L14/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 20. 1. 2000 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 115/2000 of 19 January 2000 on the issue of import licences for certain products falling within CN codes 1701, 1702, 1703 and 1704 and qualifying as ACP/OCT originating products THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Decision 91/482[EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the overseas countries and terri- tories with the European Community ('), (hereinafter referred to as ‘OCT Decision’), as last amended by Decision 97/803/ EC (), Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2553/97 of 17 December on rules for issuing import licences for certain products covered by CN-Codes 1701, 1702, 1703 and 1704 and qualifying as ACP/OCT (%), originating products, and in particular Article 5(3) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Article 108b(1) of the OCT Decision allows ACP/OCT cumulation of origin in the case of products falling within CN codes 1701, 1702, 1703 and 1704 up to an annual quantity of 3 000 tonnes of sugar; (2)  two applications have been submitted to the national authorities in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 2553/ 97 for the issue of import licences covering a total quantity exceeding the 3 000 tonnes allowed under the OCT Decision; (3)  Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2553/97 provides that, where licence applications cover annual quantities in excess of 3 000 tonnes of sugar, the Commission is to adopt a regulation fixing a single reducing coefficient to be applied to each application submitted and suspend the submission of further applications during the year in progress; 4 the Commission must therefore fix the reducing coeffi- cient for the issue of import licences and suspend submission of further licence applications for 2000, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Import licences covered by applications submitted under Artile 108b of the OCT Decision on 3 January 2000 for a quantity of 732,300 tonnes of sugar falling within CN code 1701 11 90 and on 6 January for a quantity of 3 000 tonnes of sugar falling within CN code 1701 99 10 shall be issued for 80,37939 % of the quantity applied for. Article 2 The submission of further applications for 2000 is suspended. Article 3 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica- tion 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, 19 January 2000. 0] L 263, 19.9.1991, p. 1. () O] L 329, 29.11.1997, p. 50. 0] L 349, 19.12.1997, p. 26. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission