31993R0948

No L 97/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 23 . 4. 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 948/93 of 22 April 1993 determining the extent to which applications lodged in April 1993 for import licences for fresh, chilled or frozen beef under the import arrangements provided for in the Interim Agreements concluded by the Community with the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR) can be accepted

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3589/92 states that if during 1993 the quantities for which applica­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tions for import licences have been submitted for the first, Economic Community, second or third period specified in paragraph 2 of the Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) Article are less than the quantities available, the re­ No 3589/92 of 11 December 1992 laying down detailed maining quantities are to be added to the quantities in rules for the application of the import arrangements for respect of the second period, the quantities available for fresh, chilled or frozen beef provided for in the Interim the four countries concerned for the third period running Association Agreements between the Community and the from 1 July to 30 September 1993 should accordingly be Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary and the determined, Czech and Slovak Federal Republic ('), and in particular Article 3 (4) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas declarations have been submitted by both the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic informing the Article 1 Communities that both the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic continue to assume all the obligations 1 . Import licences shall be granted for the full quanti­ deriving, inter alia, from the Interim Agreement between ties covered by applications submitted for the period the Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Repu­ 1 April to 30 June 1993 under the import arrangements blic upon the dissolution of the latter on 31 December referred to the Regulation (EEC) No 3589/92. 1992 and in consequence the tariff quotas provided in the Interim Agreement should be made available without 2. The quantities available for the period referred to in distinction to products originating in the Czech Republic Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3589/92 running from 1 July to 30 September 1993 amount to : or in the Slovak Republic ; — 3 208,6 tonnes for meat originating in Poland, Whereas Article 1 (1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3589/92 fixes the quantity of fresh, chilled and frozen — 3 706,0 tonnes for meat originating in Hungary, beef originating in Poland, Hungary and the territory of — 2 151,5 tonnes for meat originating in the territory of the former CSFR which may be imported under special the former CSFR. conditions in respect of the period 1 April to 30 June 1993 ; whereas the quantities covered by import licence Article 2 applications are such that import licences may be granted for the full quantities applied for ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 April 1 993.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 April 1993.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 364, 12. 12. 1992, p. 28 .