Commission Regulation (EC) No 962/2007 of 14 August 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: 2007-08-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, frozen product, import licence, tariff quota

L 213/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

15.8.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 962/2007

of 14 August 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:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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.

The first paragraph of Article 8 of Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1301/2006 of 31 August 2006 laying
down common rules for the administration of import
tariff quotas for agricultural products managed by a
import
system of
licences should not be valid after the last day of the
import tariff quota period.

licences (3) provides

import

that

In order
to align the provisions of Regulation (EC)
No 996/97 to those in Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006,
Regulation (EC) No 996/97 was amended by Regulation
in particular by deleting the
(EC) No 568/2007,
provision concerning the period of validity of import
licences.

Since Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1445/95 of 26 June 1995 on rules of application for
import and export licences in the beef and veal sector (4)

provides that import licences shall be valid 90 days from
their date of issue, it is necessary to clarify in Regulation
(EC) No 996/97 that licences should be valid until the
end of the import tariff quota period.

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

In order to ensure that the import licences issued for the
import tariff quota period from 1 July 2007 to 30 June
2008 are valid until the end of that import tariff quota
period,
this amendment
applies as from the quota period starting on 1 July 2007.

should be provided that

it

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

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 996/97,
paragraph 3 is added:

the following

‘3.
By way of derogation from Article 3 of Regulation (EC)
No 1445/95, import licences shall be valid until the end of
the import tariff quota period.’

Article 2

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

It shall apply to import licences issued as from the quota period
starting on 1 July 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 August 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(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 568/2007 (OJ L 133, 25.5.2007, p. 15).

(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).

(4) OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 35. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 586/2007 (OJ L 139, 31.5.2007, p. 5).