CELEX: 31996R1621
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-09 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1621/96 of 9 August 1996 on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal

10 . 8 . 96          EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 202/ 11
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1621 /96
                                                    of 9 August 1996
                 on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and
                                                            veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      Whereas it should be       recalled that licences issued
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            pursuant to this Regulation will, throughout the period of
Community,
                                                                 validity, be open for use only in so far as provisions on
                                                                 health protection in force permit,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No
1036/96 of 10 June 1996 opening and providing for the
administration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh,
chilled and frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat for          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
the period 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997 ('), and in
particular Article 5 (3) thereof,
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1036/96
provides in Articles 4 and 5 the conditions for                  1 . All applications for import licences from 1 until 5
applications and for the issue of import licences for meat       August 1996 for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef
referred to in Article 2 (f);                                    and veal as referred to in Article 2 (f) of Regulation (EC)
Whereas Article 2 (f) of Regulation (EC) No 1036/96 fixes        No 1036/96 shall be granted up to 62,673 % of the
the amount of high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef         quantity applied for.
and veal originating in and imported from the United
States of America and Canada which may be imported on            2. Applications for licences may be submitted, in
special terms for the period 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997         accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1036/96,
at 10 000 tonnes;                                                during the first five days of September 1996 for 833
                                                                 tonnes .
Whereas the quantities for which import licence
applications have been submitted exceed the quantities
available; whereas, pursuant to Article 5 (3) of Regulation                               Article 2
(EC) No 1036/96, a single percentage reduction in the
quantities applied for should be fixed;                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 August 1996.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 9 August 1996.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                          Hans VAN DEN BROEK
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 138, 11 . 6. 1996, p. 1 .