CELEX: 31998R0076
Language: en
Date: 1998-01-12 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 76/98 of 12 January 1998 on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quota for the first quarter of 1998 (second period)

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                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 76/98
                                                    of 12 January 1998
                   on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quota for the first
                                              quarter of 1998 (second period)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      origin, for a country or group of countries referred to in
                                                                 Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 478/95, the quantities
                                                                 covered by import licence applications from one or more
                                                                 of the categories of operators exceed the quantity avail-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            able, a reduction percentage is to be applied to applica-
Community,                                                       tion for that origin; whereas, however, that provision does
                                                                 not apply to category C licence applications nor to cat-
                                                                 egory A and B applications relating to a quantity of 150
                                                                 tonnes or less, provided that the total quantity covered by
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of           the category A and B applications does not exceed, for a
13 February 1993 on the common organisation of the               given origin, 15 % of the total of the quantities applied
market in bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)        for;
No 3290/94 (2),
                                                                 Whereas the quantity applied for, for ‘Costa Rica category
                                                                 B’, exceeds the quantity available and a reduction coeffi-
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                  cient should therefore be applied; whereas import licences
1442/93 of 10 June 1993 laying down detailed rules for           may be issued for the quantity referred to in all other new
the application of the arrangements for importing                applications;
bananas into the Community (3), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1409/96 (4), and in particular Article 9
                                                                 Whereas this Regulation should apply immediately to
(3) thereof,
                                                                 permit licences to be issued as quickly as possible,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 478/95
of 1 March 1995 on additional rules for the application of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the tariff         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
quota arrangements for imports of bananas into the
Community and amending Regulation (EEC) No
1442/93 (5), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 702/95 (6),
and in particular Article 4 (3) thereof,
                                                                                           Article 1
                                                                 Import licences shall be issued under the tariff quota for
Whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No               the import of bananas during the first quarter of 1998
2534/97 of 16 December 1997 on the issuing of import             against new applications as referred to in Article 4 (1) of
licences for bananas under the tariff quota for the first        Regulation (EC) No 478/95:
quarter of 1998 and on the submission of new applica-
tions (7), fixes the quantities available for new licence
                                                                 1. for the quantity indicated in the licence applications
applications under the tariff quota during the first quarter
                                                                     multiplied, in the case of the origin ‘Costa Rica’ by the
of 1998; whereas Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                     reduction coefficient of 0,0788 for category B licence
478/95 lays down that the quantities for which licences
                                                                     applications, excluding applications relating to a quan-
may be issued for the origin(s) concerned must be deter-
                                                                     tity of 150 tonnes or less;
mined without delay;
                                                                 2. for the quantity indicated in licence application, in the
                                                                     case of an origin other than those referred to in point
Whereas Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/93                 1 above.
lays down that where, in the case of a given quarter and
(1) OJ  L  47, 25. 2. 1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ  L  349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.                                                      Article 2
(3) OJ  L  142, 12. 6. 1993, p. 6.
(4) OJ  L  181, 20. 7. 1996, p. 13.
(5) OJ  L  49, 4. 3. 1995, p. 13.
(6) OJ  L  71, 31. 3. 1995, p. 84.                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 January
(7) OJ  L  346, 17. 12. 1997, p. 75.                             1998.
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       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
       States.
       Done at Brussels, 12 January 1998.
                                                             For the Commission
                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                          Member of the Commission