CELEX: 31996D0638
Language: en
Date: 1996-10-25 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 25 October 1996 on applications for import licences for rice and broken rice submitted in the first five working days of October 1996 under the arrangements provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96

7. 11 . 96           EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 285/23
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                                                     COMMISSION
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 25 October 1996
                    on applications for import licences for rice and broken rice submitted in the
                    first five working days of October 1996 under the arrangements provided for in
                                             Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96
                                                            (96/638/EC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                     Article 1
  Community,
                                                                     Import licences may be issued in respect of licence ap­
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 of             plications for rice submitted under the arrangements
  24 July 1996 opening and providing for the administra­             provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1522/96 in the first
  tion of certain tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken       five working days of October 1996 and notified to the
  rice ('), and in particular Article 5 (2) thereof,                 Commission, subject to the application of a standard
                                                                     percentage reduction to the quantities applied for of
  Whereas, under Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EC) No                 99,244871 % .
  1522/96, the Commission must decide within 10 days of
  the closing date for the submission of licence applications                               Article 2
  the extent to which applications can be granted and must
  fix the available quantities for the following tranche;            This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
 whereas the Commission must notify the Member States
  of its decision as soon as possible;
                                                                     Done at Brussels, 25 October 1996.
 Whereas, in the light of the quantities for which applica­
 tions are submitted during the first five working days of                                    For the Commission
 October 1996 and the quantities available, licences may                                         Franz FISCHLER
 be issued subject to the application of a standard percen­
 tage reduction,                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 190, 31 . 7. 1996, p. 1 .