CELEX: 32000D0097
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 January 2000 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia (notified under document number C(2000) 117)

L 28/54                EN                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                    3. 2. 2000
                                                          COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 18 January 2000
               on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya,
                                           Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                               (notified under document number C(2000) 117)
                                                                 (2000/97/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                                  Article 1
Community,
                                                                           The following Member States shall issue on 21 January 2000
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of 20                  import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as boned
July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-             meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean and Pacific
ucts and goods resulting from the processing of agricultural               States, in respect of the following quantities and countries of
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific                 origin:
States (ACP States) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 715/                 Germany:
90 (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,                              — 370 tonnes originating in Botswana,
                                                                           — 245 tonnes originating in Namibia.
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 of
9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the applica-               United Kingdom:
tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation (EC) No             — 280 tonnes originating in Botswana,
1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-               — 236 tonnes originating in Namibia,
ucts and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul-
                                                                           — 55 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
tural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
States and repealing Regulation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in                 — 780 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe.
particular Article 4 thereof,
                                                                                                       Article 2
(1)     Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98
        provides for the possibility of issuing import licences for        Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to Article 3(2)
        beef and veal products; whereas, however, imports must             of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the first 10 days of
        take place within the limits of the quantities specified for       February 2000 for the following quantities of boned beef and
        each of these exporting non-member countries;                      veal:
                                                                           — Botswana:                                      18 266 tonnes,
(2)     Whereas the applications for import licences submitted             — Kenya:                                            142 tonnes,
        between 1 and 10 January 2000, expressed in terms of               — Madagascar:                                     7 579 tonnes,
        boned meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
                                                                           — Swaziland:                                      3 308 tonnes,
        1918/98, do not exceed, in respect of products origin-
        ating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland,                   — Zimbabwe:                                       8 320 tonnes,
        Zimbabwe and Namibia, the quantities available from                — Namibia:                                       12 519 tonnes.
        those States; whereas it is therefore possible to issue
        import licences in respect of the quantities applied for;
                                                                                                       Article 3
(3)     Whereas the quantities in respect of which licences may
        be applied for from 1 February 2000 should be fixed                This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
        within the scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes;
(4)     Whereas this Decision is without prejudice to Council              Done at Brussels, 18 January 2000.
        Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health
        and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of                                             For the Commission
        bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat
                                                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
        or meat products from third countries (3), as last
        amended by Directive 97/79/EC (4),                                                              Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  215, 1.8.1998, p. 12.
(2) OJ L  250, 10.9.1998, p. 16.
(3) OJ L  302, 31.12.1972, p. 28.
(4) OJ L  24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.