EN Official Journal of the European Communities 9. 5. 98 L 137/3
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 977/98
of 8 May 1998
fixing the refunds applicable to cereal and rice sector products supplied as
Community and national food aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of themarket in cereals (
1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular the third
subparagraph of Article 13(2) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of themarket in rice (
3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
192/98 (4), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2681/
74 of 21 October 1974 on Community financing ofexpenditure incurred in respect of the supply of agricul-tural products as food aid (
5) lays down that the portion of
the expenditure corresponding to the export refunds onthe products in question fixed under Community rules isto be charged to the European Agricultural Guidance andGuarantee Fund, Guarantee Section;
Whereas, in order to make it easier to draw up and
manage the budget for Community food aid actions andto enable the Member States to know the extent ofCommunity participation in the financing of nationalfood aid actions, the level of the refunds granted for theseactions should be determined;
Whereas the general and implementing rules provided for
in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 and inArticle 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 on exportrefunds are applicable mutatis mutandis to the above-
mentioned operations;
Whereas the specific criteria to be used for calculating the
export refund on rice are set out in Article 13 of Regula-tion (EC) No 3072/95;
Whereas the measures provided for this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
For Community and national food aid operations under
international agreements or other supplementaryprogrammes, and other Community free supply measures,the refunds applicable to cereals and rice sector productsshall be as set out in the Annex.
Article 2
For Community food aid operations for North Korea a
refund of ECU 347/tonne is fixed for products fallingwithin CN code 1006 30.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 May 1998.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 8 May 1998.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(4) OJ L 20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 16.
(5) OJ L 288, 25. 10. 1974, p. 1.
EN Official Journal of the European Communities 9. 5. 98 L 137/4
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 8 May 1998 fixing the refunds applicable to cereal and rice
sector products supplied as Community and national food aid
(ECU/tonne)
Product code Refund
1001 10 00 9400 0
1001 90 99 9000 21,00
1002 00 00 9000 35,00
1003 00 90 9000 54,00
1004 00 00 9400 45,00
1005 90 00 9000 31,00
1006 30 92 9100 137,00
1006 30 92 9900 137,00
1006 30 94 9100 137,00
1006 30 94 9900 137,00
1006 30 96 9100 137,00
1006 30 96 9900 137,00
1006 30 98 9100 137,00
1006 30 98 9900 137,00
1006 40 00 9000 ¾
1007 00 90 9000 31,00
1101 00 15 9100 23,00
1101 00 15 9130 23,00
1102 20 10 9200 39,51
1102 20 10 9400 33,86
1102 30 00 9000 ¾
1102 90 10 9100 62,27
1103 11 10 9200 0
1103 11 90 9200 0
1103 13 10 9100 50,80
1103 14 00 9000 ¾
1104 12 90 9100 44,36
1104 21 50 9100 70,78
NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ L 366, 24.12. 1987, p. 1), amended.