EN Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 12. 98 L 345/23
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2753/98
of 18 December 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 2547/98 (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
2072/98 (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 Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1103/
97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating to theintroduction of the euro (
6) provides that as from 1
January 1999, all references to the ecu in legal instru-ments are to be replaced by references to the euro at therate of EUR 1 to ECU 1; whereas, for the sake of clarity,the denomination ‘euro' should be used in this Regula-tion since it is to apply from 1 January 1999;
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
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1999.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 18 December 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 265, 30. 9. 1998, p. 4.
(5) OJ L 288, 25. 10. 1974, p. 1. (6) OJ L 162, 19. 6. 1997, p. 1.
EN Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 12. 98 L 345/24
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 18 December 1998 fixing the refunds applicable to cereal
and rice sector products supplied as Community and national food aid
(EUR/tonne)
Product code Refund
1001 10 00 9400 0,00
1001 90 99 9000 31,00
1002 00 00 9000 70,00
1003 00 90 9000 56,00
1004 00 00 9400 57,00
1005 90 00 9000 49,00
1006 30 92 9100 142,00
1006 30 92 9900 142,00
1006 30 94 9100 142,00
1006 30 94 9900 142,00
1006 30 96 9100 142,00
1006 30 96 9900 142,00
1006 30 98 9100 142,00
1006 30 98 9900 142,00
1006 30 65 9900 142,00
1006 40 00 9000 —
1007 00 90 9000 49,00
1101 00 15 9100 42,50
1101 00 15 9130 42,50
1102 20 10 9200 77,66
1102 20 10 9400 66,56
1102 30 00 9000 —
1102 90 10 9100 73,35
1103 11 10 9200 21,00
1103 11 90 9200 21,00
1103 13 10 9100 99,85
1103 14 00 9000 —
1104 12 90 9100 86,56
1104 21 50 9100 97,80
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.