EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 17.12.1999 L325/57
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2672/1999
of 16 December 1999
fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and suspending the issue of export licences
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22
December1995onthecommonorganisationofthemarketinrice(
1),aslastamendedbyRegulation(EC)No2072/98(2),and
inparticularthesecondsubparagraphofArticle13(3)and(15)thereof,
(1)Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpricesontheworldmarketfortheproductslistedinArticle1ofthatRegulationandpricesforthoseproductswithinthe Community may be covered by an export refund;
(2)Whereas Article 13(4) of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95,providesthatwhenrefundsarebeingfixedaccountmustbe taken of the existing situation and the future trendwithregardtopricesandavailabilitiesofriceandbrokenrice on the Community market on the one hand andpricesforriceandbrokenriceontheworldmarketonthe other; whereas the same Article provides that it isalso important to ensure equilibrium and the naturaldevelopmentofpricesandtradeonthericemarketand,furthermore, to take into account the economic aspectof the proposed exports and the need to avoid distur-bances of the Community market with limits resultingfrom agreements concluded in accordance with Article228 of the Treaty;
(3)Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1361/76(3)
lays down the maximum percentage of broken riceallowedinriceforwhichanexportrefundisfixedandspecifies the percentage by which that refund is to bereducedwheretheproportionofbrokenriceinthericeexported exceeds that maximum;
(4)Whereas export possibilities exist for a quantity of4974 t of rice to certain destinations; whereas theprocedure laid down in Article 7(4) of CommissionRegulation (EC) No 1162/95(
4), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1432/1999(5) should be used;
whereas account should be taken of this when therefunds are fixed;
(5)Whereas Article 13(5) of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95defines the specific criteria to be taken into accountwhentheexportrefundonriceandbrokenriceisbeing
calculated;
(6)Whereas the world market situation or the specificrequirements of certain markets may make it necessaryto vary the refund for certain products according todestination;
(7)Whereasaseparaterefundshouldbefixedforpackagedlonggrainricetoaccommodatecurrentdemandfortheproduct on certain markets;
(8)Whereastherefundmustbefixedatleastonceamonth;whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
(9)Whereasitfollowsfromapplyingtheserulesandcriteriato the present situation on the market in rice and inparticular to quotations or prices for rice and brokenrice within the Community and on the world market,thattherefundshouldbefixedassetoutintheAnnexhereto;
(10)Whereas,forthepurposesofadministeringthevolumerestrictionsresultingfromCommunitycommitmentsinthe context of the WTO, the issue of export licenceswith advance fixing of the refund should be restricted;
(11)Whereas the measures provided for in this RegulationareinaccordancewiththeopinionoftheManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 of
Regulation(EC)No3072/95withtheexceptionofthoselistedinparagraph1(c)ofthatArticle,exportedinthenaturalstate,shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Article 2
Withtheexceptionofthequantityof4974 tprovidedforin
theAnnex,theissueofexportlicenceswithadvancefixingofthe refund is suspended.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 December 1999.(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 154, 15.6.1976, p. 11.
(4) OJ L 117, 24.5.1995, p. 2.
(5) OJ L 166, 1.7.1999, p. 56.
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ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.Done at Brussels, 16 December 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
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03 132,00(2)01 123,00100630259000ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 16 December 1999 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and
suspending, the issue of export licences
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ofrefunds
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(1) The destinations are identified as follows:
01 Liechtenstein,Switzerland,thecommunesofLivignoandCampioned'Italia,refundsfixedundertheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofRegulation(EC)No1162/95
in respect of a total quantity of 1859 t of wholly milled rice equivalent,
02 Zones I, II, III, VI, excluding Turkey,03 Zones IV, V, VII (c), Canada and Zone VIII excluding Suriname, Guyana and Madagascar,04 DestinationsmentionedinArticle34ofamendedCommissionRegulation(EEC)No3665/87,refundsfixedundertheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofRegulation
(EC) No 1162/95 in respect of a total quantity of 900 t,
05 Ceuta and Melilla, refunds fixed under the procedure laid down in Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 in respect of a total quantity of 702 t.
(
2) Forriceofdestinations02and03,refundsfixedundertheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofRegulation(EC)No1162/95inrespectofatotalquantityof1513 t.
NB:The zones are those defined in the Annex to amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.01 99,00
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