CELEX: 31975R0780
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 780/75 of the Commission of 25 March 1975 concerning the arrangements for the importation, during the period of application of protective measures, of products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar and Swaziland

No L 77/34                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               26 . 3 . 75
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 780/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 25 March 1975
                concerning the arrangements for the importation , during the period of applica­
                tion of protective measures, of products originating in Botswana, Kenya,
                                                     Madagascar and Swaziland
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       tations of beef and veal into the Community from
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         each of the countries covered during the years 1969 to
                                                                      1974 ; whereas it will be possible for the balance of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                these annual quantities to be covered by the measures
 Economic Community ;                                                 which the Community has adopted or will adopt with
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         a view to the gradual restoration of a certain flow of
 805/68 ( x) of 27 June 1968 on the common organiza­                  trade with third countries in respect of beef and veal ;
 tion of the market in beef and veal , as last amended
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1855/74 (2), and in particular                Whereas detailed rules in respect of import licences
 Article 21 (2) thereof ;                                             were laid down by Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      193/75 (5) of 17 January 1975 and by Commission
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No                               Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 (6) of 23 December
 2668/74 (3) of 21 October 1974 suspended the issue of                1970, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 import licences and advance fixing certificates, given               558/75 (7),
 that the prices of beef and veal on representative
 Community markets are markedly lower than the
 intervention price ; whereas the list of products in                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 respect of which importation is suspended was
 extended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 610/75 (4) of 7 March 1975 on protective measures for                                         Article 1
 certain beef and veal products falling within
 subheading 16.02 B III b) 1 of the Common Customs                    Licences for the importation of beef and veal products
 Tariff ;                                                             originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar and Swazi­
                                                                      land shall be issued as provided in this Regulation for
 Whereas the Commission is following the situation                    the following maximum quantities, expressed in
 on the market in beef and veal closely ; whereas it has              metric tons of boned meat :
 noted that the market is still in danger of suffering, as
 a result of imports, serious disturbances which could
 jeopardize the objectives of Article 39 of the Treaty ;                                              Until     From 1 September
                                                                                                                       to
                                                                                                 31 August 1975 31 December 1975
Whereas at Lome the Community concluded a
 convention with the African, Caribbean and Pacific
                                                                      Botswana                       7 567           3 282
 States ; whereas four of them — Botswana, Kenya,
 Madagascar and Swaziland — have traditionally                        Kenya                             58               25
 exported beef and veal to the Community ; whereas                   Madagascar                      3 031           1 315
 these exports are essential to their economic develop­              Swaziland                       1 344             583
 ment ;
Whereas exports from those countries should there­
fore be afforded special treatment, without thereby
allowing the Community market to be disturbed ;                       100 kilogrammes of boned meat shall be equal to 130
whereas that objective may be attained by fixing the                 kilogrammes of unboned meat.
total quantity of meat per country which may be
imported and by making importation subject to the
production of an import licence, to be issued only                                             Article 2
after verification of the quantities in respect of which
licences are applied for, the total quantities fixed per              1.    Applications for import licences may be lodged
country being, if necessary, subject to allocation ;                 with the competent agencies of the Member States :
Whereas these arrangements are sufficient to cover                   — only during the first five working days following
the greater part of the more substantial annual impor­                    the date of entry into force of this Regulation for
                                                                          the period ending 31 August 1975,
(') OJ  No  L  148 , 28 .  6. 1968 , p. 24.
(2) OJ  No  L  195, 18 .   7. 1974, p. 14.                           (5) OJ No L 25, 31 . 1 . 1975, p. 10.
(3) OJ  No  L  285, 22.    10. 1974, p. 22.                          (6 OJ No L 283 , 29 . 12 . 1970, p . 15 .
(4) OJ  No  L  63, 8 . 3 . 1975, p. 37.                              (7) OJ No L 59, 5. 3 . 1975, p. 16.
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— only during the first 10 days of September 1975              5.     Licences shall be issued :
    for the period ending 31 December 1975.                   — on the first occasion, on the 1 0th working day
The country of origin shall be entered in Section 14               following the date of entry into force of this Regu­
of the application for a licence and of the licence. The           lation ,
licence shall carry with it an obligation to import           — on subsequent occasions, on the 21st day
from that country.                                                 following the first day of the period during which
                                                                   applications are lodged.
2. On the first working day following expiry of the
time limit for the lodging of applications, Member
States shall inform the Commission by telex of the                                       Article 3
total quantity in respect of which applications as speci­
fied in paragraph 1 have been lodged, broken down              Importation shall be authorized only if the origin of
by relevant third country. The Commission shall, for           the products in question has been certified by the
each of the third countries concerned, decide to what          competent authorities of the exporting country :
extent licences may be granted.                               (a) by documentary evidence, issued as provided in
                                                                   the Protocol on origin to the Lome convention on
If the quantities in respect of which licences for                 or after the date on which that convention is put
products originating in a given country have been                  into effect, in the case of products originating in
applied for exceed the quantity fixed for that country             the third countries specified in (b) ;
in Article 1 , the Commission shall determine a single
percentage by which the quantities requested are to be        (b) before the date referred to in (a), by :
reduced .                                                          (aa) the AYl movement certificate provided for in
                                                                         Regulation (EEC) No 1251 /71 ('), in the case
3 . If the total quantity in respect of which applica­                   of products originating in Madagascar,
tions relating to a relevant third country have been
received is less than the quantity fixed for that                  (bb) the AAl movement certificate provided for in
country in Article 1 , the Commission shall declare                      Regulation (EEC) No 1289 /71 (2), in the case
what quantity remains over. In such case, further appli­                 of products originating in Kenya,
cations for licences may be lodged during the first ten            (cc) a certificate of origin endorsed by the customs
days :                                                                   authorities, in the case of products originating
— of May 1975 for the period ending 31 August                            in Botswana and Swaziland .
    1975,
— of October 1975 for the . period ending 31                                             Article 4
    December 1975 .
                                                               Subject to the provisions of Article 18 of Regulation
The provisions contained in the preceding paragraphs          (EEC) No 193/70 , the security shall be released imme­
shall apply.                                                  diately in respect of quantities for which no import
                                                               licence has been issued .
4.    The period of validity' of the import licences
shall end on :
                                                                                         Article 5
— 31 August 1975 for those issued before that date,
— 31     December       1975 for those  issued  after 31      This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 March
    August 1975.                                               1975 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 25 March 1975 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                              (•) OJ No L 135, 21 . 6. 1971 , p. 1 .
                                                              (2) OJ No L 141 , 27. 6. 1971 , p. 1 .