Commission Regulation (EC) No 1127/1999 of 28 May 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products
Date: 1999-05-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, export licence, import licence, tariff preference

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EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

29. 5. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1127/1999

of 28 May 1999

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 laying down common detailed rules for
the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing
certificates for agricultural products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinions of all the
relevant management committees,

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 Article
the
thereof, and the corresponding provisions of
9(2)
other regulations on the common organisation of markets
in agricultural products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 is amended as follows:

1. Article 14(4) is replaced by the following text:

(1) Whereas, under Article 14(4) of Commission Regu-
lation (EEC) No 3719/88 (3), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 168/1999 (4), no security is
required in the case of export licences or certi-
ficates which are issued in respect of exports to
third
non-
Community food-aid operations conducted by
humanitarian agencies approved by the Commis-
sion under the Management Committee procedure;
whereas humanitarian agencies were last approved
by the Commission for the period until 30 June
1995;

connection with

countries

in

(2) Whereas,

in order to facilitate humanitarian aid
operations, new humanitarian agencies must be
approved; whereas, in order to ensure more effi-
cient control of these operations, approval should
be limited to the Member State of export; whereas,
therefore, the approval of humanitarian agencies
should be the task of the Member State of export;

(3) Whereas the wording on the export licence should
be adapted to take account of the introduction of
the euro; whereas transitional measures should be
laid down to allow stocks of licences to be used up;

(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24.5.1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 19, 26.1.1999, p. 4.

in

connection with

‘4. No security shall be required in the case of
export licences issued in respect of exports to third
countries
non-Community
food-aid operations conducted by humanitarian agen-
cies approved to this end by the Member State of
export. Member States shall
immediately send the
Commission the names of approved humanitarian
agencies.

These licences must be returned to the issuing agency
as quickly as possible, and in no case later than the
date of expiry of their period of validity.'

2. The words

‘total amount of

security in national
currency' in box 11 of the specimen AGREX export
licence form set out in Annex I to Regulation (EEC)
No 3719/88 shall be replaced by the words ‘total
amount of security'.

Article 2

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

Applications submitted for export licences and certificates
and extracts thereof issued by 30 June 2000 may be
drawn up on forms conforming to the specimen set out in
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 before the entry
into force of this Regulation.

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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, 28 May 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission