Commission Regulation (EC) No 1432/1999 of 30 June 1999 amending, in respect of food aid operations, Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 laying down special detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences for cereals and rice
Date: 1999-06-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cereals, export licence, import licence, rice

L 166/56

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

1. 7. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1432/1999

of 30 June 1999

amending, in respect of food aid operations, Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 laying
down special detailed rules for the application of the system of import and
export licences for cereals and rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 1253/1999 (2), and in particular
Article 9(2) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the
market in rice (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2072/98 (4), and in particular Article 9(2) thereof,

(1) Whereas Article 7(3) of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1162/95 (5), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 444/98 (6), provides for a scrutiny period
before licences are actually issued for the export of
all cereals, including rice, and most processed prod-
ucts, given the risks involved in issuing licences for
very high volumes; whereas the maintenance of
this mechanism is not justified for non-commercial
exports made with a view to providing Community
or national food aid, or for certain supplies by
humanitarian agencies; whereas Article 7 should
therefore be amended and provision should be
made for the amendment to take immediate effect;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The last subparagraph of Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC)
No 1162/95 is replaced by the following:

‘The first subparagraph shall not apply to licences
issued in connection with invitations to tender or to
the licences referred to in Article 14a of Regulation
(EC) No 3719/88 that are issued for the purpose of a
food aid operation within the meaning of Article 10(4)
of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded as part of
the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
The scrutiny period shall not apply to the issue of
export licences where an application relating to a
quantity of 20 tonnes or less is submitted by a
humanitarian agency without
an accompanying
refund application.'.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(4) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(5) OJ L 117, 24.5.1995, p. 2.
(6) OJ L 56, 26.2.1998, p. 12.