CELEX: 31997R1992
Language: en
Date: 1997-10-14 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1992/97 of 14 October 1997 on applications for import licences for rice submitted in the first five working days of October 1997 pursuant to the arrangements provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96

L 282/4                EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                            15 . 10 . 97
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1992/97
                                                     of 14 October 1997
                  on applications for import licences for rice submitted in the first five working
                  days of October 1997 pursuant to the arrangements provided for in Council
                                                 Regulation (EC) No 1522/96
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      October 1997 and the quantities available, licences may
                                                                 be issued subject to the application of a standard per­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            centage reduction,
Community,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 of
24 July 1996 opening and providing for the administra­                                   Article 1
tion of certain tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken
rice ('), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No            Import licences may be issued in respect of licence ap­
1 1 2/97 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) thereof,           plications for rice submitted under the arrangements
                                                                 provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 in the first
                                                                 five working days of October 1997 and notified to the
Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EC) No         Commission, subject to the application of a standard
1522/96, the Commission must decide within 10 days of
                                                                 percentage reduction to the quantities applied for of
the closing date for the submission of licence applications      59,0664 % .
the extent to which applications can be granted and must
fix the available quantities for the following tranche;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas, in the light of the quantities for which applica­       This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 October
tions are submitted during the first five working days of         1997 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 14 October 1997.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Franz FISCHLER
                                                                       Member of the Commission
 (') OJ L 190, 31 . 7. 1996, p. 1 .
 h) OJ L 20, 23. 1 . 1997, p. 23.