CELEX: 31996R2319
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-03 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2319/96 of 3 December 1996 concerning applications for import licences for quality wheat qualifying for the conditions referred to in Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94

4 . 12. 96              EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 314/ 19
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2319/96
                                                         of 3 December 1996
                   concerning applications for import licences for quality wheat qualifying for the
                                 conditions referred to in Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 774/94, should be
                                                                      fixed,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 of
29 March 1994 opening and providing for the administra­                                        Article 1
tion of certain Community tariff quotas for high-quality
beef, and for pigmeat, poultrymeat, wheat and meslin, and             Applications for import licences qualifying for the condi­
brans, sharps and other residues ('), as amended by                   tions referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
Commision Regulation (EC) No 2198 /95 (2), and in parti­              774/94 conveyed to the Commission before 3 December
cular Article 7 thereof,                                              1996 for durum wheat falling within CN code 1001 10 00
                                                                      submitted between 25 and 28 November 1996 shall be
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1854/94 of 27                   accepted for the tonnages indicated therein . Requests that
July 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application              are not conveyed to the Commission before 3 December
of Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 in relation to                   1996 shall be refused .
import licences for quality wheat (3), as amended by Regu­
lation (EC) No 2547/94 (4), lays down special provisions                                       Article 2
on the organization of imports under the quota opened
by Regulation (EC) No 774/94; whereas Article 3 (2) of                Applications for import licences qualifying for the condi­
Regulation (EC) No 1854/94 provides that the Commis­                  tions referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
sion is to fix a uniform percentage reduction in the quan­            774/94 conveyed to the Commission before 3 December
tities if applications for import licences exceed the quan­           1996 for soft wheat falling within CN code 1001 90 99
tities which may be imported; whereas applications for                submitted between 25 and 28 November 1996 shall be
licences submitted between 25 and 28 November 1996                    accepted for the tonnages indicated therein multiplied by
relate to 31 966 tonnes of durum wheat falling within CN              a coefficient of 0,53 . Requests that are not conveyed to
code 1001 10 00 and 378 254 tonnes of common wheat                    the Commission      before  3  December    1996   shall  be
falling within CN code 1001 90 99 and the maximum                     refused .
quantity which may be imported is 100 000 tonnes of
durum wheat and 200 000 tonnes of common wheat;                                                Article 3
whereas the percentages for the reduction in the import
licence applications submitted between 25 and 28                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 December
November 1996 qualifying for the conditions referred to                1996 .
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States .
                    Done at Brussels, 3 December 1996.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  Franz FISCHLER
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(')  OJ  No  L 91 , 8 . 4.  1994, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ  No  L 221 , 19.   9. 1995, p. 3 .
(-1) OJ  No  L  192, 28.   7. 1994, p. 31 .
  4  OJ  No  L 270 , 21 .  10 . 1994, p. 7.