WRITTEN QUESTION No. 919/96 by Ulpu IIVARI to the Commission. Simplification of export subsidies for food products (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
Date: 1996-04-23
Institutions: European Parliament, IIVARI
Subjects: Finland, customs formalities, export, export refund, export subsidy, foodstuff, frontier region, simplification of formalities













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 919/96 by Ulpu IIVARI to the Commission. Simplification of export subsidies for food products (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)  


Official Journal C 345 , 15/11/1996 P. 0015 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-0919/96 by Ulpu Iivari (PSE) to the Commission (23 April 1996)Subject: Simplification of export subsidies for food productsFood products are exported from Finland to Russia with EU export subsidies. The consignments concerned can be very small, particularly in the case of those despatched to neighbouring regions, for example those supplied by meat processors direct to individual shops. Each consignment must be notified separately, which involves considerable paperwork. For example one Finnish food supplier had to complete a form concerning a consignment on which 1.43 Finnish marks was paid in export subsidy. The cost of processing the form is many times greater than this.In view of the above, what will the Commission do to simplify the inconvenient and costly bureaucracy involved in exporting foodstuffs to neighbouring areas of third countries so as to avoid the necessity of submitting a separate notification for each consignment?Supplementary answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission (10 July 1996)Further to its answer of 30 May 1996 ((OJ C 217, 26.7.1996, p. 128. )), the Commission is now able to provide the following information.It is possible for a Member State to allow the use of the simplified procedures in export declarations. With regard to such procedures, Article 76 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the common customs code ((OJ L 302, 19.10.1992. )) and Articles 253 and 279 to 287 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, laying down provisions for the implementation of the common customs code ((OJ L 253, 11.10.1993. )), establish the rules for incomplete declarations, simplified procedures and local clearance procedures.Article 289 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 goes further, offering to the Member States the possibility of the use of commercial or administrative documents and, where the whole of an export operation takes place on the territory of a single Member State, to provide for more simplification.An 'approved exporter' may be allowed by the customs authorities to carry out export procedures at his premises and to use commercial documents to forward the goods to the external border.As regards export refunds, there should be no difficulties between the procedures mentioned above and the requirements prescribed in Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 ((OJ L 351, 14.12.1987. )).In connection with its work on simplification of the common agricultural policy, the Commission is currently reflecting on the possibilities to simplify further the provisions concerning export restitutions.