CELEX: 31999R2638
Language: en
Date: 1999-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2638/1999 of 14 December 1999 concerning applications for import licences for quality common wheat and quality durum wheat under tariff quotas provided for in Regulation (EC) No 778/1999

L 323/10              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                  15. 12. 1999
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2638/1999
                                                        of 14 December 1999
              concerning applications for import licences for quality common wheat and quality durum wheat
                                under tariff quotas provided for in Regulation (EC) No 778/1999
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             allocated is 50 000 tonnes; whereas the appropriate percentage
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   of reduction for import licence applications submitted between
Community,                                                              24 October and 8 December 1999 qualifying for the condi-
                                                                        tions provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 must there-
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of 18
                                                                        fore be set,
June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions set out in
Schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the conclusion of the
GATT XXIV:6 negotiations (1), and in particular Article 1               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 778/1999 of 15
                                                                                                    Article 1
April 1999 opening and providing for the administration of
tariff quotas for 300 000 tonnes of quality wheat and 50 000            Applications for import licences for quality common wheat
tonnes of durum wheat and repealing Regulations (EC) No                 qualifying for the conditions provided for in Regulation (EC)
529/97 and (EC) No 2228/96 (2), lays down special provisions            No 1095/96 submitted between 24 October and 8 December
on the organisation of imports under the quota opened by                1999 and notified to the Commission shall be accepted for the
Regulation (EC) No 1095/96; whereas Article 3(2) of Regula-             tonnages indicated therein multiplied by a coefficient of 0,329.
tion (EC) No 778/1999 provides that the Commission is to fix            Applications not notified to the Commission shall be refused.
a uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if applications
for import licences exceed the quantities that may be imported;                                     Article 2
whereas applications for licences for quality common wheat
submitted between 24 October and 8 December 1999 relate to              Applications for import licences for quality durum wheat quali-
304 270 tonnes of quality wheat; whereas the maximum                    fying for the conditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No
quantity to be allocated is 100 000 tonnes; whereas the appro-          1095/96 submitted between 24 October and 8 December
priate percentage of reduction for import licence applications          1999 and notified to the Commission shall be accepted for the
submitted between 24 October and 8 December 1999 quali-                 tonnages indicated therein multiplied by a coefficient of 0,343.
fying for the conditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No             Applications not notified to the Commission shall be refused.
1095/96 must therefore be set; whereas applications for
licences for quality durum wheat submitted between 24                                               Article 3
October and 8 December 1999 relate to 145 845 tonnes of
quality durum wheat; whereas the maximum quantity to be                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 December 1999.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 14 December 1999.
                                                                                     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.