CELEX: 32000D0241
Language: en
Date: 2000-03-16 00:00:00
Title: 2000/241/EC: Commission Decision of 16 March 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) 742)

L 76/22                 EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    25.3.2000
                                                         COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 16 March 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) 742)
                                                                (2000/241/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 March 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                 — 280 tonnes originating in Botswana,
9 September 1998 laying down detailed rules for the applica-
tion in the beef and veal sector of Council Regulation (EC) No            — 125 tonnes originating in Namibia.
1706/98 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural prod-              United Kingdom:
ucts and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul-
tural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific          — 300 tonnes originating in Botswana,
States and repealing Regulation (EC) No 589/96 (2), and in                — 550 tonnes originating in Namibia,
particular Article 4 thereof,                                             — 80 tonnes originating in Swaziland.
Whereas:                                                                                              Article 2
(1)     Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98 provides for              Licence applications may be submitted, pursuant to Article 3(2)
        the possibility of issuing import licences for beef and           of Regulation (EC) No 1918/98, during the first 10 days of
        veal products. However, imports must take place within            April 2000 for the following quantities of boned beef and veal:
        the limits of the quantities specified for each of these
        exporting non-member countries.                                   — Botswana:                                      17 236 tonnes,
(2)     The applications for import licences submitted between            — Kenya:                                            142 tonnes,
        1 and 10 March 2000, expressed in terms of boned                  — Madagascar:                                     7 579 tonnes,
        meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1918/98,
        do not exceed, in respect of products originating in              — Swaziland:                                      3 198 tonnes,
        Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe                  — Zimbabwe:                                       7 720 tonnes,
        and Namibia, the quantities available from those States.
                                                                          — Namibia:                                       11 724 tonnes.
        It is therefore possible to issue import licences in respect
        of the quantities applied for.
(3)     The quantities in respect of which licences may be                                            Article 3
        applied for from 1 April 2000 should be fixed within              This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
        the scope of the total quantity of 52 100 tonnes.
(4)     This Decision is without prejudice to Council Directive           Done at Brussels, 16 March 2000.
        72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veter-
        inary inspection problems upon 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.