Commission Regulation (EC) No 32/1999 of 8 January 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 laying down the reduced agricultural components and additional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1998 to the importation into the Community of goods covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under Agreements with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Date: 1999-01-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Baltic States, CCT duties, agro-industry, generalised preferences, originating product, tariff quota

9. 1. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 5/43

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 32/1999

of 8 January 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 laying down the reduced agricultural
components and additional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1998 to
the importation into the Community of goods covered by Council Regulation
(EC) No 3448/93 under Agreements with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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 last amended by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 2491/98 (2), and in particular
Article 7 thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 (3)
laid down the reduced agricultural components and addi-
tional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1998
to the importation into the Community of goods covered
by Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under Agreements with
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania;

Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 26/1999 of 21
December 1998 adopting autonomous and transitional
measures for Europe Agreements with Lithuania, Latvia
and Estonia in certain processed agricultural products (4),
lays down in Annex II, for the period from 1 January to
30 June 1999, the basic amounts to be taken into consid-
eration in calculating the reduced agricultural compo-
nents applicable on importation from the countries
covered by that Regulation;

Whereas the basic amounts fixed by Regulation (EC) No
26/1999 are identical to those fixed by Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 2621/97 (5) for the period from 1 July to 31
December 1998; whereas therefore the amounts of the
reduced agricultural components and additional duties

established by Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 should be
extended until 30 June 1999;

Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/
97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating to the
introduction of the euro (6), lays down that from 1 January
1999 every reference in a legal instrument to the ECU
shall be replaced by a reference to the euro at a rate of
EUR 1 to ECU 1; whereas, for reasons of clarity, it is
in this Regulation,
appropriate to use the term ‘euro'
given that it is applicable from 1 January 1999,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 is amended as follows.

1. In Article 1 and 3 and Annexes I to VI, the date ‘31
December 1998' is replaced by ‘30 June 1999'.

2. In Annexes I to VI, the term ‘ECU/100 kg' is replaced

by ‘EUR/100 kg'.

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 from 1 January to 30 June 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 January 1999.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 318, 20. 12. 1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 309, 19. 11. 1998, p. 28.
(3) OJ L 197, 14. 7. 1998, p. 65.
(4) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
(5) OJ L 354, 30. 12. 1997, p. 1.

(6) OJ L 162, 19. 6. 1997, p. 1.