31989R3617

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3617/89

of 1 December 1989

concerning the quantities of sheepmeat and goatmeat products which may be imported from Romania during 1989

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 84/633/EEC of 11 December 1984 authorizing the Commission, within the context of the voluntary restraint agreements on trade in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector between the Community and 12 non-member States, to convert, for the purposes of the smooth operation of trade and within the limits agreed, live animal quantities into fresh or chilled meat quantities or such latter quantities into the former (1), and in particular Article 1 (1) thereof;

Whereas, under an Agreement concluded with the Community, Romania has undertaken to restrict its exports of sheepmeat and goatmeat to the Community to annual quantities of 475 tonnes of live animals, expressed as carcase weight bone-in, and of 75 tonnes of fresh and chilled meat;

Whereas Romania has asked the Community to convert the 75 tonnes of fresh and chilled meat that may be exported to the Community in 1989 into 75 tonnes of live animals expressed as carcase weight bone-in; whereas the extremely limited quantity covered by the request will not disturb the Community market; whereas the market situation is such that the application can be granted;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sheep and Goats,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The quantity of live sheep and goats falling within CN codes 0104 10 90 and 0104 20 90 that may be imported from Romania in 1989, under the Agreement concluded with that country, shall be 550 tonnes expressed as carcase weight bone-in.

The quantity of fresh and chilled sheepmeat and goatmeat falling within CN code ex 0204, that may be imported from Romania in 1989 under the Agreement concluded with that country, shall be nil.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 1 December 1989.

For the Commission

Ray MAC SHARRY

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 331, 19. 12. 1984, p. 32.