CELEX: 32000D0168
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 February 2000 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia (notified under document number C(2000) 434)

L 54/50                 EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                   26. 2. 2000
                                                         COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 17 February 2000
                on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya,
                                            Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                              (notified under document number C(2000) 434)
                                                                (2000/168/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of 20                 The following Member States shall issue on 21 February 2000
July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-            import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as boned
ucts and goods resulting from the processing of agricultural              meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean and Pacific
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific                States, in respect of the following quantities and countries of
States (ACP States) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 715/                origin:
90 (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,                             Germany:
                                                                          — 250 tonnes originating in Botswana.
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 of
9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the applica-              United Kingdom:
tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation (EC) No            — 200 tonnes originating in Botswana,
1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-
ucts and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul-          — 120 tonnes originating in Namibia,
tural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific          — 30 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
States and repealing Regulation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in                — 600 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe.
particular Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:                                                                                              Article 2
(1)     Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 provides for              Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to Article 3(2)
        the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and           of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the first 10 days of
        veal products. However, imports must take place within            March 2000 for the following quantities of boned beef and
        the limits of the quantities specified for each of these          veal:
        exporting non-member countries.                                   — Botswana:                                      17 816 tonnes,
(2)     The applications for import licences submitted between            — Kenya:                                            142 tonnes,
        1 and 10 February 2000, expressed in terms of boned               — Madagascar:                                     7 579 tonnes,
        meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1918/98,              — Swaziland:                                      3 728 tonnes,
        do not exceed, in respect of products originating in              — Zimbabwe:                                       7 720 tonnes,
        Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
        and Namibia, the quantities available from those States.          — Namibia:                                       12 399 tonnes.
        It is therefore possible to issue import licences in respect
        of the quantities applied for.                                                                Article 3
(3)     The quantities in respect of which licences may be                This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
        applied for from 1 March 2000 should be fixed within
        the scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes.
(4)     This Decision is without prejudice to Council Directive           Done at Brussels, 17 February 2000.
        72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veter-
        inary inspection problems upon importation of bovine,                                             For the Commission
        ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or
                                                                                                             Franz FISCHLER
        meat products from third countries (3), as last amended
        by Directive 97/79/EC (4),                                                                     Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  215, 1.8.1998, p. 12.
(2) OJ L  250, 10.9.1998, p. 16.
(3) OJ L  302, 31.12.1972, p. 28.
(4) OJ L  24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.