CELEX: 32000D0802
Language: en
Date: 2000-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 December 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) 3984)

L 324/44                EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                   21.12.2000
                                                          COMMISSION DECISION
                                                           of 18 December 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) 3984)
                                                                (2000/802/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                                             Article 1
                                                                           The following Member States shall issue on 21 December 2000
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of 20                  import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as boned
July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-             meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean and Pacific
ucts and goods resulting from the processing of agricultural               States, in respect of the following quantities and countries of
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific                 origin:
States (ACP States) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 715/
90 (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,                              Germany:
                                                                           — 240 tonnes originating in Botswana,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 of
                                                                           — 16,6 tonnes originating in Namibia,
9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the applica-
tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation (EC) No             United Kingdom:
1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-               — 50 tonnes originating in Botswana,
ucts and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul-           — 25,8 tonnes originating in Namibia,
tural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific
States and repealing Regulation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in                 — 13,5 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
particular Article 4 thereof,                                              — 0,9 tonnes originating in Zimbabwe.
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             January 2001 for the following quantities of boned beef and
        the limits of the quantities specified for each of these           veal:
        exporting non-member countries.
                                                                           Botswana:                                        18 916 tonnes,
(2)     The applications for import licences submitted between             Kenya:                                              142 tonnes,
        1 and 10 December 2000, expressed in terms of boned                Madagascar:                                       7 579 tonnes,
        meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1918/98,
        do not exceed, in respect of products originating from             Swaziland:                                        3 363 tonnes,
        Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe                   Zimbabwe:                                         9 100 tonnes,
        and Namibia, the quantities available from those States.           Namibia:                                         13 000 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 January 2001 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, 18 December 2000.
        72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veter-
        inary inspection problems on 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.