Council Regulation (EC) No 965/97 of 26 May 1997 opening and providing for the management of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain live fish originating in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 965/97
• Articles: 7

Article 1

Import duties on products listed in the Annex originating in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia are hereby suspended at the levels and within the limits of the annual Community tariff quotas set for each.

Article 2

The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed by the Commission, which may take any appropriate administrative measures to ensure that they are managed efficiently.

Article 3

Where an importer presents a declaration for release for free circulation in a Member State, applying to take advantage of the preferential arrangements, and for a product covered by this Regulation and the entry is accepted by the customs authorities, the Member State concerned shall, by notifying the Commission, draw an amount corresponding to its requirements from the appropriate quota volume.

Requests for drawings, indicating the date on which the entries were accepted, must be sent to the Commission without delay.

Drawings shall be granted by the Commission in chronological order of the dates on which the customs authorities of the Member States concerned accepted the entries for release for free circulation, to the extent that the available balance so permits.

If a Member State does not use a drawing in full it shall return any unused portion to the corresponding quota volume as soon as possible.

If the quantities requested are greater than the available balance of the quota volume, the balance shall be allocated among applicants on a pro rata basis. The Commission shall inform the Member States of the drawings made.

Article 4

Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the products in question have equal and continuous access to the quotas for as long as the balance of the relevant quota volume so permits.

Article 5

The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.

Article 6

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

It shall apply from 1 January 1997.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 May 1997.

For the Council

The President

W. SORGDRAGER

(1) OJ No L 272, 22. 10. 1994, p. 50.

(2) OJ No L 294, 15. 11. 1994, p. 27.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

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