CELEX: 31986R0619
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 619/86 of 28 February 1986 fixing, for 1986, the initial quotas for imports into Portugal of certain egg and poultrymeat products from Spain and certain detailed rules for the application thereof

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                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 619/86
                                                          of 28 February 1986
                 fixing, for 1986, the initial quotas for imports into Portugal of certain egg and
                    poultrymeat products from Spain and certain detailed rules for the application thereof
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas to ensure proper management of the quotas,
COMMUNITIES ,                                                          the applications for import authorizations should be
                                                                       subject to the lodging of a security ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                    Whereas provison should be made for Portugal to com­
                                                                       municate information to the Commission on the appli­
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                     cation of the quotas ;
Portugal , and in particular Article 257 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC)                             are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
No 3792/ 85 of 20 December 1985 laying down the                        Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,
arrangements applying to trade in agricultural products
between Spain and Portugal ('), and in particular
Article 13 thereof,
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, as a result of an error of substance, the correc­
tion of which is being considered, the Act of Accession
does not provide for the application of quantitative res­                                       Article 1
trictions on imports into Portugal of products falling
within Common Customs Tariff subheading 04.05 A
                                                                        1 . The Portuguese Republic may, until 31 December
I b) from the Community as constituted at 31 Decem­                     1987, maintain a quantitative restriction on its imports
ber 1985 ; whereas such restrictions are not provided
                                                                       from Spain of eggs in shell falling within subheading
for, either, in Regulation ( EEC) No 3792/ 85 in the case              04.05 A I b) of the Common Customs Tariff.
of imports from Spain into Portugal ; whereas , given
that the imports in question were prohibited under the
system in force in Portugal before 1 March 1986, such                  2. The quantitative restriction referred to in paragraph
restrictions are necessary in order to arrive smoothly                  1 shall consist of an annual quota opened without dis­
and gradually at the introduction, at the beginning of                 crimination between economic operators .
the second stage, of the arrangements which are prov­
ided for in the market organization concerned and                      3 . The provisions of the fourth, fifth and sixth subpar­
which are based on the principle of the freedom to                     agraphs of Article 4 (4) (a), and Article 4 (4) (b) of
import ; whereas, pending the correction referred to                    Regulation ( EEC) No 3792/85 shall apply in respect of
above, the transitional measures should therefore                      the quotas provided for in this Article .
 include the application of quantitative restrictions in
respect of the products in question ; whereas the criteria
specified in Article 4 (4) of Regulation ( EEC)
 No 3792 / 85 are suitable for calculating the volume of                                        Article 2
the said quantitative restrictions ;
                                                                       1 . The volume of the initial quotas that Portugal may
 Whereas Article 4 (4) of Regulation ( EEC) No 3792/ 85                apply, pursuant to Article 1 of this Regulation and
lays down the criteria for fixing the initial quotas in                Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85, to imports of egg and
 1986 for each product listed in Annexes I and II to the               poultrymeat products from Spain shall be as shown in
 Regulation ; whereas, in the light of the information at              the Annex hereto .
 present available, the quotas should be fixed on the
basis of the first of the criterion, in the case of chicks
 and eggs of fowl, for hatching, and the third criterion in
                                                                       2. For the period 1 March to 31 December 1986, the
 the case of other products ; whereas that quota is in                 volumes in question shall be reduced by one-sixth.
 addition to that applicable, under Article 269 of the Act
 of Accession, to imports into the Community as consti­
 tuted at 31 December 1985 ;
                                                                                                Article 3
                                                                       The Portuguese authorities shall issue import authoriza­
                                                                       tions so as to ensure a fair allocation of the available
  (')  OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7 .                              quantity between the applicants .
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Application for import authorizations shall be subject           month, the following information on import authoriza­
to the lodging of a security, which shall be released,          tions issued in the preceding month :
under the conditions defined by the Portuguese auth­
orities, once the goods have been effectively imported .
                                                                — the quantities covered by the import authorizations
                           Article 4                                issued,
                                                                — the quantities imported.
1 . The Portuguese authorities shall communicate to
the Commission the measures which they adopt for the
application of Article 3 .                                                              Article 5
2.   They shall transmit, not later than the 15th of each       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1986.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 28 February 1986.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                            Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                               Vice-President
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                                                         ANNEX
         CCT heading No                             Description                         Initial quota for 1986
             01.05      Live poultry, that is to say, fowls , ducks, geese, turkeys and
                        guinea fowls                                                        (1 000 units )
                        A. Of a weight not exceeding 185 g (known as ' chicks '):
                            ex I. Turkeys and geese :
                                    — Turkeys                                                      149
                            ex II . Other :
                                    — Fowls                                                      1 218
             04.05      Birds' eggs and egg yolks fresh, dried or otherwise preserved,
                        sweetened or not :
                        A. Eggs in shell , fresh or preserved :
                            I. Poultry eggs :
                                a) Eggs for hatching :
                                     ex 1 . Of turkeys or geese :
                                            — Of turkeys                                            18
                                     ex 2 . Other :
                                            — Of fowl                                               53
                                                                                               (tonnes)
                                b ) Other                                                          443