CELEX: 32000R2776
Language: en
Date: 2000-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2776/2000 of 18 December 2000 on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP bananas for the first quarter of 2001 and on the submission of new applications

19.12.2000             EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 321/45
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2776/2000
                                                          of 18 December 2000
                on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP
                       bananas for the first quarter of 2001 and on the submission of new applications
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       applied to each licence application for the origin or
                                                                                  origins involved.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     (6)     The maximum quantity for which licence applications
Community,                                                                        may still be submitted in accordance with Article 18 of
                                                                                  Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 should be set, taking
                                                                                  account of the applications accepted at the end of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13                         application period and of the available quantities.
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in
bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1257/
1999 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,                           (7)     This Regulation should apply immediately to permit
                                                                                  licences to be issued as quickly as possible.
Whereas:                                                                  (8)     The measures provided for in this Regualtion are in
                                                                                  accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                  Committee for Bananas,
(1)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 (3), as last
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 1632/2000 (4), lays
        down detailed rules for the implementation of Council
        Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 regarding imports of
        bananas into the Community.
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(2)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2374/2000 (5) lays
        down specific rules on imports of bananas under the
        tariff quotas and of traditional ACP bananas for 2001.                                         Article 1
                                                                          Import licences for bananas shall be issued under the tariff
(3)     Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 lays down                quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas referred to
        that where, in the case of a given origin or origins              in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 for the first
        referred to in Annex I, the quantities covered by import          quarter of 2001 for:
        licence applications exceed the quantity available, a
        reduction percentage must be set to be applied to
                                                                           (a) the quantity indicated in the licence application, multiplied
        applications.
                                                                               by reduction coefficients of 0,6239, 0,6816, 0,7141 and
                                                                               0,7889, for applications indicating the origins ‘Columbia’,
                                                                               ‘Costa Rica’, ‘Ecuador’ and ‘Other’ respectively;
(4)     The indicative quantities available for import under the
        tariff quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas         (b) the quantity indicated in the licence application, for
        are laid down for the first quarter of 2001 by Commis-                 applications indicating origins other than those referred to
        sion Regulation (EC) No 2599/2000 (6), which also lays                 in (a).
        down the conditions for issuing licences for the first
        quarter of 2001.
                                                                                                       Article 2
(5)     In the case of the quantities covered by licence applica-
        tions that are either less than or do not appreciably
        exceed the indicative quantities fixed for the given              The quantities for which licence applications may still be
        quarter, import licences are issued for the quantities            lodged in respect of the first quarter of 2001 are laid down in
        applied for. However, for certain origins, the quantities         the Annex.
        applied for appreciably exceed the indicative quantities.
        A reduction percentage should therefore be set to be
(1) OJ L  47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.                                                                         Article 3
(2) OJ L  160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(3) OJ L  293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(4) OJ L  187, 26.7.2000, p. 27.
(5) OJ L  275, 27.10.2000, p. 5.                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
(6) OJ L  300, 29.11.2000, p. 8.                                          tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                 Done at Brussels, 18 December 2000.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  Franz FISCHLER
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                              ANNEX
                                                                                                                     (tonnes)
                                                                           Quantities available for new applications
         Panama                                                                          36 498,141
         Traditional ACP bananas                                                        188 445,917