CELEX: 31999R1214
Language: en
Date: 1999-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1214/1999 of 11 June 1999 concerning applications for import licences for quality common wheat and quality durum wheat under tariff quotas provided for in Regulations (EC) No 778/1999

L 147/12             EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                               12. 6. 1999
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1214/1999
                                                    of 11 June 1999
                 concerning applications for import licences for quality common wheat and
                 quality durum wheat under tariff quotas provided for in Regulations (EC) No
                                                         778/1999
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      maximum quantity to be allocated is 50 000 tonnes;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            whereas the appropriate percentage of reduction for
Community,                                                       import licence applications submitted between 23 April
                                                                 and 7 June 1999 qualifying for the conditions provided
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of           for in Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 must therefore be set,
18 June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions
set out in Schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the
conclusion of the GATT XXIV:6 negotiations (1), and in           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
particular Article 1 thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 778/1999 of                                         Article 1
15 April 1999 opening and providing for the administra-
                                                                 Applications for import licences for quality common
tion of tariff quotas for 300 000 tonnes of quality wheat
                                                                 wheat qualifying for the conditions provided for in Regu-
and 50 000 tonnes of durum wheat and repealing Regula-
                                                                 lation (EC) No 1095/96 submitted between 23 April and
tions (EC) No 529/97 and (EC) No 2228/96 (2), lays down
                                                                 7 June 1999 and notified to the Commission shall be
special provisions on the organisation of imports under
                                                                 accepted for the tonnages indicated therein multiplied by
the quota opened by Regulation (EC) No 1095/96;
                                                                 a coefficient of 0,241. Applications not notified to the
whereas Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 778/1999
                                                                 Commission shall be refused.
provides that the Commission is to fix a uniform
percentage reduction in the quantities if applications for
import licences exceed the quantities that may be                                         Article 2
imported; whereas applications for licences for quality          Applications for import licences for quality durum wheat
common wheat submitted between 23 April and 7 June               qualifying for the conditions provided for in Regulation
1999 relate to 4 140 867 tonnes of quality wheat; whereas        (EC) No 1095/96 submitted between 23 April and 7 June
the maximum quantity to be allocated is 100 000 tonnes;          1999 and notified to the Commission shall be accepted
whereas the appropriate percentage of reduction for              for the tonnages indicated therein multiplied by a coeffi-
import licence applications submitted between 23 April           cient of 0,311. Applications not notified to the Commis-
and 7 June 1999 qualifying for the conditions provided           sion shall be refused.
for in Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 must therefore be set;
Whereas applications for licences for quality durum                                       Article 3
wheat submitted between 23 April and 7 June 1999 relate
to 160 729 tonnes of quality durum wheat; whereas the            This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 June 1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 11 June 1999.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 146, 20.6.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 101, 16.4.1999, p. 36.