CELEX: 32000R0138
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 138/2000 of 20 January 2000 determining to what extent applications for import rights lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2684/1999 can be met as regards the tariff quota for certain beef and veal sector products originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

21. 1. 2000            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 16/67
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 138/2000
                                                           of 20 January 2000
               determining to what extent applications for import rights lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No
               2684/1999 can be met as regards the tariff quota for certain beef and veal sector products
                                    originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    under the circumstances and with a view to ensuring an
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          equitable shareout of the available quantities, the quant-
Community,                                                                     ities applied for should be reduced on a proportional
                                                                               basis,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2684/1999
of 17 December 1999 laying down detailed rules for the
application in 2000 of the arrangements applicable to imports
laid down in the Cooperation Agreement with the Former                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as regards certain beef and
veal products (1), and in particular Article 4 thereof,
                                                                                                     Article 1
Whereas:
(1)     Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2684/1999 fixes the           All applications for import rights lodged pursuant to Article 3
        quantity of certain beef and veal products originating in        of Regulation (EC) No 2684/1999 shall be met to the extent of
        the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia that can be            0,22356 % of the quantity applied for.
        imported under special terms in 2000;
(2)     Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 2684/1999 stipulates                                         Article 2
        that the quantities applied for may be reduced; whereas
        the quantities applied for exceed the quantities available;      This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 January 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 20 January 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 326, 18.12.1999, p. 24.