CELEX: 31997R0454
Language: en
Date: 1997-03-10 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 454/97 of 10 March 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 Council Regulation (EC) No 304/97

11 . 3 . 97       I EN I                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 69/ 5
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 454/97
                                                       of 10 March 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 Council Regulation (EC) No 304/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        licences for rice falling within CN code 1006 originating
                                                                   in the overseas countries and territories, under the safe­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             guard measures introduced by Regulation (EC) No
Community,                                                         21 /97 (3), the submission of import licence applications
                                                                   for rice and broken rice originating in 'Montserrat' and
Having regard to Council Decision 91 /482/EEC of 25                'other OCTs' is suspended until 30 April since the quanti­
July 1991 on the association of the overseas countries and         ties laid down under the tariff quota opened by Regula­
territories with the European Economic Community ('),              tion (EC) No 304/97 are exhausted,
and in particular Article 109 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 304/97 of
 17 February 1997 introducing safeguard measures in                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
respect of imports of rice originating in the overseas
countries and territories (2), and in particular Article 4 (3)
thereof,                                                                                     Article 1
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 304/97 introduces safeguard             Import licences for rice and broken rice falling within
measures in respect of imports of rice originating in the          CN code 1006 submitted in accordance with the arrange­
overseas countries and territories, hereinafter referred to as     ments provided for in Regulation (EC) No 304/97 shall be
OCTs; whereas those measures provide for exemption                 issued for the quantities indicated in the applications
from customs duties on importation pursuant to a tariff            reduced by the following percentage :
quota and allocation thereof to various specified origins;
whereas they provide in particular for the restriction of          — 50,52861 % for applications indicating the origin
the number of licence applications made daily by each                   'Montserrat or the Turks and Caicos Islands' provided
importer for each origin; whereas, to ensure that the tariff            for in the second indent of Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) of that
quota quantity is not exceeded, Article 4 (3) of the afore­             Regulation submitted on 28 February 1997.
mentioned Regulation provides that, if the quantities
exceed the quantities available for one or more of the
quotas specified, the Commission is to set a single                                          Article 2
percentage reduction to be applied to the quantities for
which applications were lodged on the day on which the             For import licence applications for rice and broken rice
quotas were exceeded;                                              falling within CN code 1006 lodged from 1 March 1997
                                                                   for the origin 'Montserrat or the Turks and Caicos Islands'
Whereas the quantities applied for on 28 February 1997             provided for in the second indent of Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) of
exceed the quantities available for the origins 'Montserrat        Regulation (EC) No 304/97 no import licence shall be
or the Turks and Caicos Islands'; whereas, as a result,            issued under the tariff quota.
Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 304/97 should be
applied to the applications submitted on the afore­
mentioned date for the origins indicated, and applications                                   Article 3
submitted subsequently — and pending for those origins
— should be rejected;
                                                                   Submission of import licence applications for rice and
                                                                   broken rice falling within CN code 1006 of the origin
Whereas the quantities available for the origins 'Mont­            'Montserrat or the Turks and Caicos Islands' provided for
serrat or the Turks and Caicos Islands' for importation            in the second indent of Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EC)
pursuant to the tariff quota opened by Regulation (EC)             No 304/97 shall be suspended until 30 April 1997 .
No 304/97 are exhausted for the period 1 January to 30
April 1997; whereas, as a result, the submission of import
licence applications for those origins pursuant to that                                      Article 4
Regulation should be suspended;
Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
 115/97 of 22 January 1997 on the issue of import                  publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                    Communities.
(■) OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
h) OJ No L 51 , 21 . 2. 1997, p. 1 .                               0 OJ No L 20, 23. 1 . 1997, p. 30 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 10 March 1997.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                             Member of the Commission