Order — ECLI:EU:C:2003:122
Date: 2003-02-27
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;Cereals;Monetary measures in the field of agriculture
Concepts: Export refunds
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Belgium

SUMMARY — CASE C-82/02 
Summary of the Order 
Agriculture — Common organisation of the markets — Export refunds — Conditions 
of payment — Leaving the geographical territory of the Community — Definition 
(Commission Regulation No 2730/79, Art. 9(1)) 
Article 9(1) of Regulation No 2730/79, 
which makes the payment of the export 
refund subject to the condition that, as 
matters stand, the product must have left 
the geographical territory of the Commu­
nity, must be interpreted as meaning that 
the expression 'geographical territory of the 
Community' refers to a physical concept 
and that the requirement that the product 
in respect of which export refunds have 
been applied for must have left the geo­
graphical territory of the Community is not 
satisfied either by placing the product 
under customs control or by bringing it 
within the customs warehousing procedure. 
(see para. 46, operative part) 
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