EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 1.4.2000 L81/47
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 696/2000
of 31 March 2000
fixingthe export refunds on rice and broken rice and suspendingthe 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,
Whereas:
(1)Article13ofRegulation(EC)No3072/95providesthat
thedifferencebetweenquotationsorpricesontheworldmarketfortheproductslistedinArticle1ofthatRegu-lation and prices for those products within theCommunity may be covered by an export refund.
(2)Article 13(4) of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95, providesthatwhenrefundsarebeingfixedaccountmustbetakenoftheexistingsituationandthefuturetrendwithregardtopricesandavailabilitiesofriceandbrokenriceontheCommunitymarketontheonehandandpricesforriceandbrokenriceontheworldmarketontheother.ThesameArticleprovidesthatitisalsoimportanttoensureequilibrium and the natural development of prices andtradeonthericemarketand,furthermore,totakeintoaccount the economic aspect of the proposed exportsand the need to avoid disturbances of the Communitymarketwithlimitsresultingfromagreementsconcludedin accordance with Article 300 of the Treaty.
(3)CommissionRegulation(EEC)No1361/76(3)laysdown
themaximumpercentageofbrokenriceallowedinricefor which an export refund is fixed and specifies thepercentagebywhichthatrefundistobereducedwherethe proportion of broken rice in the rice exportedexceeds that maximum.
(4)Exportpossibilitiesexistforaquantityof4000 tonnesofricetocertaindestinations.TheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofCommissionRegulation(EC)No1162/95(
4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1432/
1999(5) should be used. Account should be taken of
this when the refunds are fixed.(5)Article13(5)ofRegulation(EC)No3072/95definesthespecific criteria to be taken into account when theexport refund on rice and broken rice is being calcu-lated.
(6)Theworldmarketsituationorthespecificrequirementsof certain markets may make it necessary to vary therefund for certain products according to destination.
(7)A separate refund should be fixed for packaged longgrain rice to accommodate current demand for theproduct on certain markets.
(8)Therefundmustbefixedatleastonceamonth;whereasit may be altered in the intervening period.
(9)It follows from applying these rules and criteria to thepresentsituationonthemarketinriceandinparticularto quotations or prices for rice and broken rice withinthe Community and on the world market, that therefund should be fixed as set out in the Annex hereto.
(10)For the purposes of administering the volume restric-tions resulting from Community commitments in thecontext of the WTO, the issue of export licences withadvance fixing of the refund should be restricted.
(11)The measures provided for in this Regulation are inaccordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee 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
Withtheexceptionofthequantityof4000 tonnesprovided
for in the Annex, the issue of export licences with advancefixing of the refund is suspended.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 2000.(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, 31 March 2000.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(EUR/t)
Productcode Destination(1)Amount
ofrefunds(EUR/t)
Productcode Destination(1)Amount
ofrefundsANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 31 March 2000 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and
suspending, the issue of export licences
100620119000 01 117,00
100620139000 01 117,00
100620159000 01 117,00
100620179000 ——
100620929000 01 117,00
100620949000 01 117,00
100620969000 01 117,00
100620989000 ——
100630219000 01 117,00
100630239000 01 117,00
100630259000 01 117,00
100630279000 ——
100630429000 01 117,00
100630449000 01 117,00
100630469000 01 117,00
100630489000 ——
100630619100 01 147,00
02 151,00(2)
03 156,00(2)
04 151,00
05 151,00
100630619900 01 147,00
04 151,00
100630639100 01 147,00
02 151,00(2)
03 156,00(2)
04 151,00
05 151,00
100630639900 01 147,00
04 151,00
100630659100 01 147,00
02 151,00(2)
03 156,00(2)
04 151,00
05 151,00100630659900 01 147,00
04 151,00
100630679100 05 151,00
100630679900 ——
100630929100 01 147,00
02 151,00(2)
03 156,00(2)
04 151,00
05 151,00
100630929900 01 147,00
04 151,00
100630949100 01 147,00
02 151,00(2)
03 156,00(2)
04 151,00
05 151,00
100630949900 01 147,00
04 151,00
100630969100 01 147,00
02 151,00(2)
03 156,00(2)
04 151,00
05 151,00
100630969900 01 147,00
04 151,00
100630989100 05 151,00
100630989900 ——
100640009000 ——
(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 1079 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 800 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 400 t.
(
2) Forriceofdestinations02and03,refundsfixedundertheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofRegulation(EC)No1162/95inrespectofatotalquantityof1721 t.
NB:The zones are those defined in the Annex to amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.