CELEX: 31998R0197
Language: en
Date: 1998-01-26 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 197/98 of 26 January 1998 determining the percentage of quantities which may be allowed in respect of import licence applications lodged in January 1998 under tariff quotas for beef and veal provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1939/97 for the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania

L 20/24               EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                27. 1. 98
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 197/98
                                                     of 26 January 1998
                  determining the percentage of quantities which may be allowed in respect of
                  import licence applications lodged in January 1998 under tariff quotas for beef
                  and veal provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1939/97 for the Republic of Poland,
                  the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                        Article 1
Community,
                                                                   1. The following percentages of quantities covered by
                                                                   import licence applications submitted in respect of the
                                                                   period 1 January to 31 March 1998 under the quotas
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1939/               referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1939/97 may be
97 of 3 October 1997, laying down for the period 1 July            allowed:
1997 to 30 June 1998, rules for the application of the
tariff quotas for beef and veal provided for by Council
                                                                   (a) 100 % of quantities covered by applications in
Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 for the Republic of Poland,
                                                                       respect of products falling within CN codes 0201 and
the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak
                                                                       0202 originating in Hungary, the Czech Republic,
Republic, the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania and
                                                                       Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria;
amending Regulations (EC) No 2512/96 and (EC) No
1441/97 (1), and in particular Article 3 (4) thereof,
                                                                   (b) 87,327 % of quantities covered by applications in
                                                                       respect of products falling within CN codes 0201,
                                                                       0202, 1602 50 31 and 1602 50 39 originating in
                                                                       Poland.
Whereas Article 1 (1) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No
1939/97 fixes the quantities of fresh, chilled or frozen
beef and veal originating in Poland, Hungary, the Czech            2. The quantities available for the period referred to in
Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, and, in the              Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1939/97 running
case of Poland, the equivalent of the quantity of meat             from 1 April to 30 June 1998 shall amount to:
expressed as weight of processed products which may be
imported on special terms in respect of the period 1               (a) beef and veal falling within CN codes 0201 and 0202:
January to 31 March 1998; whereas the quantities of
fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal originating in
                                                                        5 785,0 tonnes for meat originating in Hungary,
Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and
Bulgaria, covered by import licence applications                        2 710,0 tonnes for meat originating in the Czech
submitted are such that applications may be accepted in                    Republic,
full; whereas, however, quantities covered by applications
in respect of beef and veal originating in Poland and                   2 020,0 tonnes for meat originating in Slovakia,
processed products must be reduced proportionately in                   310,0 tonnes for meat originating in Bulgaria,
accordance with Article 3 (4) of that Regulation;
                                                                        1 973,6 tonnes for meat originating in Romania;
                                                                   (b) 4 233,1 tonnes for beef and veal falling within CN
                                                                       codes 0201 and 0202 originating in Poland, or 1 978,1
Whereas Article 1 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1939/97
                                                                       tonnes for processed products falling within CN
states that if for the quota period the quantities for which
                                                                       codes 1602 50 31 and 1602 50 39 originating in
applications for import licences have been submitted for
                                                                       Poland.
the first or the second period specified in paragraph 3 of
the Article are less than the quantities available, the
remaining quantities are to be added to the quantities in
respect of the second period, the quantities available for
the six countries concerned for the third period running                                     Article 2
from 1 April to 30 June 1998 should accordingly be
determined,
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 January
(1) OJ L 272, 4. 10. 1997, p. 23.                                  1998.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 26 January 1998.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission