No L 142/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 6. 93 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1443/93 of 10 June 1993 on transitional measures for the application of the arrangements for importing bananas into the Community in 1993 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 (') of 13 February 1993, on the common organization of the market in bananas, and in particular Articles 19, 20 and 30 thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1442/93 laying down detailed rules for the application of the arrangements for importing bananas into the Commu- nity (%, establishes the detailed provisions for the opera- tion of the Community banana market; Whereas trnasitional measures are necessary to ensure that operators can be given a provisional quantity allocated from the tariff quota to be used from 1 July 1993; Whereas in order to determine operators’ provisional quantity allocated a reduction coefficient is to be applied ; whereas the reduction coefficients are determined from an estimate of total reference quantities for both Category A and Category B operators, based on the volume of trade in the reference period as recorded by Eurostat statistics, and the likely volume of licence required in the period 1 July to 30 September, based on past trade volumes in the same period ; Whereas transitional measures are necessary to ensure that licences to import traditional ACP bananas can be available on 1 July 1993; Whereas bananas which were already in transit to the Community before 23 June 1993, but which arrive in the Community on or after 1 July 1993 shall be exempt from licensing requirements ; Whereas the Management Committee for Bananas, failed to deliver an opinion within the time allowed by its chairman, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1.  This Regulation establishes transitional measures for the application of the regime for the import of bananas into the Community in 1993. () OJ No L 47, 25. 2. 1993, p. 1. () See page 6 of this Official Journal. 2. The provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/93 shall apply unless otherwise specified in this Regulation. TITLE 1 MANAGEMENT OF THE TARIFF QUOTA Article 2 1. Category A and Category B operators, as defined in Regulation (EEC)} No 1442/93, shall make their applica- tions for registration and the competent authorities of the Member States shall establish lists of operators in the manner described in Article 4, paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of the said Regulation, by 7 July 1993. Operators shall provide information on the volume of bananas they marketed in the years 1989, 1990 and 1991. 2. Category C operators, as defined in the Regulation (EEC) No 1442/93 shall register with a competent -autho- rities in a Member State of their choice by 24 June 1993. The competent authorities of the Member States shall inform the Commission of the number of Category C operators registered with them by 25 June 1993. Article 3 1. On the basis of the information received in accor- dance with Article 2 (1), the competent authorities of the Member States shall calculate a provisional reference quantity for each operator according to Article 5 of Regu- lation (EEC) No 1442/93 The Competent Authorities shall send to the Commission no later than 16 July 1993 the total of those provisional reference quantities for the operators registered with them. 2. The competent authorities of the Member States shall verify, in accordance with Articles 4 (3), 7 and 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/93, the volumes of bananas marketed which have been notified by operators in response to Article 2 (1) by 17 August 1993. On the basis of those verified quantities the competent authorities shall recalculate reference quantities for each operator. The -competent authorities shall send to the Commission no later than 20 August 1993 the total of those reference quantities for the operators registered with them and the total volumes of trade in each of the categories described in Article 3 of the said Regulation.