Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 (repealed)Show full title

Article 29 U.K.

1. Tariff quotas for the products listed in Article 1 resulting from agreements concluded in accordance with Article 300 of the Treaty or from any other act of the Council shall be opened and administered in accordance with detailed rules adopted under the procedure laid down in Article 42.

2. Quotas may by administered by applying one of the following methods or a combination of them:

• method based on the chronological order of the lodging of applications (using the ‘first come, first served’ principle),

• method of distribution in proportion to the quantities requested when the applications were lodged (using the ‘simultaneous examination’ method),

• method based on taking traditional trade patterns into account (using the ‘traditional importers/new arrivals’ method).

Other appropriate methods may be adopted.

They shall avoid any discrimination between the operators concerned.

3. The method of administration adopted shall, where appropriate, give due weight to the supply requirements on the Community market and the need to safeguard the equilibrium of that market, whilst at the same time possibly drawing on methods which may have been applied in the past to quotas corresponding to those referred to in paragraph 1, without prejudice to the rights resulting from agreements concluded in the framework of the Uruguay Round trade negotiations.

4. The detailed rules referred to in paragraph 1 shall provide for annual quotas, suitably phased over the year, if necessary, to be opened, determine the administrative method to be applied and, where appropriate, include provisions regarding:

(a) guarantees covering the nature, provenance and origin of the product;

(b) recognition of the document used for verifying the guarantees referred to in (a); and

(c) the conditions under which import licences are issued and their term of validity.