CELEX: 31997R0134
Language: en
Date: 1997-01-24 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 134/97 of 24 January 1997 on the issue of import licences on 30 January 1997 for sheepmeat and goatmeat products pursuant to GATT-WTO non-country specific tariff quotas for the first quarter of 1997

25. 1 . 97           I EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 24/ 13
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 134/97
                                                          of 24 January 1997
                    on the issue of import licences on 30 January 1997 for sheepmeat and goatmeat
                    products pursuant to GATT-WTO non -country specific tariff quotas for the first
                                                            quarter of 1997
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95, such quantities should be
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                reduced by a single percentage figure in accordance with
 Community,
                                                                      Article 16 (4) (b) of that Regulation ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89                 Whereas all the licence applications may be granted in
 of 25 September 1989 on the common organization of                   cases where the quantities in respect of which licence
 the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last                    applications have been lodged do not exceed the quanti­
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 589/96 (2),                          ties provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1439/95;
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                       Whereas applications relating to products originating in
 1439/95 of 26 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for               the United States of America have been lodged in the
 the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89               Netherlands,
 as regards the import and export of products in the
 sheepmeat and goatmeat sector f), as last amended by
 Regulation (EC) No 2498 /96 (4), and in particular Article           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 16 (4) thereof,
                                                                                               Article 1
 Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 laid down, in Title
 II B, detailed rules, in respect of imports of products
                                                                      The Netherlands shall, on 30 January       1997, issue the
 falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80,
 0104 20 90 and 0204 pursuant to GATT/WTO non­
                                                                      import licences provided for in Title II  B of Regulation
 country specific tariff quotas; whereas provision should be          (EC) No 1439/95 and applied for from      1 to 10 January
                                                                      1997. For products falling within CN       code 0204, the
 made, pursuant to Article 16 (4) of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                      quantities applied for originating in the United States of
 1439/95, for determining the extent to which import                  America, shall be granted in full .
 licences may be issued in connection with applications
 lodged in respect of the first quarter of 1997;
                                                                                               Article 2
 Whereas, in cases where the quantities in respect of
 which licence applications have been lodged exceed the               This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 January
 quantities which may be imported pursuant to Article 15              1997.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States .
                    Done at Brussels, 24 January 1997.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                  Franz FISCHLER
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No  L 289,   7. 10 . 1989 , p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 206,   16. 8 . 1996, p. 25.
(3) OJ  No  L 143,   27. 6. 1995, p. 7.
(4) OJ  No  L 338 ,  28 . 12. 1996, p. 53.