CELEX: 31997R1929
Language: en
Date: 1997-10-02
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1929/97 of 2 October 1997 on the issue of import licences for rice falling within CN code 1006 originating in the overseas countries and territories, under the safeguard measures introduced by Council Regulation (EC) No 1036/97

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                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1929/97
                                                           of 2 October 1997
                    on the issue of import licences for rice falling within CN code 1006 originating
                    in the overseas countries and territories, under the safeguard measures
                                      introduced by Council Regulation (EC) No 1036/97
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         by Regulation (EC) No 1036/97 are exhausted for the
                                                                       period 1 May to 30 November 1997; whereas, as a result,
                                                                       the submission of import licence applications for this
                                                                       origin pursuant to that Regulation should be suspended,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,
   Having regard to Council Decision 91 /482/EEC of 25                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   July 1991 on the association of the overseas countries and
   territories with the European Economic Community ('),
                                                                                                Article 1
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1036/97 of
   2 June 1997 introducing safeguard measures in respect of            Import licences for rice and broken rice falling within
  imports of rice originating in the overseas countries and           CN code 1006 submitted in accordance with the arrange­
  territories (OCTs) (2), and in particular Article 4 (3) thereof,    ments provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1036/97 shall
                                                                      be issued for the quantities indicated in the applications
                                                                      reduced by the following percentage:
  Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1036/97 introduces safe­                 — 47,8285 % for applications indicating the origin
  guard measures in respect of imports of rice originating in              'other OCTs' provided for in Article 1 (b) of that
  the overseas countries and territories, hereinafter referred             Regulation submitted on 24 September 1997.
  to as OCTs; whereas those measures provide for exemp­
  tion from customs duties on importation pursuant to a
  tariff quota and allocation thereof to various specified
  origins; whereas they provide in particular for the restric­                                 Article 2
  tion of the number of licence applications made daily by
  each importer for each origin; whereas, to ensure that the
  tariff quota quantity is not exceeded, Article 4 (3) of the         For import licence applications for rice and broken rice
  aforementioned Regulation provides that, if the quantities          falling within CN code 1006 lodged from 25 September
  exceed the quantities available for one or more of the              1997 for the origin 'other OCTs' provided for in Article 1
 quotas specified, the Commission is to set a single                 (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1036/97 no import licence
  percentage reduction to be applied to the quantities for           shall be issued under the tariff quota.
 which applications were lodged on the day on which the
 quotas were exceeded;
                                                                                               Article 3
 Whereas the quantities applied for on 24 September 1997
 exceed the quantities available for the origins 'other              Submission of import licence applications for rice and
 OCTs'; whereas, as a result, Article 4 (3) of Regulation            broken rice falling within CN code 1006 of the origin
 (EC) No 1036/97 should be applied to the applications               'other OCTs' provided for in Article 1 (b) of Regulation
 submitted on the aforementioned date for the origin indi­           (EC) No 1036/97 shall be suspended until 30 November
 cated, and applications submitted subsequently — and                1997.
 pending for this origin — should be rejected;
                                                                                               Article 4
Whereas the quantities available for the origin 'other
OCTs' for importation pursuant to the tariff quota opened
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(') OJ L 263 , 19. 9 . 1991 , p. 1 .                                 publication in the Official Journal of the European
(2) OJ L 151 , 10 . 6. 1997, p. 8 .                                  Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 2 October 1997.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission