CELEX: 31999R0747
Language: en
Date: 1999-04-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 747/1999 of 9 April 1999 on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal

10. 4. 1999           EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 96/7
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 747/1999
                                                         of 9 April 1999
                  on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and
                                                               veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas it should be recalled that licences issued
                                                                    pursuant to this Regulation will, throughout the period of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               validity, be open for use only in so far as provisions on
Community,                                                          health protection in force permit,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 936/
97 of 27 May 1997 opening and providing for the admin-              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
istration of tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and
frozen beef and for frozen buffalo meat (1), as last                                        Article 1
amended by Regulation (EC) No 134/1999 (2),
                                                                    1.    All applications for import licences from 1 to 5
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 936/97 provides in Articles              April 1999 for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef
4 and 5 the conditions for applications and for the issue           and veal as referred to in Article 2(f) of Regulation (EC)
of import licences for meat referred to in Article 2(f);            No 936/97 shall be granted in full.
                                                                    2.    Applications for licences may be submitted, in
Whereas Article 2(f) of Regulation (EC) No 936/97 fixes             accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 936/97,
the amount of high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef            during the first five days of May 1999 for 3 521,290 t.
and veal originating in and imported from the United
States of America and Canada which may be imported on                                       Article 2
special terms for the period 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999
at 11 500 t;                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 April 1999.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 9 April 1999.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 137, 28.5.1997, p. 10.
(2) OJ L 17, 22.1.1999, p. 22.