CELEX: 32000R0599
Language: en
Date: 2000-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 599/2000 of 17 March 2000 concerning applications for import licences for durum wheat under tariff quotas provided for in Regulation (EC) No 778/1999

18.3.2000             EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 71/21
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 599/2000
                                                          of 17 March 2000
              concerning applications for import licences for durum wheat under tariff quotas provided for in
                                                    Regulation (EC) No 778/1999
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             tonnes of quality durum wheat. The maximum quantity to be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   allocated is 50 000 tonnes. The appropriate percentage of
Community,                                                              reduction for import licence applications submitted between
                                                                        29 January and 14 March 2000 qualifying for the conditions
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of 18               provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 must therefore be
June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions set out in           set,
Schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the conclusion of the
GATT XXIV:6 negotiations (1), and in particular Article 1
thereof,                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
Commission Regulation (EC) No 778/1999 of 15 April 1999                                             Article 1
opening and providing for the administration of tariff quotas           Applications for import licences for durum wheat qualifying
for 300 000 tonnes of quality wheat and 50 000 tonnes of                for the conditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1095/96
durum wheat and repealing Regulations (EC) No 529/97 and                submitted between 29 January and 14 March 2000 and noti-
(EC) No 2228/96 (2), lays down special provisions on the                fied to the Commission shall be accepted for the tonnages
organisation of imports under the quota. Article 3(2) of Regu-          indicated therein multiplied by a coefficient of 0,314. Applica-
lation (EC) No 778/1999 provides that the Commission is to              tions not notified to the Commission shall be refused.
fix a uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if applica-
tions for import licences exceed the quantities that may be                                         Article 2
imported. Applications for licences for durum wheat submitted
between 29 January and 14 March 2000 relate to 159 034                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 march 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 17 March 2000.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 146, 20.6.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 101, 16.4.1999, p. 36.