CELEX: 32000R0746
Language: en
Date: 2000-04-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 746/2000 of 10 April 2000 on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal

11.4.2000              EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                           L 89/5
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 746/2000
                                                             of 10 April 2000
                   on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               (3)     It should be recalled that licences issued pursuant to this
                                                                                  Regulation will, throughout the period of validity, be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             open for use only in so far as provisions on health
Community,                                                                        protection in force permit,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 936/97 of
27 May 1997 opening and providing for the administration of
tariff quotas for high-quality fresh, chilled and frozen beef and         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
for frozen buffalo meat (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 134/1999 (2),                                                                                        Article 1
Whereas:                                                                  1.     All applications for import licences from 1 to 5 April
                                                                          2000 for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal as
(1)     Regulation (EC) No 936/97 provides in Articles 4 and 5            referred to in Article 2(f) of Regulation (EC) No 936/97 shall be
        the conditions for applications and for the issue of              granted in full.
        import licences for meat referred to in Article 2(f).
                                                                          2.     Applications for licences may be submitted, in accord-
(2)     Article 2(f) of Regulation (EC) No 936/97 fixes the               ance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 936/97, during the
        amount of high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and          first five days of May 2000 for 9 567,157 t.
        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 1999 to 30 June
        2000 at 11 500 t.                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 April 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 10 April 2000.
                                                                                        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.