Commission Regulation (EC) No 1503/1999 of 9 July 1999 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables
Date: 1999-07-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, third country

10. 7. 1999

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1503/1999

of 9 July 1999

on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2190/96 of
14 November 1996 on detailed rules for implementing Council
Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards export refunds on fruit
and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1303/1999 (2), and in particular Article 3(4) thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1304/
1999 (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1380/
1999 (4) sets the indicative refund rates and the indic-
ative quantities for A2 export licences, other than those
applied for in the context of food aid;

(2) Whereas, for oranges, lemons, apples for destinations in
geographical zone F02 and table grapes in view of the
economic situation in the various destination groups
indicated in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1304/
1999 and taking account of information received by
operators via their applications for A2 licences,
the
definitive refund rates should be set at a different rate
from the indicative rates; whereas the percentages for
the issuing of
licences for the quantities applied for
should also be set; whereas the definitive rates may not
be more than 50 % more than the indicative rates;

(3) Whereas, in view of the situation in geographical zone
the refund rate for apples for that destination

F01,
should be set no higher than the indicative rate;

(4) Whereas, pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No
2190/96, applications for rates in excess of the cor-
responding definitive rates shall be considered null and
void,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
For A2 export licences for which applications have been
submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1304/
1999, the actual date of application referred to in the second
subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96 is
hereby set at 12 July 1999.

The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall be
2.
issued at the definitive refund rates and at the percentages for
the quantities applied for as indicated in the Annex to this
Regulation.

Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96,
3.
applications referred to in the first paragraph for rates in excess
of the corresponding definitive rates set out in the Annex shall
be considered null and void.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 July 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 292, 15.11.1996, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 155, 22.6.1999, p. 29.
(3) OJ L 155, 22.6.1999, p. 30.
(4) OJ L 162, 26.6.1999, p. 62.

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ANNEX

Product

Destination or
group of destinations (1)

Definitive
refund rates
(EUR/tonne net)

Percentages
for the issuing of
licences

Tomatoes

Oranges

Lemons

Table grapes

Apples

Peaches and nectarines

A01

F01, F02, F05

A01

A01

F01

F02

A21

(1) The destination codes are defined as follows:

20

75

40

20

40

60

27

100 %

100 %

100 %

83 %

—

100 %

100 %

A01: All destinations.
A21: All destinations other than Switzerland.
F01: Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faeroes, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Yugoslavia

Macedonia,

Yugoslav

Republic

Republic

Federal

of

of

Croatia,
Former
Slovenia,
(Serbia and Montenegro), Malta.

F02: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine,

destinations mentioned in Article 34 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87, as amended.

F05: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia.