EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 8.1.2000 L5/36
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 35/2000
of 7 January 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,
(1)Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpriceson the world market for the products listed in Article 1of that Regulation and prices for those products withinthe 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 andprices for rice and broken rice on the world market onthe 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 riceallowed in rice for which an export refund is fixed andspecifies the percentage by which that refund is to bereduced where the proportion of broken rice in the riceexported exceeds that maximum;
(4)Whereas export possibilities exist for a quantity of7938 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)Whereas a separate refund should be fixed for packagedlonggrainricetoaccommodatecurrentdemandfortheproduct 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,that the refund should be fixed as set out in the Annexhereto;
(10)Whereas, for the purposes of administering the volumerestrictions resulting from Community commitments inthe 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 Regulationare in accordance 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)No3072/95withtheexceptionofthoselistedin paragraph 1(c) of that Article, exported in the natural state,shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Article 2
With the exception of the quantity of 7938 t provided for in
the Annex, the issue of export licences with advance fixing ofthe refund is suspended.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 January 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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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 7 January 2000.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
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03 135,00(2)01 132,00100630259000ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 7 January 2000 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and
suspending, the issue of export licences
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——01 105,00
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ofrefunds
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2)01 132,00
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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 5000 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 696 t.
(
2) Forriceofdestinations 02and03,refundsfixedundertheprocedure laiddowninArticle7(4)ofRegulation (EC)No1162/95inrespectofatotalquantityof1442 t.
NB:The zones are those defined in the Annex to amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.01 105,00
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