CELEX: 32000D0397
Language: en
Date: 2000-06-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 June 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) 1506)

23.6.2000              EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 149/37
                                                          COMMISSION
                                                         COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 19 June 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) 1506)
                                                               (2000/397/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       therefore possible to issue import licences in respect of
                                                                                  the quantities applied for.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     (3)     The quantities in respect of which licences may be
Community,                                                                        applied for from 1 July 2000 should be fixed within the
                                                                                  scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of 20                 (4)     This Decision is without prejudice to Council Directive
July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-                    72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veter-
ucts and goods resulting from the processing of agricultural                      inary inspection problems on importation of bovine,
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific                        ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or
States (ACP States) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 715/                        meat products from third countries (3), as last amended
90 (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,                                     by Directive 97/79/EC (4),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 of
9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the applica-
tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation (EC) No            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-
ucts and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul-
tural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
States and repealing Regulation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in                                             Article 1
particular Article 4 thereof,
                                                                          The following Member States shall issue on 21 June 2000
                                                                          import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as boned
Whereas:                                                                  meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                          States, in respect of the following quantities and countries of
                                                                          origin:
(1)     Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 provides for
        the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and           Germany:
        veal products. However, imports must take place within
        the limits of the quantities specified for each of these          — 650 tonnes originating in Botswana,
        exporting non-member countries.                                   — 150 tonnes originating in Namibia;
                                                                          United Kingdom:
(2)     The applications for import licences submitted between
        1 and 10 June 2000, expressed in terms of boned meat,             — 500 tonnes originating in Botswana,
        in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, do not             — 702 tonnes originating in Namibia,
        exceed, in respect of products originating from Bots-
        wana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and                  —     50 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
        Namibia, the quantities available from those States. It is        — 820 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe.
(1) OJ L 215, 1.8.1998, p. 12.                                            (3) OJ L 302, 31.12.1972, p. 28.
(2) OJ L 250, 10.9.1998, p. 16.                                           (4) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.
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                          Article 2                                                             Article 3
Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to Article 3(2)       This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the first 10 days of July
2000 for the following quantities of boned beef and veal:
— Botswana:                                     14 576 tonnes,        Done at Brussels, 19 June 2000.
— Kenya:                                            142 tonnes,
— Madagascar:                                    7 579 tonnes,
— Swaziland:                                     3 083 tonnes,                                      For the Commission
— Zimbabwe:                                      5 790 tonnes,                                         Franz FISCHLER
— Namibia:                                       9 423 tonnes.                                  Member of the Commission