Commission Regulation (EC) No 2716/1999 of 20 December 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1564/1999 fixing the minimum import price applicable to dried grapes during the 1999/2000 marketing year as well as the countervailing charge to be imposed where that price is not observed
Date: 1999-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: countervailing charge, dried product, grape, import, marketing, minimum price

21. 12. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 327/35

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2716/1999

of 20 December 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 1564/1999 fixing the minimum import price applicable to dried
grapes during the 1999/2000 marketing year as well as the countervailing charge to be imposed
where that price is not observed

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the markets in
processed fruit and vegetable products (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2199/97 (2), and in particular Article 13(8)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1564/1999 (3) fixes for
the 1999/2000 marketing year the minimum import
price applicable to dried grapes falling within CN code
0806 20 and listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No
in
2201/96,
Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96;

in accordance with the criteria set out

in accordance with Article 10 of the Agreement on
Safeguards concluded during the Uruguay Round of
multilateral trade negotiations, the safeguard measures
taken under Article XIX of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade of 1947 and which were in existence
on the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement
must be terminated not later than eight years after the
date on which they were first applied, or five years after
the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement,
whichever comes later;

(3)

the minimum import price is a safeguard measure taken
the GATT of 1947, so the
under Article XIX of
legal obligation to
Community has an international

(4)

(5)

abolish it for the above products no later than the end
of 1999;

to meet the aforementioned obligation, therefore, the
minimum import price should be fixed at zero, with
effect from 1 January 2000. The countervailing charge
to be imposed where this price is not observed must
also be fixed at zero;

the measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Veget-
ables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1564/1999 is replaced by the
following:

‘Article 1

The minimum import price and the countervailing charge
applicable to dried grapes falling within CN code 0806 20
shall both be fixed at zero from 1 January 2000.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from I January 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 December 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 303, 6.11.1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 13.