20.6.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 159/26
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 521/2012
of 19 June 2012
amending Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009 as regards export licences for cheese to be exported to the United States of America under certain GATT quotas
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular Article 170 and Article 171(1), in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Section 2 of Chapter III of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009 of 27 November 2009 laying down special detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards export licences and export refunds for milk and milk products (2) contains the conditions for the applicants to apply for export licences and the procedure of allocation of those licences for exports under the quota to the United States.
(2) In accordance with Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 789/2011 of 5 August 2011 opening the procedure for the allocation of export licences for cheese to be exported to the United States of America in 2012 under certain GATT quotas (3), was adopted for 2012 quota year.
(3) For sake of administrative simplification, it is appropriate to integrate into Section 2 of Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009 a permanent mechanism as regards the opening of a yearly procedure for the allocation of export licences, instead of adopting a separate Regulation each year.
(4) Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,
Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009 is amended as follows:
(1) in Chapter III, Section 2 is replaced by the following:
(a) the additional quota under the Agriculture Agreement;
(b) the tariff quotas originally resulting from the Tokyo Round and granted to Austria, Finland and Sweden by the United States in Uruguay Round list XX;
(c) the tariff quotas originally resulting from the Uruguay Round and granted to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia by the United States in Uruguay Round list XX.
Quota for … (year) — Section 2 of Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009.
Quota identification: …”
(a) the designation of the product group covered by the United States quota in accordance with Additional Notes 16 to 23 and 25 in Chapter 4 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States;
(b) the product names in accordance with the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States;
(c) the name and address of the importer in the United States designated by the applicant.
(a) a list of applicants, their name, address and reference number;
(b) the quantities applied for by each applicant broken down by the product code of the Combined Nomenclature and by their code in accordance with the Harmonised Tariff Schedule of the United States of America;
(c) the name, address and reference number of the importer designated by the applicant.
(2) Annexes IIa and IIb, the text of which is set out in the Annex to this Regulation, are inserted.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply to export licences applied for as from 1 September 2012 for products to be exported in the 2013 quota year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.