CELEX: 32000D0357
Language: en
Date: 2000-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 May 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) 1271)

L 127/60               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                    27.5.2000
                                                         COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 17 May 2000
               on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Mada-
                                             gascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                             (notified under document number C(2000) 1271)
                                                               (2000/357/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1706/98 of 20                 The following Member States shall issue on 21 May 2000
July 1998 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-            import licences for beef and veal products, expressed as boned
ucts and goods resulting from the processing of agricultural              meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean and Pacific
products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific                States, in respect of the following quantities and countries of
States (ACP States) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 715/                origin:
90 (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,                             Germany:
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 of                 — 620 tonnes originating in Botswana,
9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the applica-              — 200 tonnes originating in Namibia;
tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation (EC) No
                                                                          United Kingdom:
1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-
ucts and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul-          — 600 tonnes originating      in Botswana,
tural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific          — 470 tonnes originating      in Namibia,
States and repealing Regulation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in                — 15 tonnes originating       in Swaziland,
particular Article 4 thereof,                                             — 705 tonnes originating      in Zimbabwe.
Whereas:
                                                                                                      Article 2
(1)     Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 provides for
        the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and           Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to Article 3(2)
        veal products. However, imports must take place within            of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the first 10 days of
        the limits of the quantities specified for each of these          June 2000 for the following quantities of boned beef and veal:
        exporting non-member countries.
                                                                          — Botswana:                                      15 726 tonnes,
(2)     The applications for import licences submitted between            — Kenya:                                            142 tonnes,
        1 and 10 May 2000, expressed in terms of boned meat,              — Madagascar:                                     7 579 tonnes,
        in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, do not
        exceed, in respect of products originating from Bots-             — Swaziland:                                      3 133 tonnes,
        wana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and                  — Zimbabwe:                                       6 610 tonnes,
        Namibia, the quantities available from those States. It is        — Namibia:                                       10 275 tonnes.
        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 June 2000 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, 17 May 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.