CELEX: 31997R2557
Language: en
Date: 1997-12-18 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2557/97 of 18 December 1997 on applications for import licences for rice originating in the United States and submitted under Regulation (EC) No 2382/97

19 . 12. 97        I EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 L 349 /49
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2557/97
                                                     of 18 December 1997
                   on applications for import licences for rice originating in the United States and
                                      submitted under Regulation (EC) No 2382/97
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     2382/97, as compared with the quantities available, has
                                                                  shown that licences can be issued subject to application of
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           a single percentage reduction,
  Community,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No
  2382/97 of 28 November 1997 opening tariff quotas for                                     Article 1
  one year for imports of rice originating in the United
 States of America as provided for in Council Regulation          Applications for import licences for the quotas referred to
 (EC) No 1 522/96 ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof,   in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2382/97 lodged during
                                                                  the first five working days following the date of entry into
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EC) No         force of that Regulation and notified to the Commission
 2382/97, the Commission is to decide, within ten days of         may be accepted subject to application to the quantities
 the closing date for notification by the Member States, to       applied for of a single percentage reduction of 93,1945 %
 what extent applications submitted may be accepted and           as regards the quota referred to in Article 1 (a) and of
 fix the quantities available under the following tranche;        97,7002 % for the quota referred to in Article 1 (b).
                                                                                           Article 2
 Whereas an examination of the quantities covered by
 applications lodged in the first five working days fol­          This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 December
 lowing the date of entry into force of Regulation (EC) No        1997.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 18 December 1997.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ L 329 , 29. 11 . 1997, p. 36.