31988R0273

No L 26/60 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 1 . 88

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 273/88 of 29 January 1988 on the issue of import licences for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas Article 15 (6) (d) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2377/80 (3), as last amended by Regulation Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European (EEC) No 3434/87 (4), provides that the quantities applied Economic Community, for may be reduced ; whereas the applications submitted Having regard to Council Regulation. (EEC) No 233/88 of relate to total quantities which exceed the quantities avai­ 25 January 1988 opening a Community tariff quota for lable ; whereas, under those circumstances an in order to high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal of codes ensure an equitable distribution of the available quanti­ 0201 and 0202 and products of codes 0206 10 95 and ties, the quantities applied for should be reduced propor­ 0206 29 91 of the combined nomenclature (1988) ('), and tionally, in particular Article 2 thereof, Whereas, pending the Council Decision on the fixation of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : certain quotas in the beef and veal sector, the Commis­ sion has re-established the issuing of licences by Regula­ Article 1 tion (EEC) No 95/88 (2) ; whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 233/88, the Council fixed the quota of high-quality All applications for import licences in respect of the first beef and veal at 34 300 tonnes ; quarter of 1988 for high-quality fresh, chilled or frozen Whereas Article 1 (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 95/88 beef and veal as referred to in Article 12 of Regulation provides that the licences are to be issued on 1 February (EEC) No 2377/80 shall be met up to 0,1088% of the 1988 for meat originating in the United States of America quantity applied for. and Canada ; whereas, consequently, without prejudice to the total quantity which will be fixed for those products, a Article 2 decision should be made on applications submitted in respect of quantities of up to 2 500 tonnes ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1988 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 29 January 1988 .

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

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