CELEX: 31998R0296
Language: en
Date: 1998-02-04 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 296/98 of 4 February 1998 determining to what extent applications for import rights for calves not exceeding 80 kilograms lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2542/97 can be met

5. 2. 98             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                    L 30/29
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 296/98
                                                    of 4 February 1998
                 determining to what extent applications for import rights for calves not
                 exceeding 80 kilograms lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2542/97 can be
                                                              met
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                                Article 1
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2542/              Every application for an import right for live animals of
97 of 16 December 1997 laying down, for the first six             the bovine species not exceeding 80 kilograms shall be
months of 1998, detailed rules of application for a tariff        granted to the following extent:
quota for calves weighing not more than 80 kilograms
originating in certain third countries (1), and in particular     (a) for importers covered by (a) in Article 2 (3) of Regula-
Article 5 (1) thereof,                                                tion (EC) No 2542/97, 12,8794 % of the quantity
                                                                      imported in 1995, 1996 and 1997;
Whereas Article 2 (4) of Regulation (EC) No 2542/97
provides for the quantities reserved to customary im-             (b) for importers covered by (b) in Article 2 (3) of Regula-
porters to be assigned in proportion to their imports                 tion (EC) No 2542/97, 0,09506 % of the quantity
during 1995, 1996 and 1997;                                           applied for.
Whereas allocation of the quantities available to operators
covered by point (b) in Article 2 (3) is to be made in                                    Article 2
proportion to the quantities applied for; whereas since
the quantities applied for exceed those available, a fixed        This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 February
percentage reduction should be set,                               1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 4 February 1998.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 347, 18. 12. 1997, p. 17.