CELEX: 31999D0418
Language: en
Date: 1999-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 June 1999 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia (notified under document number C(1999) 1658)

L 159/58             EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              25. 6. 1999
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 17 June 1999
                 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana,
                                Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                      (notified under document number C(1999) 1658)
                                                         (1999/418/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               fixed within the scope of the total quantity of
                                                                          52 100 tonnes;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              (4)    Whereas this Decision is without prejudice to
Community,                                                                Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December
                                                                          1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems
                                                                          on importation of bovine, ovine and caprine
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of                    animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products
20 July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricul-                   from third countries (3), as last amended by
tural products and goods resulting from the processing of                 Directive 97/79/EC (4),
agricultural products originating in the African, Carib-
bean and Pacific States (ACP States) and repealing Regula-
tion (EEC) No 715/90 (1), and in particular Article 30
thereof,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/
98 of 9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the                                     Article 1
application in the beef and veal sector of Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to
                                                                   The following Member States shall issue on 21 June 1999
agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the
                                                                   import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as
processing of agricultural products originating in the
                                                                   deboned meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean
African, Caribbean and Pacific States and repealing Regu-
                                                                   and Pacific States, in respect of the following quantities
lation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in particular Article 4
                                                                   and countries of origin:
thereof,
                                                                   Germany
(1)    Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98              1 000,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
       provides for the possibility of issuing import
       licences for beef and veal products; whereas,                    150,000 tonnes originating in Namibia;
       however, imports must take place within the limits
       of the quantities specified for each of these               United Kingdom
       exporting non-member countries;
                                                                    1 150,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
                                                                        450,000 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe,
(2)    Whereas the applications for import licences                     300,000 tonnes originating in Namibia,
       submitted between 1 and 10 June 1999, expressed
                                                                         30,000 tonnes originating in Swaziland;
       in terms of deboned meat, in accordance with
       Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, do not exceed, in               Belgium
       respect of products originating in Botswana, Kenya,
       Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia,                      13,000 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe
       the quantities available from those States; whereas
       it is therefore possible to issue import licences in
       respect of the quantities applied for;
                                                                                              Article 2
(3)    Whereas the quantities in respect of which licences         Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to
       may be applied for from 1 July 1999 should be               Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the
(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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first 10 days of July 1999 for the following quantities of                              Article 3
deboned beef and veal:
                                                                  This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Botswana:               12 281,000  tonnes,
Kenya:                     142,000   tonnes,                      Done at Brussels, 17 June 1999.
Madagascar:              7 579,000  tonnes,
Swaziland:               3 183,000  tonnes,                                               For the Commission
Zimbabwe:                5 950,000  tonnes,                                                 Franz FISCHLER
Namibia:                 8 420,000  tonnes.                                           Member of the Commission