CELEX: 32000R2496
Language: en
Date: 2000-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2496/2000 of 14 November 2000 suspending the issuing of import licences for certain sugar-sector products qualifying as EC/OCT originating products

15.11.2000             EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                      L 288/13
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2496/2000
                                                         of 14 November 2000
               suspending the issuing of import licences for certain sugar-sector products qualifying as EC/OCT
                                                          originating products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      4 848 tonnes of sugar during the period of validity of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            that Regulation. An import licence was issued for 4 848
Community,                                                                       tonnes of sugar in October 2000.
Having regard to Council Decision 91/482/EEC of 25 July                  (2)     Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 2081/2000, in conjunc-
1991 on the association of the overseas countries and terri-                     tion with Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2553/97,
tories with the European Community (1), as last amended by                       provides that where licence applications cover quantities
Decision 97/803/EC (2),                                                          in excess of 4 848 tonnes of sugar, the Commission is to
                                                                                 suspend the submission of further applications during
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2081/2000
                                                                                 the period of validity of that Regulation.
of 29 September 2000 providing for the continued application
of safeguard measures for imports from the overseas countries
and territories of sugar-sector products with EC/OCT cumula-
tion of origin (3), and in particular Article 2(2) thereof, in           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
conjunction with Commission Regulation (EC) No 2553/97 of
17 December 1997 on rules for issuing import licences for                                             Article 1
certain products covered by CN codes 1701, 1702, 1703 and
1704 and qualifying as ACP/OCT originating products (4), and             The submission of further applications during the period of
in particular Article 5(3) thereof,                                      validity of Regulation (EC) No 2081/2000 is hereby suspended.
Whereas:
                                                                                                      Article 2
(1)     Article 1 or Regulation (EC) No 2081/2000 allows
        EC/OCT cumulation of origin for products covered by              This regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
        CN codes 1701, 1806 10 30 and 1806 10 90 for up to               publication.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 14 November 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 263,  19.9.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 329,  29.11.1997, p. 50.
(3) OJ L 246,  30.9.2000, p. 64.
(4) OJ L 349,  19.12.1997, p. 26.