Commission Regulation (EC) No 444/98 of 25 February 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 laying down special detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences for cereals and rice
Date: 1998-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, food cereals, import licence, rice

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 444/98

of 25 February 1998

amending Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 laying down special detailed rules for the
application of the system of import and export licences for cereals and rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the
market
in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Articles
9(2) and 13(11) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the
market in rice (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
192/98 (4), and in particular Articles 9(2) and 13(15)
thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
3719/88 of 16 November 1988 laying down common
detailed rules for the application of the system of import
and export
licences and advance-fixing certificates for
agricultural products (5), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1404/97 (6),

Whereas Article 7(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1162/95 of 23 May 1995 laying down special detailed
rules for the application of the system of import and
export licences for cereals and rice (7), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 932/97 (8), fixes the period of validity
of export licences inter alia for products falling within
CN codes 1702 30, 1702 40, 1702 90 and 2106 90;
whereas licences are valid until the end of the fourth
month following their issue; whereas the period of validity
is fixed in accordance with market needs and the require-
ments of efficent management;

Whereas, given the special situation on the market for
certain products processed from cereals at the end of the
marketing year, rules should be laid down for the issue of
licences between the old and the new marketing years so
as not to commit large quantities during the period prior

(1) OJ L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(4) OJ L 20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 16.
(5) OJ L 331, 2. 12. 1988, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 194, 23. 7. 1997, p. 5.
(7) OJ L 117, 24. 5. 1995, p. 2.
(8) OJ L 135, 27. 5. 1997, p. 2.

licences

the end of

to the new potato and maize harvests; whereas, in order to
ensure sound management of the market, it should be
laid down that customs export
formalities for certain
for certain products processed from
export
cereals at
the marketing year must be
completed by 30 June, either for direct export or for
export under the arrangements laid down by Articles 4
and 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 565/80 of 4 March
1980 on the advance payment of export refunds in respect
of agricultural products (9), as amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2026/83 (10); whereas that restriction derogates
from Articles 27(5) and 28(5) of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 3665/87 (11), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2114/97 (12); whereas the period of validity of licences
during the final days of a marketing year and the first
months of a new marketing year should similarly be
restricted by providing for a period of validity of 30 days
from the date of issue;

same product

falling within the

Whereas Article 13a of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88
provides for the possibility of issuing licences for several
products
category
provided that
such a category has been established;
whereas Article 4(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No
1162/95 provides for the issue of licences for two or more
contiguous 12-digit
for certain products;
subdivisions
whereas the Article 4 concerned should be clarified in the
light of the horizontal provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
3719/88, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1199/95 (13),
by defining the categories of products referred to in
Article 13a for which an identical refund is paid;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 is hereby amended as
follows:

(9) OJ L 62, 7. 3. 1980, p. 5.
(10) OJ L 199, 22. 7. 1983, p. 12.
(11) OJ L 351, 14. 12. 1987, p. 1.
(12) OJ L 295, 29. 10. 1997, p. 2.
(13) OJ L 119, 30. 5. 1995, p. 4.

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1. Article 4(1) is replaced by the following:

‘1. Notwithstanding Article 13a of Regulation (EEC)
No 3719/88, for products falling within CN codes
1101 00 15, 1102 20, 1103 11 10 and 1103 13, applica-
tions for export licences may indicate products falling
within two contiguous 12-digit subdivisions of
the
abovementioned subheadings.

The following product categories within the meaining
of Article 13a of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 shall
apply:

category 1: 1108 11 00 9200, 1108 11 00 9300

category 2: 1108 12 00 9200, 1108 12 9300

category 3: 1108 13 00 9200, 1108 13 00 9300

category 4: 1108 19 10 9200, 1108 19 10 9300

category 5: 1702 30 51 9000, 1702 30 91 9000,

1702 90 50 9100

category 6: 1702 30 59 9000, 1702 30 99 9000,
1702 40 90 9000, 1702 90 50 9900,
2106 90 55 9000.

The 12-digit subdivisions shown in applications shall
appear on the export licences’;

2.

in the first indent of Article 4(2), ‘eleven-digit code’ is
replaced by ‘12-digit code’ and the following is added:
‘in which case the following shall be indicated in
Section 15: preparations used for animal feed covered
by Regulation (EC) No 1517/95’;

3.

the following paragraph 1a is added to Article 7:

‘1a. However, notwithstanding paragraph 1, the va-
lidity of export licences for products falling within CN
codes 1702 30, 1702 40, 1702 90 and 2106 90 for
which applications are submitted up until 25 June of
each marketing year shall expire on 30 June. For
applications submitted from 26 June of a marketing
year until 30 September of the following marketing
year, export licences for the abovementioned products
shall be valid for 30 days from their date of issue
within the meaning of Article 21(1) of Regulation
(EEC) No 3719/88.

Customs export formalities for the abovementioned
licences must be completed by 30 June of each
marketing year for licences applied for up until 25
June. For such licences applied for between 26 June
and 30 September of the following marketing year,

customs export formalities must be completed no later
than 30 days following their date of issue.

Those deadlines shall also apply to the formalities
referred to in Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No
3665/87 for products placed under the arrangements
laid down by Regulation (EEC) No 565/80 under those
licences.

In Section 22 of those licences shall be entered one of
the following:

— Limitaci(cid:155)n establecida en al apartado 1 bis del
art(cid:146)culo 7 del Reglamento (CE) no 1162/95

— Begrænsning, jf. artikel 7, stk. 1a, i forordning (EF)

nr. 1162/95

— K(cid:129)rzung der G(cid:129)ltigkeitsdauer nach Artikel 7
Absatz 1a der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1162/95
— Peqioqisl ˜or pou pqobk ˜epetai sto ˜aqhqo 7
paq ˜acqavor 1a tou jamomislo ˜u (EJ) aqih.
1162/95

— Limitation provided for in Article 7(1a) of Regula-

tion (EC) No 1162/95

— Limitation pr(cid:130)vue (cid:133) l’article 7 paragraphe 1 bis du

r(cid:138)glement (CE) no 1162/95

— Limitazione prevista all’articolo 7, paragrafo 1 bis,

del regolamento (CE) n. 1162/95

— Beperking als bepaald in artikel 7, lid 1 bis, van

Verordening (EG) nr. 1162/95

— Limita(cid:135)˜ao estabelecida no nº 1A do artigo 7º do

Regulamento (CE) nº 1162/95

— Asetuksen (EY) N:o 1162/95 7 artiklan 1 a

kohdassa s(cid:132)(cid:132)detty rajoitus

— Begr(cid:132)nsning enligt artikel 7.1a i f(cid:148)rordning (EG) nr

1162/95.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day fol-
lowing its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

It shall apply to exports for which the formalities referred
to in Article 3 or 25 of Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 are
completed from the date of entry into force of this Regu-
lation.

to be
On application from the parties concerned,
submitted not later than 26 March 1998, Article 1(1) shall
apply to exports for which the abovementioned formal-
ities were completed from 1 July 1995.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 25 February 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission