CELEX: 31997R1781
Language: en
Date: 1997-09-15 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1781/97 of 15 September 1997 on applications for import licences for rice and broken rice submitted in the first five working days of September 1997 pursuant to the arrangements provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96

L 252/24             I EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 16 . 9 . 97
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1781 /97
                                                    of 15 September 1997
                  on applications for import licences for rice and broken rice submitted in the
                  first five working days of September 1997 pursuant to the arrangements provided
                                       for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       September 1997 and the quantities available, licences may
                                                                  be issued for all the quantities applied for,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community,
                                                                                          Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 of
                                                                  1 . Reduction coefficients to be applied to quantities
24 July 1996 opening and providing for the administra­
tion of certain tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken      covered by applications for import licences submitted for
                                                                  rice and broken rice pursuant to the arrangements
rice ('), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No             provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 in the first
1 1 2/97 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) thereof,            five working days of September 1997 and which have
                                                                  been notified to the Commission , shall be as laid down in
                                                                  the Annex hereto .
Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EC) No
1522/96, the Commission must decide within 10 days of             2. The quantity available under the quota laid down in
the closing date for the submission of licence applications       Article 2 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 for
the extent to which applications can be granted and must          October 1997 shall be 9 707 tonnes for all countries.
fix the available quantities for the following tranche;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas, in the light of the quantities for which applica­        This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 September
tions are submitted during the first five working days of         1997 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                    Done at Brussels, 15 September 1997.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (') OJ L 190 , 31 . 7. 1996, p. 1 .
  2 OJ L 20, 23 . 1 . 1997, p. 23.
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                                                                   ANNEX
                                         Article 5 (2) of Regulation ( EC) No 1522/96
            Reduction coefficient to be applied to the quantities applied for:
            (a) Quota referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) (a), wholly-milled and semi-milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30
                                                            Percentage
                               Origin                        reduction
                USA                                             —
                Thailand                                         0
                Australia                                        0
                Other countries                                  0
            (b) Quota referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) (b), husked rice falling within CN code 1006 20
                                                            Percentage
                               Origin                        reduction
                Australia                                        0
                USA                                             —
                Thailand                                         0
                Other countries                                  0
            (c) Quota referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) (c), broken rice falling within CN code 1006 40 00
                                                             Percentage
                               Origin                        reduction
                Thailand                                         0
                Australia                                        0
                Guyana                                           0
                USA                                              0
                Other countries                                  0