CELEX: 31998D0530
Language: en
Date: 1998-08-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 19 August 1998 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia (notified under document number C(1998) 2497)

L 237/24              EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   25. 8. 98
                                                  COMMISSION
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 19 August 1998
                  on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana,
                                 Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                      (notified under document number C(1998) 2497)
                                                          (98/530/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 589/96 provides
                                                                   for the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and
                                                                   veal products; whereas, however, imports must take place
                                                                   within the limits of the quantities specified for each of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              these exporting non-member countries;
Community,
                                                                   Whereas the applications for import licences submitted
                                                                   between 1 and 10 August 1998, expressed in terms of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of             deboned meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
20 July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricul-            589/96, do not exceed, in respect of products originating
tural products and goods resulting from the processing of          from Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
agricultural products originating in the African, Carib-           and Namibia, the quantities available from those States;
bean and Pacific States (ACP States) and repealing Regula-         whereas it is therefore possible to issue import licences in
tion (EEC) No 715/90 (1), and in particular Article 30             respect of the quantities applied for;
thereof,
                                                                   Whereas the quantities in respect of which licences may
                                                                   be applied for from 1 September 1998 should be fixed
                                                                   within the scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes;
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/
96 of 2 April 1996 laying down detailed rules for the
application in the beef and veal sector of Council Regula-         Whereas this Decision is without prejudice to Council
tion (EEC) No 715/90 on the arrangements applicable to             Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health
agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the         and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of
processing of agricultural products originating in the             bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat
African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas           or meat products from third countries (5), as last amended
countries and territories (2), as amended by Regulation            by Directive 97/79/EC (6),
(EC) No 260/98 (3), and in particular Article 4 thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 consolidates the                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Community’s concessions vis-à-vis the ACP States
covered by the fourth ACP-EC Convention and its mid-
term review; whereas, however, those concessions do not
alter the concessions governed by Decision No 6/95 of                                         Article 1
the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 20 December 1995
on the transitional measures to be applied from 1 January
1996 (4); whereas Regulation (EC) No 589/96 therefore              The following Member States shall issue on 21 August
continues to apply;                                                1998 import licences for beef and veal products,
                                                                   expressed as deboned meat, originating in certain African,
(1)  OJ L 215, 1. 8. 1998, p. 12.
(2)  OJ L 84, 3. 4. 1996, p. 22.
(3)  OJ L 25, 31. 1. 1998, p. 42.                                  (5) OJ L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 28.
( 4) OJ L 327, 30. 12. 1995, p. 32.                                (6) OJ L 24, 30. 1. 1998, p. 31.
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Caribbean and Pacific States, in respect of the following         Botswana:             9 571,000 tonnes,
quantities and countries of origin:                               Kenya:                  142,000 tonnes,
Germany                                                           Madagascar:           7 564,000 tonnes,
 497,000 tonnes originating in Namibia,                          Swaziland:            3 244,000 tonnes,
                                                                  Zimbabwe:             4 676,000 tonnes,
United Kingdom
                                                                  Namibia:              7 450,000 tonnes.
   400,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
   25,000 tonnes originating in Swaziland,                                           Article 3
   820,000 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe,
                                                                This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
   500,000 tonnes originating in Namibia.
                         Article 2                              Done at Brussels, 19 August 1998.
Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to                                      For the Commission
Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 589/96, during the first
                                                                                          Karel VAN MIERT
10 days of September 1998 for the following quantities of
deboned beef and veal:                                                              Member of the Commission