CELEX: 31996D0525
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-23 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 23 August 1996 on applications for import licenses for rice and broken rice submitted in the first five working days of August 1996 under the arrangements provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96

31 . 8 . 96          EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 221 /63
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                                                     COMMISSION
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 23 August 1996
                    on applications for import licenses for rice and broken rice submitted in the
                    first five working days of August 1996 under the arrangements provided for in
                                              Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96
                                                            (96/525/EC)
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        five working days of August 1996 and which were the
                                                                      subject of a communication to the Commission, subject
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              to the application of a percentage reduction to the quanti­
   Community,                                                         ties concerned of:
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 of             — 98,2862 % in the case of applications for rice origina­
   24 July 1996 opening and providing for the administra­                 ting in 'other countries' under the quota referred to in
  tion of certain tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken            Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,
  rice ('), and in particular Article 5 (2) thereof,                 — 89,2994 % in the case of applications for rice origina­
                                                                          ting in 'other countries' under the quota referred to in
  Whereas, under Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EC) No                      Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation .
   1 522/96, the Commission must decide within 10 days of
  the closing date for the submission of licences the extent
  to which the applications can be entertained and must fix                                    Article 2
  the available quantities for the following tranche; whereas
  the Commission must notify the Member States of its                Applications for import licences for rice from Australia
 decision as soon as possible;                                       under the quota referred to in Article 2 (2) (b) of Regula­
                                                                     tion (EC) No 1522/96 and those for broken rice from the
 Whereas, in the light of the quantities for which applica­          United States and Australia under the quota referred to in
 tions have been submitted and the quantities available in           Article 2 (2) (c) shall be granted in full .
 the first five working days of August 1996, licences can be
 issued in some cases for all the quantities applied for and
 in others by applying a standard percentage reduction,                                        Article 3
                                                                     The quantities to be carried over to the tranche for
                                                                     September 1996 shall be:
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                                                     — 21 455 tonnes from Thailand and 1 019 tonnes from
                                                                         Australia for the quota laid down in Article 2 (2) (a) of
                                                                         Regulation (EC) No 1522/96,
                            Article 1
                                                                    — 1 812 tonnes from Thailand for the quota laid down
Import licences may be issued in respect of licence appli­               in Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation,
cations for rice submitted under the arrangements                   — 31 200 tonnes from Thailand, 1 912 tonnes from
provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 in the first                  Australia, 6 377 tonnes from Guyana and 7 277 tonnes
                                                                         from other countries for the quota referred to in
(') OJ No L 190, 31 . 7. 1996, p. 1 .                                    Article 2 (2) (c).
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             This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
             Done at Brussels, 23 August 1996.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Erkki LIIKANEN
                                                               Member of the Commission