CELEX: 32000R1979
Language: en
Date: 2000-09-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1979/2000 of 19 September 2000 on the issue of import licences for rice originating in the ACP States and the overseas countries and territories against applications submitted in the first five working days of September 2000 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97

L 236/12               EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                   20.9.2000
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1979/2000
                                                        of 19 September 2000
               on the issue of import licences for rice originating in the ACP States and the overseas countries
               and territories against applications submitted in the first five working days of September 2000
                                             pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    ities applied for reduced, where appropriate, by the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          percentages set out in the Annex hereto,
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2603/97 of
16 December 1997 laying down the detailed rules of applica-             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
tion for the import of rice from the ACP States and for the
import of rice from the overseas countries and territories                                          Article 1
(OCT) (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2731/
1999 (2), and in particular Article 9(2) thereof,                       1.    Import licences for rice against applications submitted
Whereas:                                                                during the first five working days of September 2000 pursuant
                                                                        to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97 and notified to the Commis-
(1)     Pursuant to Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2603/97,         sion shall be issued for the quantities applied for reduced,
        the Commission must decide within 10 days of the final          where appropriate, by the percentages set out in the Annex
        date for notification by the Member States the extent to        hereto.
        which applications can be granted and must fix the
        available quantities for the following tranche and, if          2.    The available quantities for the additional tranche for
        necessary, the available quantities for the additional          October are set out in the Annex hereto.
        tranche for October.
(2)     Examination of the quantities for which applications                                        Article 2
        have been submitted shows that licences for the
        September 2000 tranche should be issued for the quant-          This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 September 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 19 September 2000.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                       Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 351, 23.12.1997, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 39.
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                                                                   ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 19 September 2000 on the issue of import licences for rice originating in the
          ACP States and the overseas countries and territories against applications submitted in the first five working
                                 days of September 2000 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97
                 Reduction percentages to be applied to quantities applied for under the tranche for September 2000 and
                 quantities available for the additional tranche for October:
                                                                                                    Quantity available
                                                                                                for the additional tranche
                                         Origin                            Reduction (%)
                                                                                                    for October 2000
                                                                                                            (t)
                 ACP (Article 2(1))                                          90,902                         —
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                    1006 20 and 1006 30