3.8.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities L 206/9 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1429/2002 of 2 August 2002 establishing detailed rules for the application of the tariff quotas for beef and veal as laid down in Council Regulations (EC) No 1151/2002, (EC) No 1362/2002 and (EC) No 1361/2002 for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (6)  Provision should be made for quantities for which Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal (), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2345/2001 (3, and in particular Article 32(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) Council Regulations (EC) No 1151/2002, (EC) No 1362/ 2002 and (EC) No 1361/2002 of 27 June 2002, 22 July 2002 and 22 July 2002 establishing concessions in the form of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and providing for an adjustment, as an autono- mous and transitional measure, of certain agricultural concessions provided for in the Europe Agreement with Estonia (°), Latvia (*) and Lithuania (°) respectively opened certain annual tariff quotas for beef- and veal-based products. Imports under those quotas are exempt from the customs duties fixed in the Common Customs Tariff (CCT). The detailed rules for applying those quotas on a multiannual basis should be adopted for periods of 12 months starting on 1 July, hereinafter known as ‘import years’. (2)  To ensure orderly imports, the quantities should be stag- gered over different periods. ) In view of the risk of speculation inherent in these arrangements for beef and wveal, precise conditions should be laid down for access by operators. Verification of those conditions requires that applications should be submitted in the Member State in which the importer is listed in the VAT register. (4)  To ensure that all eligible operators have the fairest possible access to the arrangements, the number of applications per interested party should be restricted for each group of products for each Baltic country, and a maximum quantity which each import licence applica- tion may cover should be fixed. (5)  For a licence application per group of products, a minimum quantity should also be fixed so that the import of that quantity can be regarded as real and reli- able. 1 () OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21. () OJ L 315, 1.12.2001, p. 29. () OJL 170, 29.6.2002, p. 15. () OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 13. () OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 1. 5 licence applications may be requested to be allocated after a period of consideration and, where appropriate, once a uniform percentage reduction has been applied. (7)  Bearing in mind the provisions of the agreements intended to guarantee the origin of the products, provi- sion should be made for these arrangements to be managed using import licences. To that end, rules should be laid down on the submission of applications and on the information to be given on applications and licences, where appropriate, by derogating from or supplementing Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 of 9 June 2000 laying down common detailed rules for the appli- cation of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products (°), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 954/2002 (), and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 of 26 June 1995 on rules of application for import and export licences in the beef and veal sector and repealing Regula- tion (EEC) No 2377/80 (%), as last amended by Regula- tion (EC) No 2492/2001 (). (8)  To avoid speculation, import licences should not be transferable. (9)  The measures laid down in this Regulation are in accor- dance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Beef and Veal, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. On a multiannual basis, for periods running from 1 July to 30 June of the following year, hereinafter referred to as ‘import years’, the products referred to in Annex I originating in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania may be imported exempt from the customs duties fixed in the Common Customs Tariff under the tariff quotas laid down in Regulations (EC) No 1151/2002, (EC) No 1362/2002 and (EC) No 1361/2002 in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation. 2. For those quotas, the annual quantity of products is indi- cated in Annex I for each import year. 6 () OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1. () OJ L 147, 5.6.2002, p. 8. (¥ OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 35. () OJ L 337,20.12.2001, p. 18.