EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 25.6.1999 L159/43
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1345/1999
of 24 June 1999
fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and suspending the issue of
exportlicences
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
HavingregardtoCouncilRegulation(EC)No3072/95of
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of themarketinrice(
1),aslastamendedbyRegulation(EC)No
2072/98(2),andinparticularthesecondsubparagraphof
Article 13(3) and (15) thereof,
Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95
providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpricesontheworldmarketfortheproductslistedinArticle1ofthatRegulationandpricesforthoseproductswithintheCommunity may be covered by an export refund;
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 ontheother;whereasthesameArticleprovidesthatitisalsoimportanttoensureequilibriumandthenaturaldevelop-mentofpricesandtradeonthericemarketand,further-more, to take into account the economic aspect of theproposed exports and the need to avoid disturbances oftheCommunitymarketwithlimitsresultingfromagree-ments concluded in accordance with Article 228 of theTreaty;
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;
Whereasexportpossibilitiesexistforaquantityof1566t
ofricetocertaindestinations;whereastheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofCommissionRegulation(EC)No1162/95(
4),aslastamendedbyRegulation(EC)No444/
98(5)shouldbeused;whereasaccountshouldbetakenof
this when the refunds are fixed;
Whereas Article 13(5) of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95
definesthespecificcriteriatobetakenintoaccountwhentheexportrefundonriceandbrokenriceisbeingcalcu-
lated;
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirementsofcertainmarketsmaymakeitnecessarytovarytherefundforcertainproductsaccordingtodestina-tion;
Whereas a separate refund should be fixed for packaged
long grain rice to accommodate current demand for theproduct on certain markets;
Whereastherefundmustbefixedatleastonceamonth;
whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
Whereasitfollowsfromapplyingtheserulesandcriteria
to the present situation on the market in rice and inparticulartoquotationsorpricesforriceandbrokenricewithintheCommunityandontheworldmarket,thattherefund should be fixed as set out in the Annex hereto;
Whereas, for the purposes of administering the volume
restrictions resulting from Community commitments inthecontextoftheWTO,theissueofexportlicenceswithadvance fixing of the refund should be restricted;
WhereasthemeasuresprovidedforinthisRegulationare
in accordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
TheexportrefundsontheproductslistedinArticle1of
Regulation(EC)No3072/95withtheexceptionofthoselisted in paragraph 1(c) of that Article, exported in thenatural state, shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Article 2
Withtheexceptionofthequantityof1566tprovidedfor
in the Annex, the issue of export licences with advancefixing of the refund is suspended.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 June 1999.(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 56, 26.2.1998, p. 12.
EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 25.6.1999 L159/44
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 24 June 1999.
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 24 June 1999 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken
rice and suspending, the issue of export licences
100620119000 01 
100620139000 01 
100620159000 01 
100620179000 
100620929000 01 
100620949000 01 
100620969000 01 
100620989000 
100630219000 01 
100630239000 01 
100630259000 01 
100630279000 
100630429000 01 
100630449000 01 
100630469000 01 
100630489000 
100630619100 01 
02 80,00(2)
03 85,00(2)
04 
05 
100630619900 01 
04 
100630639100 01 
02 80,00(2)
03 85,00(2)
04 
05 
100630639900 01 
04 
100630659100 01 
02 80,00(2)
03 85,00(2)
04 
05 100630659900 01 
04 
100630679100 05 
100630679900 
100630929100 01 
02 80,00(2)
03 85,00(2)
04 
05 
100630929900 01 
04 
100630949100 01 
02 80,00(2)
03 85,00(2)
04 
05 
100630949900 01 
04 
100630969100 01 
02 80,00(2)
03 85,00(2)
04 
05 
100630969900 01 
04 
100630989100 05 
100630989900 
100640009000 
(1) The destinations are identified as follows:
01 Liechtenstein, Switzerland, the communes of Livigno and Campione d’Italia,
02 Zones I, II, III, VI, excluding Turkey,
03 Zones IV, V, VII (c), Canada and Zone VIII excluding Suriname, Guyana and Madagascar,
04 Destinations mentioned in Article 34 of amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87,
05 Ceuta and Melilla.
(2) Forriceofdestinations02and03,refundsfixedundertheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofRegulation(EC)No1162/95inrespectofatotalquant ityof
1566 t.
NB:The zones are those defined in the Annex to amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.