31993R2877

21 . 10. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 262/49

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2877/93 of 20 October 1993 determining the extent to which applications lodged in October 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, licences may be granted for the full quantities applied for ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2697/93 Economic Community, states that if during 1993 the quantities for which applica­ tions for import licences have been submitted for the first, 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 2697/93 of 30 September 1993 laying down detailed maining quantities are to be added to the quantities in rules for the period 1 July 1993 to 30 June 1994 for the respect of the second period, the quantities available for application of the import arrangements for fresh, chilled the four countries concerned for the third period running or frozen beef provided for in the Additional Protocols to from 1 January to 31 March 1994 should accordingly be the Interim Association Agreements between the determined, Community and the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Hungary and the former Czech and Slovak Federal Repu­ blic ('), and in particular Article 3 (4) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas declarations have been submitted by both the Article 1 Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic informing the Communities that both the Czech Republic and the 1 . Import licences shall be granted for the full quanti­ Slovak Republic continue to assume all the obligations ties covered by applications submitted for the period deriving, inter alia, from the Interim Agreement between 1 October to 31 December 1993 under the import arran­ the Community and the Czech and Slovak Federal Repu­ gements referred to the Regulation (EEC) No 2697/93. blic upon the dissolution of the latter on 31 December 2. The quantities available for the period referred to in 1992 and in consequence the tariff quotas provided in the Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2697/93 running Interim Agreement should be made available without from 1 January to 31 March 1994 amount to : distinction to products originating in the Czech Republic or in the Slovak Republic ; — 3 150,0 tonnes for meat originating in Poland, — 2 599,9 tonnes for meat originating in Hungary, Whereas Article 1 (1 ) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) — 1 726,1 tonnes for meat originating in the territory of the former CSFR. No 2697/93 fixes the quantity of fresh, chilled and frozen beef originating in Poland, Hungary and the territory of the former CSFR which may be imported under special Article 2 conditions in respect of the period 1 October to 31 December 1993 ; whereas the quantities covered by This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 October import licence applications are such that import 1993 .

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

Done at Brussels, 20 October 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

0) OJ No L 245, 1 . 10 . 1993, p. 75.