CELEX: 32001R0535
Language: en
Date: 2001-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 535/2001 of 19 March 2001 on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP bananas for the second quarter of 2001 and on the submission of new applications

20.3.2001              EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 80/3
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 535/2001
                                                            of 19 March 2001
                on the issuing of import licences for bananas under the tariff quotas and for traditional ACP
                     bananas for the second quarter of 2001 and on the submission of new applications
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                       applied to each licence application for the origin or
                                                                                  origins involved.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                          (6)     The maximum quantity for which licence applications
Community,
                                                                                  may still be submitted in accordance with Article 18 of
                                                                                  Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 should be set, taking
                                                                                  account of the applications accepted at the end of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13                         application period and of the available quantities.
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in
bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 216/
2001 (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,                           (7)     This Regulation should apply immediately to permit
                                                                                  licences to be issued as quickly as possible.
Whereas:                                                                  (8)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
                                                                                  accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                  Committee for Bananas,
(1)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 (3), as last
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 1632/2000 (4), lays
        down detailed rules for the implementation of Council
        Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 regarding imports of
        bananas into the Community.
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(2)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2374/2000 (5) lays
        down specific rules on imports of bananas under the
        tariff quotas and of traditional ACP bananas for 2001.                                         Article 1
(3)     Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2362/98 lays down                Import licences for bananas shall be issued under the tariff
        that where, in the case of a given quarter and for any            quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas referred to
        one or more of the origins listed in Annex I, the quant-          in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 for the second
        ities applied for appreciably exceed and indicative               quarter of 2001 for:
        quantity fixed under Article 14 or exeed the quantities
        available, a percentage reduction to be applied to the             (a) the quantity indicated in the licence application, multiplied
        amounts requested shall be fixed.                                      by reduction coefficients of 0,5946, 0,8229, and 0,5248,
                                                                               for applications indicating the origins ‘Columbia’, ‘Costa
                                                                               Rica’ and ‘Ecuador’ respectively;
(4)     The indicative quantities available for import under the
        tariff quotas and the quantity of traditional ACP bananas         (b) the quantity indicated in the licence application, for
        are laid down for the second quarter of 2001 by                        applications indicating origins other than those referred to
        Commission Regulation (EC) No 395/2001 (6), which                      in (a).
        also lays down the conditions for issuing licences for the
        second quarter of 2001.
                                                                                                       Article 2
(5)     In the case of the quantities covered by licence applica-
        tions that are either less than or do not appreciably
        exceed the indicative quantities fixed for the given              The quantities for which licence applications may still be
        quarter, import licences are issued for the quantities            lodged in respect of the second quarter of 2001 are laid down
        applied for. However, for certain origins, the quantities         in the Annex.
        applied for appreciably exceed the indicative quantities.
        A reduction percentage should therefore be set to be
(1) OJ L  47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.                                                                         Article 3
(2) OJ L  31, 2.2.2001, p. 2.
(3) OJ L  293, 31.10.1998, p. 32.
(4) OJ L  187, 26.7.2000, p. 27.
(5) OJ L  275, 27.10.2000, p. 5.                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
(6) OJ L  58, 28.2.2001, p. 11.                                           tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
               Done at Brussels, 19 March 2001.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                                                                                                   (tonnes)
                                                                         Quantities available for new applications
       Panama                                                                          59 741,864
       Others                                                                          31 423,876
       Traditional ACP bananas                                                        218 507,637