Commission Regulation (EC) No 529/2007Show full title

Article 1

1. An import tariff quota totalling 53 000 tonnes expressed in weight of boneless meat is hereby opened for frozen meat of bovine animals covered by CN code 0202 and products covered by CN code 0206 29 91 for the period 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008.

The order number of the tariff quota shall be 09.4003.

2. The Common Custom Tariff duty applicable to the quota provided for in paragraph 1 shall be 20 % ad valorem.

Article 2

1. The import tariff quota referred to in Article 1(1) shall be managed by attributing import rights as a first step and issuing import licences as a second.

2. Regulations (EC) No 1445/95, (EC) No 1291/2000 and (EC) No 1301/2006 shall apply, save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.

Article 3

For the purposes of this Regulation,

(a)

100 kilograms of bone-in meat shall be equivalent to 77 kilograms of boneless meat;

(b)

‘frozen meat’ means meat that is frozen and has an internal temperature of – 12 °C or lower when it enters the customs territory of the Community.

Article 4

1. For the purposes of application of Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, applicants for import rights shall demonstrate that a quantity of beef falling under CN codes 0201, 0202, 0206 10 95 or 0206 29 91 has been imported by them or on their behalf under the relevant customs provisions, between 1 May 2006 and 30 April 2007 (hereinafter ‘reference quantity’).

2. A company formed by the merger of companies each having imported reference quantities may use those reference quantities as basis for its application.

3. In case where the reference quantity relates to imports into Bulgaria and Romania before 31 December 2006 the applicants for import rights shall demonstrate that the imports originated from establishments and third countries or parts of third countries referred to in Article 9 of Decision 79/542/EEC, in Article 8(1) of Directive 2002/99/EC and in Articles 11 and 12 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004.

The competent national authorities shall decide what is acceptable documentary evidence of compliance with the condition provided for in the first subparagraph.

Article 5

1. Applications for import rights shall be lodged no later than 13:00, Brussels time, on 1 June 2007.

The total quantity covered by applications for import rights submitted in the import tariff quota period may not exceed the applicant's reference quantities. Applications not complying with this rule shall be rejected by the competent authorities.

2. A security of EUR 6 per 100 kilogram boneless equivalent shall be lodged together with the application for import rights.

3. No later than 13:00, Brussels time, on the third Friday following the end of the period for the submission of applications referred to in paragraph 1, Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantities applied for.

Article 6

1. Import rights shall be awarded as from the 7th and no later than the 16th working day following the end of the period for the notifications referred to in Article 5(3).

2. If application of the allocation coefficient referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 results in fewer import rights to be allocated than had been applied for, the security lodged in accordance with Article 5(2) of this Regulation shall be released proportionally without delay.

Article 7

1. The release into free circulation of the quantities awarded under the quota referred to in Article 1(1) is subject to the presentation of an import licence.

2. Import licence applications shall cover the total quantity allocated. This obligation shall constitute a primary requirement within the meaning of Article 20(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2220/85.

Article 8

1. Licence applications may be lodged solely in the Member State where the applicant has applied and obtained import rights under the quota referred to in Article 1(1).

Each issuing of import licence shall result in a corresponding reduction of the import rights obtained and the security lodged in accordance with Article 5(2) shall be released proportionally without delay.

2. Import licences shall be issued on application by and in the name of the operator who has obtained the import rights.

3. Licence applications and import licences shall contain:

(a) in box 16, one of the following groups of CN codes:

• (a) 0202 10 00, 0202 20

• 0202 30, 0206 29 91;

(b) in box 20, the order number of the quota (09.4003) and one of the entries listed in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 9

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 May 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission