CELEX: 32000D0570
Language: en
Date: 2000-09-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 September 2000 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia (notified under document number C(2000) 2610)

22.9.2000               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 238/63
                                                          COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 19 September 2000
                on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya,
                                            Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                              (notified under document number C(2000) 2610)
                                                                (2000/570/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                                   Article 1
Community,
                                                                           The following Member States shall issue on 21 September
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of 20                  2000 import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as
July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-             boned meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean and
ucts and goods resulting from the processing of agricultural               Pacific States, in respect of the following quantities and coun-
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific                 tries of origin:
States (ACP States) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 715/
90 (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,                              Germany:
                                                                           — 1 000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 of
9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the applica-               — 500 tonnes originating in Namibia;
tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation (EC) No             United Kingdom:
1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-
ucts and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul-           — 500 tonnes originating in Botswana,
tural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific           — 355 tonnes originating in Namibia,
States and repealing Regulation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in
particular Article 4 thereof,                                              — 30 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
                                                                           — 2 000 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe.
Whereas:
(1)     Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 provides for                                            Article 2
        the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and            Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to Article 3(2)
        veal products. However, imports must take place within             of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the first 10 days of
        the limits of the quantities specified for each of these           October 2000 for the following quantities of boned beef and
        exporting non-member countries.                                    veal:
(2)     The applications for import licences submitted between             — Botswana:                                        9 776 tonnes,
        1 and 10 September 2000, expressed in terms of boned               — Kenya:                                             142 tonnes,
        meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1918/98,               — Madagascar:                                      7 579 tonnes,
        do not exceed, in respect of products originating from             — Swaziland:                                       2 853 tonnes,
        Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
        and Namibia, the quantities available from those States.           — Zimbabwe:                                        1 585 tonnes,
        It is therefore possible to issue import licences in respect       — Namibia:                                         6 608 tonnes.
        of the quantities applied for.
                                                                                                        Article 3
(3)     The quantities in respect of which licences may be
        applied for from 1 October 2000 should be fixed within             This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
        the scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes.
(4)     This Decision is without prejudice to Council Directive            Done at Brussels, 19 September 2000.
        72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veter-
        inary inspection problems on importation of bovine,                                                 For the Commission
        ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or
                                                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
        meat products from third countries (3), as last amended
        by Directive 97/79/EC (4),                                                                       Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  215, 1.8.1998, p. 12.
(2) OJ L  250, 10.9.1998, p. 16.
(3) OJ L  302, 31.12.1972, p. 28.
(4) OJ L  24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.