Commission Regulation (EC) No 1165/1999 of 2 June 1999 concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance fixing of the refund
Date: 1999-06-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, price fixed in advance, rice

L 140/24

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

3. 6. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1165/1999

of 2 June 1999

concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance
fixing of the refund

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the
market in rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2072/98 (2),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1162/
95 of 23 May 1995 laying down special detailed rules for
import and export
the system of
the application of
licences for cereals and rice (3), as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 444/98 (4), and in particular the second
subparagraph of Article 7(4) thereof,

Whereas Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/95
provides, where this paragraph is specifically referred to
when an export refund is fixed, for an interval of three
working days between the day of submission of applica-
tions and the granting of export licences with advance
fixing of the refund and provides that the Commission is
to fix a uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if
applications for export
licences exceed the quantities
which may be exported; whereas Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1105/1999 (5), as amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1132/1999 (6),
the procedure
provided for in the abovementioned paragraph;

fixes refunds under

Whereas the quantities applied for on 31 May 1999 are in
excess of the available quantity of 3 400 t; whereas a

percentage reduction should therefore be fixed for export
licence applications submitted on 31 May 1999;

Whereas, in view of its purpose, this Regulation should
take effect from the day of its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Communities,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Applications for export licences for rice and broken rice
with advance fixing of the refund submitted under Regu-
lation (EC) No 1105/1999 on 31 May 1999 shall give rise
to the issue of licences for the quantities applied for to
which a percentage reduction of 33,55 % for rice for
destinations 02 and 03 in the Annex to Regulation (EC)
No 1105/1999 has been applied.

Article 2

Applications for export licences for rice and broken rice
submitted from 1 June 1999 for destinations 02 and 03
shall not give rise to the issue of export licences pursuant
to Regulation (EC) No 1105/1999.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 June 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 117, 24.5.1995, p. 2.
(4) OJ L 56, 26.2.1998, p. 12.
(5) OJ L 133, 28.5.1999, p. 34.
(6) OJ L 135, 29.5.1999, p. 62.