EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 31.3.2001 L91/70
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 659/2001
of 30 March 2001
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)No1667/2000(2),
andinparticularthesecondsubparagraphofArticle13(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)Export possibilities exist for a quantity of15520 tonnes of rice to certain destinations. Theprocedure laid down in Article 7(4) of CommissionRegulation (EC) No 1162/95(
4), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2110/2000(5) should be used.
Account should be taken of this when the refunds arefixed.(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
Withtheexceptionofthequantityof15520 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 2001.(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 154, 15.6.1976, p. 11.
(4) OJ L 117, 24.5.1995, p. 2.
(5) OJ L 250, 5.10.2000, p. 23.
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ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.
Done at Brussels, 30 March 2001.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
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Productcode DestinationUnitof
measurementAmountof
refunds(1)Productcode DestinationUnitof
measurementAmountof
refunds(1)ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 30 March 2001 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and
suspending the issue of export licences
100620119000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100620139000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100620159000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100620179000 —EUR/t —
100620929000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100620949000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100620969000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100620989000 —EUR/t —
100630219000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100630239000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100630259000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100630279000 —EUR/t —
100630429000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100630449000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100630469000 R01 EUR/t 182,00
100630489000 —EUR/t —
100630619100 R01 EUR/t 227,00
R02 EUR/t 224,00
R03 EUR/t 229,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
021and023 EUR/t 224,00
100630619900 R01 EUR/t 227,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
100630639100 R01 EUR/t 227,00
R02 EUR/t 224,00
R03 EUR/t 229,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
021and023 EUR/t 224,00
100630639900 R01 EUR/t 227,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00100630659100 R01 EUR/t 227,00
R02 EUR/t 224,00
R03 EUR/t 229,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
021and023 EUR/t 224,00
100630659900 R01 EUR/t 227,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
100630679100 021and023 EUR/t 224,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
100630679900 064 EUR/t 197,00
100630929100 R01 EUR/t 227,00
R02 EUR/t 224,00
R03 EUR/t 229,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
021and023 EUR/t 224,00
100630929900 R01 EUR/t 227,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
100630949100 R01 EUR/t 227,00
R02 EUR/t 224,00
R03 EUR/t 229,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
021and023 EUR/t 224,00
100630949900 R01 EUR/t 227,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
100630969100 R01 EUR/t 227,00
R02 EUR/t 224,00
R03 EUR/t 229,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
021and023 EUR/t 224,00
100630969900 R01 EUR/t 227,00
A97 EUR/t 224,00
064 EUR/t 197,00
100630989100 021and023 EUR/t 224,00
100630989900 —EUR/t —
100640009000 —EUR/t —
(1) TheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofRegulation(EC)No1162/95appliestolicencesappliedforunderthatRegulationforthefollowingquantit ites,dependingon
destination:Destination R01: 3000tDestinations R02, R03: 2220tDestinations 021 and 023: 500tDestination 064: 9500tDestination A97: 300t.
NB:Theproductcodesandthe‘A’seriesdestinationcodesaresetoutinCommissionRegulation(EEC)No3846/87(OJL366,24.12.1987,p.1)as
amended.
The numeric destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2032/2000 (OJ L 243, 28.9.200, p. 14).
The other destinations are defined as follows:
R01 Switzerland, Liechtenstein, communes of Livigno and Campione d'Italia.
R02 Morocco,Algeria,Tunisia,Malta,Egypt,Israel,Lebanon,Libya,Syria,Ex-SpanishSahara,Cyprus,Jordan,Iraq,Iran,Yemen,Kuwait,United
Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, West Bank/Gaza Strip, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic,Slovenia,Slovakia,Norway,FaroeIslands,Iceland,Russia,Belarus,BosniaandHerzegovina,Croatia,Yugoslavia,FormerYugoslavRepublicofMacedonia,Albania,Romania,Bulgaria,Georgia,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Moldova,Ukraine,Kazakstan,Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan,Tajiki-stan, Kyrgyzstan.
R03 Colombia,Ecuador,Peru,Bolivia,Chile,Argentina,Uruguay,Paraguay,Brazil,Venezuela,Canada,Mexico,Guatemala,Honduras,ElSalvador,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Bermuda, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, A40, A11 exceptSuriname, Guyana, Madagascar.