CELEX: 32000R0116
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 116/2000 of 19 January 2000 on the issue of import licences for rice originating in the ACP States and the overseas countries and territories against applications submitted in the first five working days of January 2000 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97

20. 1. 2000            EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 14/15
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 116/2000
                                                          of 19 January 2000
               on the issue of import licences for rice originating in the ACP States and the overseas countries
               and territories against applications submitted in the first five working days of January 2000
                                             pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2603/97
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    for reduced, where appropriate, by the percentages set
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          out in the Annex hereto,
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2603/97 of               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
16 December 1997 laying down the detailed rules of applica-
tion for the import of rice from the ACP States and for the
import of rice from the overseas countries and territories                                          Article 1
(OCT) (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2731/                  1.    Import licences for rice against applications submitted
1999 (2), and in particular Article 9(2) thereof,                       during the first five working days of January 2000 pursuant to
Whereas:                                                                Regulation (EC) No 2603/97 and notified to the Commission
(1)     Pursuant to Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2603/97,         shall be issued for the quantities applied for reduced, where
        the Commission must decide within 10 days of the final          appropriate, by the percentages set out in the Annex hereto.
        date for notification by the Member States the extent to        2.    The available quantities for the following tranche are set
        which applications can be granted and must fix the              out in the Annex hereto.
        available quantities for the following tranche.
(2)     Examination of the quantities for which applications                                        Article 2
        have been submitted shows that licences for the January
        2000 tranche should be issued for the quantities applied        This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 January 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 19 January 2000.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                       Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 351, 23.12.1997, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 39.
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                                                          ANNEX
                                               Regulation (EC) No 2603/97
        Reduction percentages to be applied to quantities applied for under the tranche for January 2000 and
        quantities available for the following tranche:
                                                                                        Quantity available
                                                                                          for the tranche
                                Origin                           Reduction (%)
                                                                                           for May 2000
                                                                                                 (t)
        OCT (Article 6)                                             6,12                        —
        — CN code 1006
        ACP (Article 2(1))                                         68,296                     41,666
        — CN codes 1006 10 21             to   1006 10 98,
           1006 20 and 1006 30
        ACP (Article 3)                                            54,706                     10,000
        — CN code 1006 40 00