CELEX: 32000R1599
Language: en
Date: 2000-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1599/2000 of 20 July 2000 on the issue of import licences on 30 July 2000 for sheepmeat and goatmeat products pursuant to GATT-WTO non-country specific tariff quotas for the third quarter of 2000

L 182/20               EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     21.7.2000
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1599/2000
                                                            of 20 July 2000
               on the issue of import licences on 30 July 2000 for sheepmeat and goatmeat products pursuant to
                          GATT-WTO non-country specific tariff quotas for the third quarter of 2000
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     reduced by a single percentage figure in accordance with
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           Article 16(4)(b) of that Regulation.
Community,                                                               (3)    All the licence applications may be granted in cases
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 of                       where the quantities in respect of which licence applica-
26 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of                  tions have been lodged do not exceed the quantities
Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 as regards the import and                    provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1439/95.
export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector (1), as
                                                                         (4)    Applications relating to products originating in Switzer-
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 344/1999 (2), and in
                                                                                land have been lodged in Germany,
particular Article 16(4) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)     Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 laid down, in Title II B,             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        detailed rules, in respect of imports of products falling
        within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90                                           Article 1
        and 0204 pursuant to GATT/WTO non-country specific
                                                                         Germany shall, on 30 July 2000, issue the import licences
        tariff quotas; provision should be made, pursuant to
                                                                         provided for in Title II B of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 and
        Article 16(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95, for deter-
                                                                         applied for from 1 to 10 July 2000. For products falling within
        mining the extent to which import licences may be
                                                                         CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80 and 0104 20 90, the
        issued in connection with applications lodged in respect
                                                                         quantities applied for originating in Switzerland shall be
        of the third quarter of 2000.
                                                                         granted in full.
(2)     In cases where the quantities in respect of which licence
        applications have been lodged exceed the quantities                                          Article 2
        which may be imported pursuant to Article 15 of Regu-
        lation (EC) No 1439/95, such quantities should be                This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 20 July 2000.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 7.
(2) OJ L 43, 17.2.1999, p. 6.