CELEX: 31998R1196
Language: en
Date: 1998-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1196/98 of 9 June 1998 concerning applications for import licences for quality wheat qualifying for the conditions referred to in Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96

L 165/14             EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 10. 6. 98
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1196/98
                                                     of 9 June 1998
                 concerning applications for import licences for quality wheat qualifying for the
                           conditions referred to in Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      maximum quantity to be allocated is 100 000 tonnes;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            whereas the appropriate percentage of reduction for
Community,                                                       import licence applications submitted between 4 May and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of           3 June 1998 qualifying for the conditions provided for in
18 June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions            Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 must therefore be set,
set out in Schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the
conclusion of the GATT XXIV:6 negotiations (1), and in           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
particular Article 1 thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 529/97 of 21
                                                                                         Article 1
March 1997 opening and administering a tariff quota of
300 000 tonnes of quality wheat and repealing Regulation         Applications for import licences for quality common
(EC) No 1854/94 (2), as amended by Regulation (EC) No            wheat qualifying for the conditions provided for in Regu-
850/97 (3), lays down special provisions on the organ-           lation (EC) No 1095/96 submitted between 4 May and 3
isation of imports under the quota opened by Regulation          June 1998 and notified to the Commission shall be
(EC) No 1095/96; whereas Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC)         accepted for the tonnages indicated therein multiplied by
No 529/97 provides that the Commission is to fix a               a coefficient of 0,68. Applications not notified to the
uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if applica-       Commission shall be refused.
tions for import licences exceed the quantities that may
be imported; whereas applications for licences submitted                                 Article 2
between 4 May and 3 June 1998 relate to 147 197,86
tonnes of quality common wheat and whereas the                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 June 1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 9 June 1998.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 146, 20. 6. 1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 82, 22. 3. 1997, p. 44.
(3) OJ L 122, 14. 5. 1997, p. 10.