Council Regulation (EEC) No 3667/91 of 11 December 1991 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for meat of bovine animals, frozen, falling within CN code 0202 and products falling within CN code 0206 29 91 (1992)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3667/91  of 11 December 1991  opening and provding for the administration of a Community tariff quota for meat of bovine animals, frozen, falling within CN code 0202 and products falling within CN code 0206 29 91 (1992)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas, for meat of bovine animals, frozen, falling within CN code 0202 and products falling within CN code 0206 29 91, the Community has undertaken, within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), to open an annual Community  tariff quota at a rate of duty of 20 %, the quantity of which expressed in weight of boned or boneless meat, has been fixed at 53 000 tonnes; whereas that quota should accordingly be opened for 1992;
Whereas there should be a guarantee of, in particular, access by all interested traders within Community to the quota and of uninterrupted application of the rate laid down for that quota to all imports of the products in question until the quota is  exhausted;
Whereas the arrangements consists of the allocation by the Commission of the quantities available to the traditional operators and to operators engaging in trade in beef and veal, so as to give the latter progressive access to the benefits of those  arrangements; whereas, in view of this, the opportunities for access should be widened by increasing the proportion allocated to the latter operators; whereas, in order to ensure that their activities are genuine, only quantities of a certain size  representative of trade with third countries should be considered;
Whereas, in order to ensure the quota is fully utilized, it is necessary to set a time limit for lodging import licence applications and to allow the transfer of any quantities that have not been applied for at that date during the last quarter of 1992,  and their allocation to operators on the basis of the quantities remaining rather than the original allocation criteria;
Whereas the detailed rules for the application for this Regulation should be drawn up in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 27 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and  veal (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1628/91 (2),