CELEX: 31999R1717
Language: en
Date: 1999-07-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1717/1999 of 30 July 1999 determining the extent to which import rights applications submitted in July 1999 under the tariff quotas for beef provided for by Regulation (EC) No 1272/1999 for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania may be accepted

L 201/74                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     31. 7. 1999
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1717/1999
                                                             of 30 July 1999
               determining the extent to which import rights applications submitted in July 1999 under the tariff
               quotas for beef provided for by Regulation (EC) No 1272/1999 for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
                                                             may be accepted
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      of the first period, the quantities available for the three
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            countries concerned for the second period running from
Community,                                                                       1 January to 30 June 2000 should be determined,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1272/1999
of 17 June 1999 laying down, for the period 1 July 1999 to 30             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
June 2000, detailed rules of application for the tariff quotas for
beef originating in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (1), and in                                          Article 1
particular Article 3(3) thereof,
(1)     Whereas Article 1(1) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No                1.    No applications for import rights were submitted for the
        1272/1999 fixes the quantities of fresh, chilled and              period from 1 July to 31 December 1999 under the import
        frozen beef and veal originating in Lithuania, Latvia and         quotas referred to in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1272/
        Estonia and of processed products originating in Latvia           1999.
        which may be imported on special terms during the                 2.    The quantities available for the period referred to in
        period 1 July to 31 December 1999; whereas no                     Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1272/1999 running from 1
        applications were submitted for import licences for beef          January to 30 June 2000 shall be:
        and veal or processed products;                                   — 1 800 tonnes for meat falling within CN codes 0201 and
(2)     Whereas Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1272/1999                  0202 originating in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia,
        states that if, during the period 1 July 1999 to 30 June          — 240 tonnes for products falling within CN code
        2000, the quantities for which applications for import                1602 50 10 originating in Latvia.
        licences are submitted for the first period are less than
        the quantities available, the balances are to be added to                                      Article 2
        the quantities available for the following period;
        whereas, in view of the quantities remaining in respect           This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 July 1999.
                       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                       Done at Brussels, 30 July 1999.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 151, 18.6.1999, p. 7.