CELEX: 31976D0156
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 January 1976 concerning the issue of import licences for beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar and Swaziland

30. 1 . 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 23/ 51
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 20 January 1976
               concerning the issue of import licences for beef and veal products originating in
                                  Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar and Swaziland
                                                      (76/ 156/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 the reduction of the quantities applied for ; whereas
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   the applications submitted in the period 1 to 10
                                                                January 1976 exceed the quantity available for
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Madagascar ;     whereas      a     percentage     should
 Economic Community,                                            consequently be fixed for the reduction of the quanti­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   ties originating in that country,
 3328/75 of 18 December 1975 renewing the arrange­
 ments for the reduction of import charges on beef and          HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 veal products originating in the African, Caribbean
 and Pacific States (*),
                                                                                        Article 1
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 3376/75 of 23 December 1975 laying down rules for              1 . Import licences as provided for in Regulation
 the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No                 (EEC) No 3376/75 shall be issued for all the quanti­
 3328/75 renewing the arrangements for the reduction            ties for which applications for licences were submitted
 of import charges on beef and veal products origi­             from 1 to 10 January 1976 in respect of products
 nating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (2),       from Botswana, Kenya and Swaziland.
 and in particular the second subaparagraph of Article          2. The quantities applied for in respect               of
 2 (2) thereof,                                                 Madagascar shall be reduced by 3 07 % .
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3328/75 provides for
 the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and                                Article 2
veal products ; whereas, however, the quantities
 imported must remain within the limits laid down for           Applications for licences may be submitted, in accor­
each of the exporting non-member countries in ques­             dance with Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
 tion ;                                                         3376/75, during the first, 10 days of February 1976 for
                                                                the following quantities of boned beef and veal :
Whereas the quantities covered by the application for                   Botswana             5 733-6 metric tons,
 licences submitted from 1 to 10 January 1976,                          Kenya                    65 0 metric tons,
expressed in terms of boned meat, in accordance with                    Swaziland            1 217-9 metric tons.
Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3376/75, are lower
for the products originating in Botswana, Kenya and                                     Article 3
Swaziland than the quantities available for those
States ; whereas it is possible, therefore, to issue            This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
import licences for the quantities in respect of which
the applications have been made and to fix the
remaining quantities for which applications may be              Done at Brussels, 20 January 1976.
submitted from 1 February 1 976 ;
                                                                                          For the Commission
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3376/75 lays down that
where the applications for licences exceed the quan­                                         P.J. LARDINOIS
tity available for one of the non-member countries
concerned the Commission shall fix a percentage for                                   Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 329, 23. 12. 1975, p. 4.
(2) OJ No L 333, 30. 12. 1975, p. 44.