CELEX: 31999R1039
Language: en
Date: 1999-05-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1039/1999 of 20 May 1999 on the issue of import licences for rice originating in the ACP States and the overseas countries and territories against applications submitted in the first five working days of May 1999 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97

L 127/8              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                21. 5. 1999
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1039/1999
                                                     of 20 May 1999
                 on the issue of import licences for rice originating in the ACP States and the
                 overseas countries and territories against applications submitted in the first five
                        working days of May 1999 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      appropriate, by the percentages set out in the Annex
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            hereto,
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2603/
97 of 16 December 1997 laying down the detailed rules of         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
application for the import of rice from the ACP States
and for the import of rice from the overseas countries and                                 Article 1
territories (OCT) (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1595/98 (2), and in particular Article 9(2) thereof,             Import licences for rice against applications submitted
Whereas, pursuant to Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No          during the first five working days of May 1999 pursuant to
2603/97, the Commission must decide within 10 days of            Regulation (EC) No 2603/97 and notified to the Commis-
the final date for notification by the Member States the         sion shall be issued for the quantities applied for reduced,
extent to which applications can be granted and must fix         where appropriate, by the percentages set out in the
the available quantities for the following tranche and,          Annex hereto.
where necessary, for the additional tranche for October;
Whereas examination of the quantities for which applica-                                   Article 2
tions have been submitted shows that licences should be
issued for the quantities applied for reduced, where             This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 May 1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 20 May 1999.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 351, 23.12.1997, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 208, 24.7.1998, p. 21.
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                                                          ANNEX
            to Commission Regulation of 20 May 1999, on the issue of import licences for rice origin-
            ating in the ACP States and the OCTs against applications submitted in the first five
                        working days of May 1999 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97
            Reduction percentages to be applied to quantities applied for under the tranche for May 1999 and
            quantities available for the following tranche:
                                                                                         Quantity available
                                                                                           for the tranche
                                   Origin                         Reduction (%)
                                                                                        for September 1999
                                                                                                  (t)
            OCT (Article 6)                                                                     
             CN code 1006
            ACP (Article 2(1))                                      91,3368                    41,666
             CN codes 1006 10 21 to 1006 10 98, 1006 20
                and 1006 30
            ACP (Article 3)                                         96,7175                      
             CN code 1006 40 00
            ACP + OCT (Article 7)                                                               
             ACP: CN codes 1006 10 21 to 1006 10 98,
                1006 20 and 1006 30
             OCT: CN code 1006