Commission Regulation (EC) No 1225/96 of 28 June 1996 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 as regards the import and export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector and amending Regulation (EC) No 3016/95 opening Community tariff quotas for 1996 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1225/96 of 28 June 1996 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 as regards the import and export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector and amending Regulation (EC) No 3016/95 opening Community tariff quotas for 1996 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 of 22 December 1995 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for the adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreements to take account of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round Multilateral Trade Negotiations (1), amended by Regulation EC No 1194 (2), and in particular article 8 thereof;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 provided in particular for a reduction in duty and increases in certain import quantities in the first six months of 1996; whereas it also provided for the importation of pure-bred breeding goats falling within CN code 0104 20 10 within the tariff quotas for Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria;
Whereas the measures provided for in Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 have been extended until 31 December 1996 by virtue of Regulation (EC) No 1194/96;
Whereas this extension should be incorporated into Commission Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 of 26 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 as regards the import and export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2526/95 (4), and into Commission Regulation (EC) No 3016/95 (5) of December 1995 opening Community tariff quotas for 1996 for sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 873/96 (6) for the period up to 31 December 1996;
Whereas Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 lays down the quantities of sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat that may be imported from Romania under the preferential scheme within tariff quotas; whereas those quotas were opened for 1996 by Commission Regulation (EC) No 3016/95;
Whereas the said Annex also provides for the possibility of Romania converting limited quantities of meat exports into quantities of live animals; whereas Romania has asked the Community to convert 113 tonnes of meat expressed as carcase weight bone-in that may be exported into the Community in 1996 into 113 tonnes of live animals expressed as carcase weight bone-in; whereas this request should be accepted;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sheepmeat and Goatmeat,