CELEX: 32000R1266
Language: en
Date: 2000-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1266/2000 of 16 June 2000 on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas for the third quarter of 2000 and on the submission of new applications

17.6.2000              EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 144/9
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1266/2000
                                                             of 16 June 2000
                on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and the quantity of traditional
                   ACP bananas for the third quarter of 2000 and on the submission of new applications
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               (5)     The maximum quantity for which licence applications
                                                                                  may still be submitted in accordance with Article 18 of
                                                                                  Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 should be set, taking
                                                                                  account of the applications accepted at the end of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             application period and of the available quantities.
Community,
                                                                          (6)     This Regulation should apply immediately to permit
                                                                                  licences to be issued as quickly as possible.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in
bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1257/                  (7)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
1999 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,                                   accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                  Committee for Bananas,
Whereas:
(1)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 (3), as                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 756/1999 (4), lays
        down detailed rules for the implementation of Regula-
        tion (EEC) No 404/93 regarding imports of bananas into
        the Community.
                                                                                                       Article 1
(2)     Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 lays down                Import licences for bananas shall be issued under the tariff
        that where, in the case of a given quarter and for any            quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas referred to
        one or more of the origins listed in Annex I, the quant-          in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 for the third
        ities applied for appreciably exceed any indicative               quarter of 2000 for:
        quantity fixed under Article 14 or exceed the quantities
        available, a percentage reduction to be applied to the             (a) the quantity indicated in the licence application multiplied
        amounts requested shall be fixed.                                      by reduction coefficients of 0,6136, 0,7754, 08492 and
                                                                               0,5790, for applications indicating origins ‘Colombia’,
                                                                               ‘Costa Rica’, ‘Ecuador’ and ‘Other’ respectively;
(3)     The indicative quantities available for import under the          (b) the quantity indicated in the licence application for applica-
        tariff quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas              tions indicating origins other than those referred to in (a).
        are laid down for the third quarter of 2000 by Commis-
        sion Regulation (EC) No 1077/2000 (5).
                                                                                                       Article 2
(4)     In the case of the quantities covered by licence applica-
        tions that are either less than, or do not appreciably
        exceed the indicative quantities fixed for the given              The quantities for which licence applications may still be
        quarter, import licences are issued for the quantities            lodged in respect of the third quarter of 2000 are laid down in
        applied for. However, for certain origins, the quantities         the Annex.
        applied for appreciably exceed the indicative quantities.
        A reduction percentage should therefore be set to be
        applied to each licence application for the origin or
        origins involved.
                                                                                                       Article 3
(1) OJ L  47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L  160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(3) OJ L  293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(4) OJ L  98, 13.4.1999, p. 10.                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
(5) OJ L  121, 23.5.2000, p. 4.                                           tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
         Done at Brussels, 16 June 2000.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                  Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                       ANNEX
                                                                                             (tonnes)
                                                           Quantities available for new applications
                        Panama                                           28 421,515
                        Traditional ACP bananas                         176 390,064