CELEX: 32000R1971
Language: en
Date: 2000-09-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1971/2000 of 18 September 2000 on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP bananas for the fourth quarter of 2000 and on the submission of new applications

L 235/10               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                       19.9.2000
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1971/2000
                                                          of 18 September 2000
               on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP
                     bananas for the fourth quarter of 2000 and on the submission of new applications
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       account of the applications accepted at the end of the
                                                                                  application period and of the available quantities.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                (6)     This Regulation should apply immediately to permit
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13                         licences to be issued as quickly as possible.
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in                 (7)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1257/                          accordance with the opinion of the Management
1999 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,                                   Committee for Bananas,
Whereas:
(1)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 (3), as last
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 1632/2000 (4), lays                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        down detailed rules for the implementation of Regula-
        tion (EEC) No 404/93 as regards imports of bananas                                             Article 1
        into the Community.
(2)     Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 lays down                Import licences for bananas shall be issued under the tariff
        that where, for a given quarter and for any one or more           quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas referred to
        of the origins listed in Annex I, the quantities covered by       in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 for the fourth
        import licence applications appreciably exceed any                quarter of 2000 for:
        indicative quantities fixed in accordance with Article 14          (a) the quantity indicated in the licence application, multiplied
        or exceed the quantity available, a percentage reduction               by reduction coefficients of 0,4412, 0,6327, 0,7657,
        to be applied to applications must be set.                             0,8575 and 0,5024 for applications indicating the origins
(3)     The quantities available for import under the tariff                   ‘Colombia’, ‘Costa Rica’, ‘Ecuador’, ‘Panama’ and ‘Other’
        quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas are                 respectively;
        laid down for the fourth quarter of 2000 by Commis-               (b) the quantity indicated in the licence application for applica-
        sion Regulation (EC) No 1637/2000 (5).                                 tions indicating origins other than those referred to in (a).
(4)     In the case of the quantities covered by licence applica-
        tions that are either less than or do not exceed the                                           Article 2
        available quantities fixed for the given quarter, import
        licences are issued for the quantities applied for.               The quantities for which licence applications may still be
        However, for certain origins, the quantities applied for          submitted in respect of the fourth quarter of 2000 are laid
        exceed the available quantities. A percentage reduction           down in the Annex.
        should therefore be set to be applied to each licence
        application for the origin or origins involved.
                                                                                                       Article 3
(5)     The maximum quantity for which licence applications
        may still be submitted should be set, in accordance with          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
        Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98, taking                  tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 18 September 2000.
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L  160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(3) OJ L  293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(4) OJ L  187, 26.7.2000, p. 27.
(5) OJ L  187, 26.7.2000, p. 36.
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                                            ANNEX
                                                                            (tonnes)
                                                       Quantities available
                                                      for new applications
             Traditional ACP bananas                     329 787,675