31.5.2006 Official Journal of the European Union L 1447 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 800/2006 of 30 May 2006 opening and providing for the administration of an import tariff quota for young male bovine animals for fattening (1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 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 ('), and in particular Article 32(1) thereof, Whereas: (4) The WTO schedule CXL requires the Community to open an annual import tariff quota for 169 000 head of young male bovine animals for fattening. However, as a result of negotiations which led to the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the United States of America pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 (3), approved by Council Decision 2006/333/EC (}), the Community undertook to incorporate in its schedule for all Member States an adjustment of that import tariff quota. It is appropriate to lay down in the detailed rules for the management of this tariff quota that for the period from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 the available quantity should be phased over the year in a suitable manner within the meaning of Article 32(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999. In view of the forthcoming entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union, without prejudice to Article 39 of that Treaty, and in order to enable operators of those countries to benefit from this quota as of the date of their accession, the quota period should be divided into two sub-periods and the quantity available under this quota should be staggered over these periods, taking into account the traditional trade patterns between the Community and the supplier countries within this quota. In order to provide a more equal access to the quota while ensuring a commercially viable number of (") OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2). () O] L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 15. () O] L 124, 11.5.2006, p. 13. animals per application, each application of import licences should respect a minimum and a maximum number of heads. With a view to preventing speculation, the quantities available within the quota should be made accessible to operators able to show that they are genuinely engaged in import of a significant scale from third countries. In consideration of this and in order to ensure efficient management, the traders concerned should be required to have imported a minimum of 50 animals during the period from 1 May 2005 to 30 April 2006 given that a consignment of 50 animals may be considered to be a commercial viable consignment. To enable such criteria to be checked, applications should be presented in the Member State where the importer is entered in a VAT register. In order to prevent speculation, importers no longer involved in trade in live bovine animals at 1 January 2006 should be denied access to the quota and licences should not be transferable. Provision should be made for quantities for which licence applications may be requested to be allocated after a period of consideration and, where appropriate, once a uniform allocation coefficient has been applied. The arrangements should be managed using import licences. To this end, rules should be laid down on the submission of applications and the information to be given on applications and licences, where necessary by addition to or by way of derogation from certain provisions of 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 Regulation (EEC) No 2377/80 (¥ and of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 of 9 June 2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products (). (Y OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 35. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1118/2004 (O] L 217, 17.6.2004, p 10). (®) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 4102006 (O] L 71, 10.3.2006, p. 7).