CELEX: 31996D0303
Language: en
Date: 1996-04-18 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 18 April 1996 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia

No L 116/28         EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                11 . 5. 96
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 18 April 1996
                    on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana,
                                  Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                                             (96/303/EC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          whereas the quantities in respect of which licences may
                                                                      be applied for from 1 May 1996, should be fixed within
                                                                      the scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Whereas it seems expedient to recall that this Decision is
  Community,
                                                                      without prejudice to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12
                                                                      December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection
                                                                      problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine
                                                                      animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of              third countries (4), as last amended by the Act of Acces­
  5 March 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricul­             sion of Austria, Finland and Sweden,
  tural products and certain goods resulting from the
  processing of agricultural products originating in the
  African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) or in the
  overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('), as last
  amended by Regulation (EC) No 619/96 (2), and in parti­
  cular Article 27 thereof,                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/96                                          Article 1
 of 2 April 1996 laying down detailed rules for the applica­
 tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation
 (EEC) No 715/90 on the arrangements applicable to agri­             The following Member States shall issue on 21 March
 cultural products and certain goods resulting from the              1996 import licences for beef and veal products, expressed
 processing of agricultural products originating in the              as boned meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean
 African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas            and Pacific States, in respect of the following quantities
 countries and territories (3), in particular Article 4 thereof,     and countries of origin :
                                                                     Germany:
 Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 589/96 provides
 for the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and         — 400,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
 veal products; whereas, however, imports must take place            — 225,000 tonnes originating in Madagascar,
 within the limits of the quantities specified for each of
 these exporting non-member countries;                               — 118 000 tonnes originating in Namibia;
                                                                     Netherlands:
Whereas the applications for import licences submitted               — 300,000 tonnes originating in Botswana;
between 1 and 10 April 1996, expressed in terms of
boned meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
 589/96, do not exceed, in respect of products originating           United Kingdom:
from Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
and Namibia the quantities available from these States;             — 930,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
whereas it is therefore possible to issue import licences in
respect of the quantities requested;                                — 55,000 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
                                                                    — 850,000 tonnes originating in Namibia.
(') OJ No L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
(2) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1996, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 84, 3. 4. 1996, p. 22.                                  (4) OJ No L 302, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 28 .
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                          Article 2                                                     Article 3
Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to               This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 589/96 during the first
10 days of May 1996 for the following quantities of boned
beef and veal :
     Botswana:          15 641,000  tonnes,                      Done at Brussels, 18 April 1996 .
    Kenya:                 142,000  tonnes,
    Madagascar:          6 817,187  tonnes,
                                                                                          For the Commission
    Swaziland:           3 208,000  tonnes,
                                                                                            Franz FISCHLER
    Zimbabwe :           7 576, 180 tonnes,
    Namibia:            11 545,006   tonnes.                                          Member of the Commission