CELEX: 31998D0474
Language: en
Date: 1998-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 16 July 1998 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia (notified under document number C(1998) 2246)

25. 7. 98             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 209/59
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 16 July 1998
                  on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana,
                                 Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                      (notified under document number C(1998) 2246)
                                                          (98/474/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        whereas it is therefore possible to issue import licences in
                                                                   respect of the quantities requested;
                                                                   Whereas the quantities, in respect of which licences may
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   be applied for from 1 August 1998, should be fixed within
Community,
                                                                   the scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes;
                                                                   Whereas it seems expedient to recall that this Decision is
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of             without prejudice to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12
5 March 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricul-            December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection
tural products and certain goods resulting from the                problems on importation of bovine, ovine and caprine
processing of agricultural products originating in the             animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from
African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) or in the              third countries (5), as last amended by Directive
overseas countries and territories (OCT) (1), as last              97/79/EC (6),
amended by Regulation (EC) No 619/96 (2), and in par-
ticular Article 27 thereof,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
96 of 2 April 1996 laying down detailed rules for the
application in the beef and veal sector of Council Regula-
tion (EEC) No 715/90 on the arrangements applicable to
agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the
processing of agricultural products originating in the                                        Article 1
African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas
countries and territories (3), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 260/98 (4), and in particular Article 4 thereof,           The following Member States shall issue on 21 July 1998
                                                                   import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as
                                                                   boned meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean and
                                                                   Pacific States, in respect of the following quantities and
                                                                   countries of origin:
Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 589/96 provides
for the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and
veal products; whereas, however, imports must take place           Germany:
within the limits of the quantities specified for each of
these exporting non-member countries;                                   550,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
                                                                        150,000 tonnes originating in Namibia.
                                                                   United Kingdom:
Whereas the applications for import licences submitted
between 1 and 10 July 1998, expressed in terms of boned
meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 589/96, do                  700,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
not exceed, in respect of products originating in Bots-                  14,000 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
wana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and
Namibia, the quantities available from these States;                    370,000 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe,
                                                                    1 000,000 tonnes originating in Namibia.
(1)  OJ L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
(2)  OJ L 89, 10. 4. 1996, p. 1.
(3)  OJ L 84, 3. 4. 1996, p. 22.                                   (5) OJ L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 28.
( 4) OJ L 25, 31. 1. 1998, p. 42.                                  (6) OJ L 24, 30. 1. 1998, p. 31.
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                         Article 2                                                     Article 3
Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to               This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 589/96 during the first
10 days of August 1998 for the following quantities of
boned beef and veal:
   Botswana:            9 971,000 tonnes,                       Done at Brussels, 16 July 1998.
   Kenya:                 142,000 tonnes,
   Madagascar:          7 564,000 tonnes,
   Swaziland:           3 269,000 tonnes,                                               For the Commission
   Zimbabwe:            5 496,000 tonnes,                                                 Franz FISCHLER
   Namibia:             8 447,000 tonnes.                                           Member of the Commission