Commission Regulation (EC) No 2352/98 of 30 October 1998 fixing the refunds applicable to cereal and rice sector products supplied as Community and national food aid
Date: 1998-10-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, State aid, cereals, export refund, food aid

31. 10. 98

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 293/11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2352/98

of 30 October 1998

fixing the refunds applicable to cereal and rice sector products supplied as
Community and national food aid

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 the third
subparagraph of Article 13(2) 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
2072/98 (4), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,

Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2681/
74 of 21 October 1974 on Community financing of
expenditure incurred in respect of the supply of agricul-
tural products as food aid (5) lays down that the portion of
the expenditure corresponding to the export refunds on
the products in question fixed under Community rules is
to be charged to the European Agricultural Guidance and
Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section;

Whereas,
in order to make it easier to draw up and
manage the budget for Community food aid actions and
to enable the Member States to know the extent of
Community participation in the financing of national
food aid actions, the level of the refunds granted for these
actions should be determined;

Whereas the general and implementing rules provided for
in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 and in
Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 on export
refunds are applicable mutatis mutandis to the above-
mentioned operations;

Whereas the specific criteria to be used for calculating the
export refund on rice are set out in Article 13 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 3072/95;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

agreements

For Community and national food aid operations under
supplementary
international
programmes, and other Community free supply measures,
the refunds applicable to cereals and rice sector products
shall be as set out in the Annex.

other

or

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 October 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(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 265, 30. 9. 1998, p. 4.
(5) OJ L 288, 25. 10. 1974, p. 1.

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31. 10. 98

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 October 1998 fixing the refunds applicable to cereal
and rice sector products supplied as Community and national food aid

(ECU/tonne)

Product code

1001 10 00 9400

1001 90 99 9000

1002 00 00 9000

1003 00 90 9000

1004 00 00 9400

1005 90 00 9000

1006 30 92 9100

1006 30 92 9900

1006 30 94 9100

1006 30 94 9900

1006 30 96 9100

1006 30 96 9900

1006 30 98 9100

1006 30 98 9900

1006 40 00 9000

1007 00 90 9000

1101 00 15 9100

1101 00 15 9130

1102 20 10 9200

1102 20 10 9400

1102 30 00 9000

1102 90 10 9100

1103 11 10 9200

1103 11 90 9200

1103 13 10 9100

1103 14 00 9000

1104 12 90 9100

1104 21 50 9100

Refund

0,00

25,00

65,00

60,00

56,00

44,00

142,00

142,00

142,00

142,00

142,00

142,00

142,00

142,00

—

44,00

34,00

34,00

71,26

61,08

—

68,15

20,00

20,00

91,62

—

73,22

90,86

NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ L 366, 24.
12. 1987, p. 1), amended.