovine animals falling within CN code 02062991
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, certificate of origin, frozen product, import licence, tariff quota, third country

25.5.2007

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 568/2007

of 24 May 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 996/97 on the opening and administration of an import tariff quota
for frozen thin skirt of bovine animals falling within CN code 0206 29 91

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article
32(1) thereof,

Whereas:

Commission Regulation (EC) No 996/97 (2) provides for
the opening and administration, on a multi-annual basis,
of an import tariff quota for frozen thin skirt of bovine
animals falling within CN code 0206 29 91.

1(3)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 996/97, the provisions of
Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 on applications
for
import licences, the status of applicants and the issue
of licences should apply. Chapter I and II of Regulation
(EC) No 1301/2006 should therefore apply, from 1 July
to imports licences issued for those quantities
2007,
pursuant
to Regulation (EC) No 996/97, without
prejudice to additional conditions laid down in that
Regulation.

It is necessary to align the provisions of Regulation (EC)
No 996/97 on Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 where
limits the
appropriate. That Regulation,
period of validity of
the
import tariff quota period.

in particular,
licences to the last day of

Regulation (EC) No 996/97 should therefore be amended
accordingly.

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

(5)

(6)

(7)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 of 31
August 2006 laying down common rules for the admi-
nistration of import tariff quotas for agricultural products
managed by a system of import licences (3) applies to
import licences for import tariff quota periods starting
from 1 January 2007.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 996/97 is amended as follows:

For
the quantities originating in and coming from
Argentina, as referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of Regulation
(EC) No 996/97, the provisions of Chapter III of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1301/2006 should apply, from 1 July
2007, to import licences issued pursuant to Regulation
(EC) No 996/97, without prejudice
to additional
conditions laid down in that Regulation.

1. Article 1 is amended as follows:

(a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

(4)

For the quantities originating in and coming from third
countries other than Argentina, as referred to in Article

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).

(2) OJ L 144, 4.6.1997, p. 6. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1965/2006 (OJ L 408, 30.12.2006, p. 26).

(3) OJ L 238, 1.9.2006, p. 13. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 289/2007 (OJ L 78, 17.3.2007, p. 17).

animals

‘1.
A Community import tariff quota for frozen thin
skirt of bovine
falling within CN code
0206 29 91 is hereby opened every year for an annual
volume of 1 500 tonnes for periods from 1 July to 30
June of the following year, hereinafter referred to as the
“import tariff quota period”.

The order number of the quota shall be 09.4020.’

(1)

(2)

(3)

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(b) the following paragraph 6 is added:

4. Article 7 is replaced by the following:

the

For

import

arrangements

‘6.
referred to in
paragraph 3(a) of this Article, the provisions of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1445/95, Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1291/2000 (*) and Chapter III of Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1301/2006 (**)
save as
otherwise provided for in this Regulation.

shall apply,

For the import arrangements referred to in paragraph
3(b) of this Article, the provisions of Regulations (EC)
No 1445/95,
(EC) No 1291/2000 and (EC) No
1301/2006 shall apply, save as otherwise provided for
in this Regulation.

___________
(*) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1.
(**) OJ L 238, 1.9.2006, p. 13.’

2. Article 2 is amended as follows:

(a) paragraph 1 is deleted;

(b) in paragraph 2, point (a) is replaced by the following:

‘(a)

the country of origin and,

in section 8,
the quantities
import of
1(3)(a), the box “yes” shall be ticked;’.

for the
referred to in Article

‘Article 7

In order to qualify for the import arrangements referred to in
application lodged by the
licence
Article 1(3)(b),
applicant may relate to a maximum of 80 tonnes.’

the

5. Article 8 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 8

1.
The licence applications referred to in Article 7 shall be
lodged only during the first 10 days of each import tariff
quota period.

No later than 16.00, Brussels time, on the seventh
2.
working day following the end of
the
lodging of applications, the Member States shall notify the
Commission of
the total quantity per country of origin
covered by applications.

the period for

3.
Import licences shall be issued as from the seventh and
no later than the 16th working day following the end of the
period for the notifications referred to in paragraph 2.’

6. Article 9 is deleted.

Article 2

(c) paragraph 3 is deleted;

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

3.

in Article 5(2), the second subparagraph is deleted;

It shall apply from 1 July 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 May 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission