CELEX: 31996R1456
Language: en
Date: 1996-07-25
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1456/96 of 25 July 1996 determining the extent to which applications lodged in July 1996 for import licences for certain pigmeat sector products under the regime provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 opening and providing for the administration of certain Community tariff quotas for pigmeat and certain other agricultural products can be accepted

No L 187 / 10     [ EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               26. 7. 96
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1456/96
                                                       of 25 July 1996
                 determining the extent to which applications lodged in July 1996 for import
                 licences for certain pigmeat sector products under the regime provided for by
                  Council Regulation (EC) No 774/94 opening and providing for the
                 administration of certain Community tariff quotas for pigmeat and certain other
                                          agricultural products can be accepted
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,                                                                               Article 1
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC)
 No 1432/94 of 22 June 1994 laying down detailed rules           1 . Applications for import licences for the period
 for the application in the pigmeat sector of the import         1 July to 30 September 1996 submitted under Regulation
 arrangements provided for in Council Regulation (EC)            (EC) No 1432/94 shall be met as referred to in Annex I.
 No 774/94 opening and providing for the administration
 of certain Community tariff quotas for pigmeat and              2. During the first 10 days of the period 1 October to
 certain other agricultural products (! ), as amended by         31 December 1996 applications may be lodged pursuant
 Regulation (EC) No 1593/95 (2), and in particular Article 4     to Regulation (EC) No 1432/94 for import licences for a
 (4) thereof,                                                    total quantity as referred to in Annex II .
 Whereas the applications for import licences lodged for         3 . Licences may only be used for products which
 the third quarter of 1996 are greater than the quantities       comply with all veterinary rules currently in force in the
 available and must therefore be reduced by a fixed              Community.
 percentage to ensure a fair distribution ;
 Whereas it is appropriate to draw the attention of opera­
 tors to the fact that licences may only be used for                                      Article 2
 products which comply with all veterinary rules currently
 in force in the Community,                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 July 1996.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 25 July 1996.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            Franz FISCHLER
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 156, 23. 6. 1994, p. 14.
 2 OJ No L 150 , 1 . 7. 1995, p. 94.
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                                ANNEX I
                                      Percentage of acceptance
                                    of import licences submitted
              Group No
                                            for the period
                                   1 July to 30 September 1996
                  1                                72
                                ANNEX II
                                                                 (tonnes)
                                       Total quantity available
              Group No                      for the period
                                 1 October to 31 December 1996
                  1                              1 750