1999/422/EC: Commission Decision of 24 June 1999 laying down measures for the application of the Order of the President of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 30 April 1999 in Case T-44/98 RII (notified under document number C(1999) 1736)

COMMISSION DECISION
of 24 June 1999
laying down measures for the application of the Order of the President of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 30 April 1999 in Case T-44/98 RII
(notified under document number C(1999) 1736)
(1999/422/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
(1) Whereas on 30 April 1999 the President of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities made an order in Case T-44/98 RII (Emesa Sugar (Free Zone) NV - hereinafter called "Emesa" - v. the Commission of the European Communities), suspending, as regards Emesa, the application of Article 108b of Council Decision 91/482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Economic Community(1), as last amended by Decision 97/803/EC(2), of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2553/97 of 17 December 1997 on rules for issuing import licences for certain products covered by CN codes 1701, 1702, 1703 and 1704 and qualifying as ACP/OCT originating products(3), and of the Commission Decision of 23 December 1997 (VI/51329)(4), (hereinafter called the "Order");
(2) Whereas, in addition, the Order authorised Emesa to import ground sugar originating in the overseas countries and territories (OCTs), within the meaning of Article 6 of Annex II to Decision 91/482/EEC, on the conditions set out in that Decision as they applied up to 30 November 1997 and subject to certain requirements and restrictions;
(3) Whereas in order to enable Emesa to carry out the transactions for which it received authorisation in the Order, the implementing provisions which the Member States and Emesa must observe should be laid down,