Commission Regulation (EC) No 2156/98 of 7 October 1998 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1223/94 laying down special detailed rules for the application of the system of advance-fixing certificates for certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty as regards the period of validity of the advance-fixing certificates for sugar
Date: 1998-10-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, export licence, export refund, milk product, sugar

8. 10. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 271/15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2156/98

of 7 October 1998

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1223/94 laying down special detailed rules
for the application of the system of advance-fixing certificates for certain agri-
cultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the
Treaty as regards the period of validity of the advance-fixing certificates for sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of
6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements
applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing
of agricultural products (1), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1097/98 (2), and in particular the first subpara-
graph of Article 8(3) thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1223/94 of 30
May 1994 laying down special detailed rules for the
application of the system of advance-fixing certificates for
certain agricultural products exported in the form of
goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1479/98 (4), stipulates
that the advance-fixing certificates for sugar shall be valid
until the end of the fifth month following that of issue;

Whereas the situation on the world market in sugar is
particularly volatile, the refund levels are particularly high
at present and it is hard to predict what price trends will
be, particularly over the entire current period of validity of
the certificates;

Whereas the refund levels substantially increase the level
of expenditure on agricultural products exported in the
form of non-Annex II goods with the danger of subse-
quently reducing the prospects for exporting these prod-
ucts,
in accordance with the international agreements
concluded by the Community; whereas, consequently,

taken to avoid aggravating

steps must be
these
consequences by excessive recourse to advance fixing of
the refund rates; whereas, under these conditions, the
period of validity of
these advance-fixing certificates
should be limited, temporarily, to until the end of the
third month following that of issue;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for horizontal questions concerning trade in
processed agricultural products not listed in Annex II,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

By way of derogation from Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC)
No 1223/94, the advance-fixing certificates for products
covered by the common organisation of the market in
sugar shall be valid until the end of the third month
following that of issue.

Article 2

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

It shall apply to applications for certificates lodged from 1
October 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 October 1998.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 318, 20. 12. 1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 157, 30. 5. 1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 136, 31. 5. 1994, p. 33.
(4) OJ L 195, 11. 7. 1998, p. 9.