Commission Regulation (EC) No 1281/1999 of 18 June 1999 laying down detailed rules implementing the entry price arrangements for grape juice and musts
Date: 1999-06-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fruit juice, fruit product, grape, import price

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1281/1999

of 18 June 1999

laying down detailed rules implementing the entry price arrangements for grape
juice and musts

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of
the
16 March 1987 on the common organisation of
market in wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1627/98 (2), and in particular Articles 53(3) and 83 thereof,

(1) Whereas Article 53 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87
lays down that, for juices and musts for which the
application of customs duties depends on the
import price of the product, the actual amount of
this price is verified either by checking every
consignment or by using a flat-rate import value
calculated by the Commission on the basis of price
quotations for the same products in the countries
of origin; whereas criteria must also be fixed for
determining which control method is
to be
applied; whereas the current features of the system
for the import of grape juices and musts into the
Community, and in particular the irregularity of
such imports,
in terms of both volume and
frequency, and with respect to the places of import
and the origin of these products, do not permit the
calculation of representative flat-rate import values
to verify the actual amount of the import price;
whereas, under
this price
should be verified by checking every consignment
in view of the fact that these imports are irregular
in nature;

these circumstances,

(2) Whereas the import price on the basis of which
imported products are classed in the Common
Customs Tariff must be equal to the fob price of
those products plus the cost of insurance and trans-
port to the place of entry into Community customs
territory;

This Regulation lays down the rules of application of the
entry price arrangements for products falling within CN
codes 2009 60 and 2204 30, listed in Annex I, Part 3,
Section I, Annex 2, to the Customs Tariff of the European
Communities.

Article 2

The actual import price for the products referred to in
Article 1 shall be verified by checking every consignment.

Article 3

For the purposes of this Regulation ‘consignment' means
the goods presented under a declaration of release for free
circulation. Each declaration may cover only goods of one
and the same origin falling within a single combined
nomenclature code.

Article 4

1.
The import price on the basis of which the products
referred to in Article 1 are classed in the Common
Customs Tariff must be equal to the fob price of those
products in their country of origin plus the cost of insur-
to the place of entry to the
ance and transport
Community customs territory.

2. Where the import price cannot be determined on
the basis of paragraph 1 of this Article, the products
referred to in Article 1 shall be classed in the Common
Customs Tariff on the basis of the customs value deter-
mined in accordance with the provisions of Articles 30
and 31 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 (3).

(3) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Wine,

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1999.

(1) OJ L 84, 27.3.1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 8.

(3) OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission