Commission Regulation (EC) No 2782/1999 of 27 December 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2420/1999 on the issuing of A1 export licences for fruit and vegetables and fixing export refunds for apples
Date: 1999-12-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, food aid, pip fruit

L 334/26

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Official Journal of the European Communities

28. 12. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2782/1999

of 27 December 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 2420/1999 on the issuing of A1 export licences for fruit and
vegetables and fixing export refunds for apples

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

the Management Committee for fresh Fruit and Veget-
ables has not delivered an opinion within the time limit
set by its chairman,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in
fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1257/1999 (2), and in particular Article 35(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

some difficulties are currently being experienced on the
export market for apples, in particular as regards distant
destinations;

the indicative quantities of apples eligible for export
subsidy should be increased;

for exports to distant destinations this should be done
without delay since certain licences are only valid until
the end of February;

the date in Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
2420/1999 (3)
from which new applications may be
submitted for A1 export licences for apples should be
amended;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The export refunds for apples shall be as laid down in the
Annex hereto.

Licences issued for food aid, as referred to in Article 14a of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 (4), shall not count
against the eligible quantities laid down in the Annex.

Article 2

In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2420/1999, the date 17
January 2000 is replaced by 4 January 2000.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 January 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 December 1999.

For the Commission

Margot WALLSTRÖM

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(3) OJ L 291, 13.11.1999, p. 27.

(4) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.

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Product
(full definitions of
eligible products are given
in the ‘Fruit
and vegetables’
sector of
Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 3846/87
amended)

Apples

ANNEX

EXPORT REFUNDS FOR APPLES

System
Application periods

A1
4.1.2000 to 9.3.2000

A2
18 to 20.1.2000

B
24.1.2000 to 16.3.2000

Product
code

Destination
or
destination
group (1)

Refund
rate
(EUR/t
net weight)

Scheduled
quantity
(t)

0808 10 20 9100
0808 10 50 9100
0808 10 90 9100

0808 10 20 9100
0808 10 50 9100
0808 10 90 9100

0808 10 20 9100
0808 10 50 9100
0808 10 90 9100

F01

F02

F03, F04

40

40

40

4 500

Indicative
refund
rate
(EUR/t
net weight)

40

40

Scheduled
quantity
(t)

4 266

5 486

Indicative
refund
rate
(EUR/t
net weight)

40

40

40

Scheduled
quantity
(t)

4 266

5 487

2 500

(1) The destination codes are defined as follows:

F01: Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faeroes, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Former Yugoslav Republic

of Macedonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Malta.

F02: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, destinations referred to in Article 34 of

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87, as amended.

F03: African countries and territories except South Africa, countries of the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai,
Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qalwain, Ras al Khaimah, Fujairah), Kuwait, Yemen), Syria, Iran, Jordan, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia.

F04: Sri Lanka, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Tailand, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica,

and Japan.