CELEX: 31995D0439
Language: en
Date: 1995-10-19 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION DECISION of 19 October 1995 on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia

27. 10 . 95          EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 257/51
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 19 October 1995
                   on import licences in respect of beef and veal products originating in Botswana,
                                  Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia
                                                           (95/439/EC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        November 1995 should be fixed within the total quantity
                                                                    of 52 1 00 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
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of            problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine
 5 March 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricul­           animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from
 tural products and certain goods resulting from the               third countries Q, as last amended by the Act of Acces­
                                                                   sion of Austria, Finland and Sweden,
 processing of agricultural products originating in the ACP
 States or in the overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('),
 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2484/94 (2), and in
 particular Article 27 thereof,                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No
  1636/95 of 5 July 1995 temporarily adapting the special                                   Article 1
 import arrangements in the beef sector provided for in
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 with the view to the           The following Member States shall issue on 21 October
 implementation of the Agreement on Agriculture                     1995 import licences for beef and veal products, expressed
 concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral                as boned meat, originating in certain African, Caribbean
 trade negotiations (3),                                           and Pacific States, in respect of the following quantities
                                                                   and countries of origin :
 Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1636/95                   Germany :
 provides for the possibility of issuing import licences for
 beef and veal products ; whereas, however, imports must           — 980,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
 take place within the limits of the quantities specified for      — 630,000 tonnes originating in Namibia ;
 each of these exporting third countries ;
                                                                   France :
 Whereas the applications for import licences submitted            — 148,732 tonnes originating in Botswana,
 between 1 and 10 October 1995, expressed in terms of              — 15,000 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
boned meat, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
 1636/95, do not exceed, in respect of products originating        — 60,000 tonnes originating in Namibia ;
 from Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Swaziland and
                                                                   Greece :
 Namibia the quantities available from these States ;
whereas it is therefore possible to issue import licences in       — 1 ,227 tonnes originating in Madagascar ;
respect of the quantities requested for those countries ;
                                                                   Italy :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2449/95 of 19                — 120,000 tonnes originating in Madagascar,
October 1995 establishing for 1995 the breakdown for
beef imports from the African, Caribbean and Pacific               Netherlands :
(ACP) States pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No
715/90 (4) provides in 1995 for a transfer to Zimbabwe of          — 79,193 tonnes originating in Madagascar ;
 1 642 tonnes from the quotas allocated to Kenya, Swazi­
land and Namibia ; whereas, on the basis of that transfer          United Kingdom :
and the licences applied for in October, the quantities for
which licence applications may be submitted from 1                 — 657,000 tonnes originating in Botswana,
                                                                   — 220,000 tonnes originating in Swaziland,
(') OJ  No  L  84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.                             — 400,000 tonnes originating in Namibia.
0   OJ  No  L  265, 15. 10. 1994, p. 3.
(3) OJ  No  L  155, 6. 7. 1995, p. 25.
(<) OJ  No  L  252, 20. 10. 1995, p. 1 .                           0 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 1636/95 during the
first 10 days of November 1995 for the following quanti­
ties of boned beef and veal :
     Botswana :                        6 090,652 tonnes,     Done at Brussels, 19 October 1995.
     Kenya :                               0,000 tonnes,
     Madagascar :                      3 983,885 tonnes,
                                                                                      For the Commission
     Swaziland :                       1 758,500 tonnes,
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
     Namibia :                         1 681,300 tonnes,
     Zimbabwe :                        1 642,000 tonnes.                          Member of the Commission