EN Official Journal of the European Communities 9. 1. 1999 L 5/43
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 32/1999
of 8 January 1999
amending Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 laying down the reduced agricultural
components and additional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1998 tothe importation into the Community of goods covered by Council Regulation
(EC) No 3448/93 under Agreements with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of
6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangementsapplicable to certain goods resulting from the processingof agricultural products (
1), as last amended by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 2491/98 (2), and in particular
Article 7 thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 (3)
laid down the reduced agricultural components and addi-tional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1998to the importation into the Community of goods coveredby Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under Agreements withEstonia, Latvia and Lithuania;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 26/1999 of 21
December 1998 adopting autonomous and transitionalmeasures for Europe Agreements with Lithuania, Latviaand Estonia in certain processed agricultural products (
4),
lays down in Annex II, for the period from 1 January to30 June 1999, the basic amounts to be taken into consid-eration in calculating the reduced agricultural compo-nents applicable on importation from the countriescovered by that Regulation;
Whereas the basic amounts fixed by Regulation (EC) No
26/1999 are identical to those fixed by Council Regula-tion (EC) No 2621/97 (
5) for the period from 1 July to 31
December 1998; whereas therefore the amounts of thereduced agricultural components and additional dutiesestablished by Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 should be
extended until 30 June 1999;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/
97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating to theintroduction of the euro (
6), lays down that from 1 January
1999 every reference in a legal instrument to the ECUshall be replaced by a reference to the euro at a rate ofEUR 1 to ECU 1; whereas, for reasons of clarity, it isappropriate to use the term ‘euro' in this Regulation,given that it is applicable from 1 January 1999,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 is amended as follows.1. In Article 1 and 3 and Annexes I to VI, the date ‘31
December 1998' is replaced by ‘30 June 1999'.
2. In Annexes I to VI, the term ‘ECU/100 kg' is replaced
by ‘EUR/100 kg'.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities .
It shall apply from 1 January to 30 June 1999.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 8 January 1999.
For the Commission
Martin BANGEMANN
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 318, 20. 12. 1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 309, 19. 11. 1998, p. 28.
(3) OJ L 197, 14. 7. 1998, p. 65.
(4) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
(5) OJ L 354, 30. 12. 1997, p. 1. (6) OJ L 162, 19. 6. 1997, p. 1.