Commission Regulation (EC) No 2513/96 of 23 December 1996 amending Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94 under the Community tariff quotas provided for in the Europe Agreements pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2513/96 of 23 December 1996 amending Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and (EC) No 1559/94 under the Community tariff quotas provided for in the Europe Agreements pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 3066/95
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), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2490/96 (2), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in eggs (3), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1516/96 (4), and in particular Article 22 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in poultrymeat (5), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2916/96 (6), and in particular Article 22 thereof,
Whereas concessions for certain products in the eggs and poultrymeat sectors have been granted under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2699/93 of 30 September 1993 laying down detailed rules for the application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors of the arrangements provided for in the Interim Agreements between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary and the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (7), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1236/96 (8) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1559/94 of 30 June 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application in the poultrymeat and egg sectors of the arrangements provided for in the Interim Agreements between the Community, of the one part and Bulgaria and Romania, of the other part (9), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1236/96;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 3066/95 opened annual quotas but only for the period from 1 January to 31 December 1996; whereas, in order to ensure the continuity of the import regime, it is appropriate to extend the tariff quotas allowed by Regulations (EEC) No 2699/93 and No 1559/94;
Whereas, the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Poultrymeat and Eggs concerned,