CELEX: 31997R0115
Language: en
Date: 1997-01-22 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 115/97 of 22 January 1997 on the issue of import licences for rice falling within CN code 1006 originating in the overseas countries and territories, under the safeguard measures introduced by Regulation (EC) No 21/97

No L 20/30        PEN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                   23 . 1 . 97
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 115/97
                                                         of 22 January 1997
                   on the issue of import licences for rice falling within CN code 1006 originating
                   in the overseas countries and territories, under the safeguard measures
                                           introduced by Regulation (EC) No 21 /97
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         quota opened by Regulation (EC) No 21 /97 are exhausted
                                                                       for the period 1 January to 30 April 1997; whereas, as a
                                                                       result, the submission of import licence applications for
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               those origins under that Regulation should be suspended,
   Community,
   Having regard to Council Decision 91 /482/EEC of 25                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
  July 1991 on the association of the overseas countries and
  territories with the European Economic Community ('),
  and in particular Article 109 thereof,
                                                                                                Article 1
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 21 /97               Import licences for rice and broken rice falling within
  of 8 January 1997 introducing safeguard measures in                 CN code 1006 submitted under the arrangements
  respect of imports of rice originating in the overseas              provided for in Regulation (EC) No 21 /97 shall be issued
  countries and territories (2), and in particular Article 4 (3)      for the quantities indicated in the applications reduced by
  thereof,                                                           the following percentages:
                                                                     — 53,3970 % for applications indicating the origin
 Whereas Regulation (EC) No 21 /97 introduces safeguard                   'Montserrat' lodged on 13 January 1997,
 measures in respect of imports of rice originating in the           — 56,7434 % for applications indicating the origin
 overseas countries and territories, hereinafter referred to as           'other OCTs' lodged on 9 January 1997.
 OCTs; whereas those measures provide for exemption
 from customs duties on importation under a tariff quota
 and allocation thereof to various specified origins; whereas
 they provide in particular for the restriction of the                                         Article 2
 number of licence applications made daily by each
 importer for each origin; whereas, to ensure that the tariff        For import licence applications for rice and broken rice
 quota quantity is not exceeded, Article 4 (3) of the above­         falling within CN code 1006 lodged from :
 mentioned Regulation provides that, if the quantities
 exceed the quantities available for one or more of the             — 14 January 1997 for the origin 'Montserrat', and
 quotas specified, the Commission is to set a single
 percentage reduction to be applied to the quantities for           — 10 January 1997 for the origin 'other OCTs',
 which applications were lodged on the day on which the
 quotas were exceeded;                                              no import licence shall be issued under the tariff quota.
Whereas the quantities applied for on 9 and 13 January                                         Article 3
 1997 respectively exceed the quantities available for the
 origins 'other OCTs' and 'Montserrat'; whereas, as a result,       Submission of import licence applications for rice and
Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 21 /97 should be                broken rice falling within CN code 1006 of the origins
applied to the applications submitted on the abovemen­              'Montserrat' and 'other OCTs' under the tariff quota
tioned dates for the origins indicated, and applications            opened by Regulation (EC) No 21 /97 shall be suspended
submitted subsequently — and pending for those origins             until 30 April 1997.
— should be rejected;
                                                                                               Article 4
Whereas the quantities available for the origins other
OCTs' and 'Montserrat' for importation under the tariff
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(') OJ No L 263 , 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .                             publication in the Official Journal of the European
 2 OJ No L 5, 9. 1 . 1997, p. 24.                                   Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 22 January 1997.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission