Commission Regulation (EC) No 2790/98 of 22 December 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 2106/98 laying down special measures derogating from Regulations (EEC) No 3665/87 and (EEC) No 3719/88 as regards beef and veal
Date: 1998-12-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Russia, beef, customs regulations, export, export licence

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2790/98

of 22 December 1998

amending Regulation (EC) No 2106/98 laying down special measures derogating
from Regulations (EEC) No 3665/87 and (EEC) No 3719/88 as regards beef and
veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Regulation (EC) No 2106/98 is amended as follows:

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of
27 June 1968 on the common organisation of the market
in beef and veal (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1633/98 (2), and in particular Article 13(12) and
Article 25 thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2106/98 (3), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2157/98 (4), introduces
special measures for regularising certain export transac-
tions in the wake of the problems arising on the market
in Russia since the second half of August 1998;

Whereas the difficulties on the market
in Russia are
continuing; whereas the situation thereby created has ser-
iously affected operators’ possibilities of exporting to that
destination; whereas the damaging consequences of this
must accordingly be limited by the adoption of special
measures enabling the export
and certain
customs procedures already initiated to be cancelled and
certain time limits to be extended;

licences

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

1. On application by the holder, export licences
issued pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 and
applied for prior to 29 August 1998, with the excep-
tion of licences the term of validity of which expired
before 17 August 1998, are hereby cancelled and the
securities shall be released.

2. On application by the operator, the latter shall
reimburse any refund paid in advance on products the
customs export formalities for which were completed
by 29 August 1998 at the latest but which have not yet
left the customs territory of the Community or which
have been placed under any of
the arrangements
provided for in Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EEC)
No 565/80 and the various securities relating to such
operations shall be released.';

2. in Article 4(1),

‘150 days' is replaced by ‘210 days';

3. Article 5 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 5

Each Thursday, Member States shall notify the quant-
ities of products covered during the preceding week by
the measures referred to in Article 2(1) and (2), speci-
fying the date of issue of the licences and the category
concerned.'

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

Article 2

(1) OJ L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
(2) OJ L 210, 28. 7. 1998, p. 17.
(3) OJ L 267, 2. 10. 1998, p. 5.
(4) OJ L 271, 8. 10. 1998, p. 16.

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

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

Done at Brussels, 22 December 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission