Commission Regulation (EC) No 2704/2000 of 11 December 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 laying down rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulations (EC) No 1727/2000 and (EC) No 3066/95 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EEC) No 1559/94

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2704/2000
of 11 December 2000
amending Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 laying down rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulations (EC) No 1727/2000 and (EC) No 3066/95 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EEC) No 1559/94
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
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 of multilateral trade negotiations(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2435/98(2), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2290/2000 of 9 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with Bulgaria(3), and in particular Article 1(3) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2433/2000 of 17 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with the Czech Republic(4), and in particular Article 1(3) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2434/2000 of 17 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with the Slovak Republic(5), and in particular Article 1(3) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2435/2000 of 17 October 2000 establishing certain concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autonomous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with Romania(6), and in particular Article 1(3) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in eggs(7), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1516/96(8), and in particular Article 22 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in poultrymeat(9), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2916/95(10), and in particular Article 22 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 of 29 September 1997 laying down rules of application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors for the arrangements covered by Council Regulations (EC) No 1727/2000 and (EC) No 3066/95 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94(11), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1773/2000(12), lays down rules of application in these sectors for the arrangements in the Europe Agreements. It must be modified in line with the provisions on poultrymeat and egg products adopted in Regulations (EC) No 2290/2000, (EC) No 2433/2000, (EC) No 2434/2000 and (EC) No 2435/2000.
(2) To prevent licences being used after the end of the period for which they have been applied for, they should not be valid beyond 30 June of the current year and the date for lodging applications for the following period should be brought forward.
(3) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code(13), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1602/2000(14), codified the management rules for tariff quotas designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of customs declarations.
(4) To allow the application of the arrangements provided for in the above Regulations once this Regulation has been published, the tariff quotas with the serial numbers 09.4672, 09.4627, 09.4630, 09.4633 and 09.4771 should be administered in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.
(5) Repayment of import duties on products of groups 19, 21, 23, 24, 28, 30, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39 and 43 and hatching eggs of group 25 listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1899/97 as it existed before the entry into force of this Regulation and imported under licences used from 1 July 2000 falls within the scope of Articles 878 to 898 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.
(6) To limit the potential trade problems that might temporarily arise from the parallel existence of two different management procedures for some tariff quotas in the poultrymeat sector, i.e. management via the quarterly issue of import licences and management according to the "first come first served" principle in line with Article 308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, import licence holders should be given the possibility of cancellation with release of the security.
(7) A deadline should be laid down for the submission of request for cancellation, giving traders a reasonable time for submission.
(8) This Regulation should be applied from 1 July 2000 in parallel with Regulations (EC) No 2290/2000, (EC) No 2433/2000, (EC) No 2434/2000 and (EC) No 2435/2000.
(9) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs,