EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 26.2.2000 L54/36
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 443/2000
of 25 February 2000
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)No2072/98(2),and
inparticularthesecondsubparagraphofArticle13(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)Exportpossibilitiesexistforaquantityof5015 tonnesofricetocertaindestinations.TheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofCommissionRegulation(EC)No1162/95(
4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1432/
1999(5) should be used. Account should be taken of
this when the refunds are fixed.(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
Withtheexceptionofthequantityof5015 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 March 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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ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.Done at Brussels, 25 February 2000.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
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03 156,00(2)01 147,00100630259000ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 25 February 2000 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and
suspending, the issue of export licences
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02 151,00(2)
01 117,00
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——01 117,00
04 151,00
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ofrefunds
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05 151,00100620969000Productcode
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04 151,0002 151,00(2)
01 147,0005 151,00
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2)01 147,00
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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 2733 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 473 t.
(
2) Forriceofdestinations02and03,refundsfixedundertheprocedurelaiddowninArticle7(4)ofRegulation(EC)No1162/95inrespectofatotalquantityof1009 t.
NB:The zones are those defined in the Annex to amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.01 117,00
10063098910005 151,0001 147,00(EUR/t)
01 147,00100630949100
01 147,00100620119000
04 151,00
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05 151,0004 151,00
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