CELEX: 31999D0159
Language: en
Date: 1999-02-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 February 1999 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia (notified under document number C(1999) 374)

L 52/58              EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                27. 2. 1999
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 18 February 1999
                 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana,
                                Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                      (notified under document number C(1999) 374)
                                                         (1999/159/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas this Decision is without prejudice to Council
                                                                   Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health
                                                                   and veterinary inspection problems on importation of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat
Community,                                                         or meat products from third countries (3), as last amended
                                                                   by Directive 97/79/EC (4),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of
20 July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricul-
tural products and goods resulting from the processing of          HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
agricultural products originating in the African, Carib-
bean and Pacific States (ACP States) and repealing Regula-
tion (EEC) No 715/90 (1), and in particular Article 30                                        Article 1
thereof,
                                                                   The following Member States shall issue on 21 February
                                                                   1999 import licences for beef and veal products,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/               expressed as deboned meat, originating in certain African,
98 of 9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the          Caribbean and Pacific States, in respect of the following
application in the beef and veal sector of Council Regula-         quantities and countries of origin:
tion (EC) No 1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to
agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the         Germany
processing of agricultural products originating in the
African, Caribbean and Pacific States and repealing Regu-          — 320,000 tonnes originating in Botswana.
lation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in particular Article 4
thereof,                                                           United Kingdom
                                                                   — 480,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98                    — 355,000 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe,
provides for the possibility of issuing import licences for        — 850,000 tonnes originating in Namibia,
beef and veal products; whereas, however, imports must
take place within the limits of the quantities specified for       — 15,000 tonnes originating in Swaziland.
each of these exporting non-member countries;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas the applications for import licences submitted
between 1 and 10 February 1999, expressed in terms of              Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to
deboned meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No                Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the
1918/98, do not exceed, in respect of products originating         first 10 days of March 1999 for the following quantities of
in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe                deboned beef and veal:
and Namibia, the quantities available from those States;
whereas it is therefore possible to issue import licences in       — Botswana:                 17 946,000 tonnes,
respect of the quantities applied for;                             — Kenya:                       142,000 tonnes,
                                                                   — Madagascar:                7 579,000 tonnes,
                                                                   — Swaziland:                 3 333,000 tonnes,
Whereas the quantities in respect of which licences may
be applied for from 1 March 1999 should be fixed within            — Zimbabwe:                  8 273,000 tonnes,
the scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes;                  — Namibia:                  11 675,000 tonnes.
(1) OJ L 215, 1. 8. 1998, p. 12.                                   (3) OJ L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 28.
(2) OJ L 250, 10. 9. 1998, p. 16.                                  (4) OJ L 24, 30. 1. 1998, p. 31.
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                                                   Article 3
            This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
            Done at Brussels, 18 February 1999.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                                 Member of the Commission