CELEX: 31997R2461
Language: en
Date: 1997-12-10 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2461/97 of 10 December 1997 on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal

11 . 12. 97        | EN I             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 340/39
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2461/97
                                                   of 10 December 1997
                  on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and
                                                             veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       validity, be open for use only in so far as provisions on
                                                                  health protection in force permit,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 936/97             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of 27 May 1997 opening and providing for the adminis­
tration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and                               Article 1
frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat (1),
                                                                  1 . All applications for import licences from 1 to 5
Whereas Commission          Regulation (EC) No 936/97             December 1997 for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen
provides in Articles 4 and 5 the conditions for                   beef and veal as referred to in Article 2 (f) of Regulation
applications and for the issue of import licences for meat        (EC) No 936/97 shall be granted in full.
referred to in Article 2 (f);
                                                                  2. Applications for licences may be submitted, in
Whereas Article 2 (f) of Regulation (EC) No 936/97 fixes          accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 936/97,
the amount of high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef          during the first five days of January 1998 for 2 670
and veal originating in and imported from the United              tonnes .
States of America and Canada which may be imported on
special terms for the period 1 July 1997 to 30 June 1998
at 11 500 tonnes;                                                                          Article 2
Whereas it should be recalled that licences issued                This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 December
pursuant to this Regulation will, throughout the period of        1997 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 10 December 1997.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(•) OJ L 137, 28 . 5. 1997, p. 10.