CELEX: 32000D0342
Language: en
Date: 2000-04-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 April 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) 1091)

L 119/34               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                     20.5.2000
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                                                  (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                          COMMISSION
                                                         COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 17 April 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) 1091)
                                                               (2000/342/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       wana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and
                                                                                  Namibia, the quantities available from those States. It is
                                                                                  therefore possible to issue import licences in respect of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             the quantities applied for.
Community,
                                                                          (3)     The quantities in respect of which licences may be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of 20                         applied for from 1 May 2000 should be fixed within the
July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-                    scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes.
ucts and goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                          (4)     This Decision is without prejudice to Council Directive
States (ACP States) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 715/
                                                                                  72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veter-
90 (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,
                                                                                  inary inspection problems on importation of bovine,
                                                                                  ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 of                         meat products from third countries (3), as last amended
9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the applica-                      by Directive 97/79/EC (4),
tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation (EC) No
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                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
particular Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
                                                                                                       Article 1
(1)     Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 provides for              The following Member States shall issue on 21 April 2000
        the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and           import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as boned
        veal products. However, imports must take place within            meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean and Pacific
        the limits of the quantities specified for each of these          States, in respect of the following quantities and countries of
        exporting non-member countries.                                   origin:
(2)     The applications for import licences submitted between            Germany:
        1 and 10 April 2000, expressed in terms of boned meat,
                                                                          — 150 tonnes originating in Botswana,
        in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, do not
        exceed, in respect of products originating from Bots-             —     79 tonnes originating in Namibia;
(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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United Kingdom:                                                       — Botswana:                                    16 946 tonnes,
                                                                      — Kenya:                                          142 tonnes,
— 140 tonnes originating in Botswana,
                                                                      — Madagascar:                                   7 579 tonnes,
— 700 tonnes originating in Namibia,                                  — Swaziland:                                    3 148 tonnes,
                                                                      — Zimbabwe:                                     7 315 tonnes,
—    50 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
                                                                      — Namibia:                                     10 945 tonnes.
— 405 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe.
                                                                                                Article 3
                                                                      This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
                          Article 2                                   Done at Brussels, 17 April 2000.
                                                                                                    For the Commission
Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to Article 3(2)
of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the first 10 days of                                             Franz FISCHLER
May 2000 for the following quantities of boned beef and veal:                                   Member of the Commission