do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Commission Regulation (EC) No 320/2000 of 11 February 2000 fixing the maximum aid for concentrated butter for the 219th special invitation to tender opened under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 429/90
Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, award of contract, butter, concentrated product

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 320/2000

of 11 February 2000

fixing the maximum aid for concentrated butter for the 219th special invitation to tender opened
under the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 429/90

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

In accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No
429/90 of 20 February 1990 on the granting by invita-
tion to tender of an aid for concentrated butter intended
for direct consumption in the Community (2), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 124/1999 (3), the inter-
vention agencies are opening a standing invitation to
tender for the granting of aid for concentrated butter;
Article 6 of that Regulation provides that in the light of
the tenders received in response to each special invita-
tion to tender, a maximum amount of aid is to be fixed
for concentrated butter with a minimum fat content of
96 % or a decision is to be taken to make no award;
whereas the end-use security must be fixed accordingly.

(2)

(3)

In the light of the tenders received, the maximum aid
should be fixed at the level specified below and the
end-use security determined accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 219th special invitation to tender under the standing
invitation to tender opened by Regulation (EEC) No 429/90,
the maximum aid and the amount of the end-use security shall
be as follows:

— maximum aid:
— end-use security:

117 EUR/100 kg
129 EUR/100 kg.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 February 2000.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 11 February 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 45, 21.2.1990, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 16, 21.1.1999, p. 19.
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Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Czechia, Germany, accession negotiations, ethnic group, expropriation

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Nevertheless, the Commission will closely follow the implementation of the Agreement, once it has come
into force, and raise any difficulties with the Swiss authorities in the joint committee which is to be
established under the agreement.

(2001/C 26 E/033)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0293/00

by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: Czech Republic(cid:146)s progress on the way to accession

(11 February 2000)

Is the Commission aware that the German government considers the Benesch decrees, in so far as they
relate to the deportation, revocation of citizenship and expropriation of Germans in former Czechoslova-
kia, as contrary to international law, and how in that connection does it view the possibility of those
decrees continuing to remain in force in the context of possible accession by the Czech Republic to the
European Union, having regard in particular to the Copenhagen political criteria?

(2001/C 26 E/034)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0294/00

by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: Czech Republic(cid:146)s progress on the way to accession

(11 February 2000)

Is the Commission aware that Czech citizens of German nationality continue to this day to have difficulty
in recovering property lost to them on the basis of the 1945 and 1946 laws and decrees, and is the
Commission prepared to make approaches to the government of the Czech Republic in that connection in
the context of accession negotiations?

(2001/C 26 E/035)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0295/00

by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: Czech Republic(cid:146)s progress on the way to accession

(11 February 2000)

Does the Commission share the view that the Czech Republic(cid:146)s restitution law is contrary to international
law in so far as the non-retention of Czech nationality continues to be treated as grounds for exclusion
from restitution of property even when that nationality was not surrendered voluntarily, and is the
Commission prepared to remind the government of the Czech Republic that compliance with international
law is an indispensable pre-condition for accession?

(2001/C 26 E/036)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0296/00

by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(11 February 2000)

Subject: Progress with implementing European Union objectives in the Czech Republic

Human rights violations committed against citizens of various nationalities as a result of their expulsion
from Czechoslovakia in the period after the end of the Second World War have still not been put right
even today. Many of those concerned are still living. Decrees by the Presidents of the Republic and other
laws led in 1945 and 1946 to the complete expropriation of mainly German and Hungarian property-
Commission Regulation (EC) No 324/2000 of 11 February 2000 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled long grain rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2176/1999
Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, rice

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 324/2000

of 11 February 2000

fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled long grain rice in connection with the
invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2176/1999

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 (2), and
in particular Article 13 (3) thereof,

(3)

(4)

The application of the abovementioned criteria to the
current market situation for the rice in question results
the
in the maximum export refund being fixed at
amount specified in Article 1.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Cereals,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

An invitation to tender for the export refund on rice was
to Commission Regulation (EC) No
issued pursuant
2176/1999 (3).

Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/
75 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (5),
allows the Commission to fix, in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No
3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders submitted, a
maximum export refund. In fixing this maximum, the
criteria provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No
3072/95 must be taken into account. A contract is
awarded to any tenderer whose tender is equal to or less
than the maximum export refund.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The maximum export refund on wholly milled long grain rice
falling within CN code 1006 30 67 to be exported to certain
third countries pursuant to the invitation to tender issued in
Regulation (EC) No 2176/1999 is hereby fixed on the basis of
the tenders
submitted from 4 to 10 February 2000 at
258,00 EUR/t.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 February 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 February 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 267, 15.10.1999, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.
(5) OJ L 35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.
WRITTEN QUESTION E-0319/00 by Dana Scallon (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Environmental pollution and health.
Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU environmental policy, EU law, environmental protection, genetically modified organism, operation of the Institutions, public health

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(2000/C 330 E/136)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0319/00

by Dana Scallon (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(11 February 2000)

Subject: Environmental pollution and health

Considering the close relationship between environmental pollution and public health, how does the
Commission see coordination between these two areas developing?

For instance, is the Commission satisfied that the Commission for the Environment still retains control of
releases of genetically modified organisms?

Answer given by Mrs Wallstr(cid:246)m on behalf of the Commission

(28 March 2000)

The link between environmental problems and public health has been and remains a strong factor in both
Community environment and public health policies.

The two services involved are each in the process of preparing medium (cid:129) and longer range policy plan
proposals to be adopted by the Commission later this year. Directorate general Environment is preparing a
proposal for the sixth environment action programme. Directorate general Health and consumer protec-
tion is preparing a Community strategy in the field of public health, including action programmes in the
field of (cid:145)Environment and health(cid:146). In the preparatory work of these environmental and public health policy
programmes, both services are particularly concerned that inter-service discussion and co-ordination
safeguards the link between environment and health.

The existing regulatory framework in relation to genetically modified organisms aims to ensure protection
of human health and the environment. It is founded on Council Directive 90/220/EEC of 23 April 1990
on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) (1) and Council
Directive 90/219/EEC of 23 April 1990 on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms (1),
as amended by Council Directive 98/81/EEC of 26 October 1998 (2).

Other aspects of GMOs, such as novel food, fall under the responsibility of the member of the Commission
responsible for health and consumer protection, with whom there is a continuing and close collaboration.
The Commission continues to ensure that these aspects are correctly co-ordinated among the services
involved.

(1) OJ L 117, 8.5.1990.
(2) OJ L 330, 5.12.1998.

(2000/C 330 E/137)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0320/00

by Dana Scallon (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(11 February 2000)

Subject: Biosafety Protocol Conference and the decision-making process

How does the Commission decide what stance the European delegation should take in fora such as the
Biosafety Protocol Conference in Montreal, when European legislation on genetic engineering (in particular
Directive 90/220/EEC (1) is still mired in controversy?

(1) OJ L 117, 8.5.1990, p. 15.
Notice of the European Central Bank on the imposition of sanctions for breaches of the obligation to hold minimum reserves
Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Central Bank
Subjects: European Central Bank, action for failure to fulfil an obligation, administrative sanction, budgetary reserve (EU)

11.2.2000

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C 39/3

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

NOTICE OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK ON THE IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS FOR BREACHES OF
THE OBLIGATION TO HOLD MINIMUM RESERVES

(2000/C 39/04)

Article 7(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2531/98 of 23
November 1998 concerning the application of minimum
inter alia,
reserves by the European Central Bank states that,
where an institution fails to hold all or part of the minimum
reserves imposed in accordance with that Regulation and ECB
Regulations or Decisions associated therewith, certain sanctions
may be imposed by the European Central Bank (ECB).

In order to ensure transparency as regards the sanctions policy
of the ECB in the field of minimum reserves, the ECB has
decided to make public
the
the
sanctions policy that it will apply until further notice:

following elements of

1. Amount of the sanction imposed by the European
Central Bank in the event of a breach of the obligation
to hold minimum reserves

In the event of a breach of the obligation to hold the required
level of minimum reserves, in accordance with Council Regu-
lations or Regulations or Decisions of
the ECB associated
therewith, a sanction will be imposed which shall be calculated
as a penalty of 2,5 percentage points above the average, taken
over the maintenance period in which the breach occurred, of
the marginal lending rate of the European System of Central
Banks, applied to the daily average amount of minimum
reserves the institution concerned failed to provide.

The penalty will be calculated using the following formula:

Dt (cid:1) nt (cid:1)

Xn

i (cid:136) 1

MLRi (cid:135) 2,5
nt (cid:1) 100

360

Pt (cid:136)

Where:

Pt

Dt

nt

i

= penalty to be paid owing to the lack of the required reserves

for the maintenance period t

= the amount of required lacking for the maintenance period t

(as a daily average)

= number of calendar days in the maintenance period t

= the calendar day of the maintenance period t

MLRi = the marginal lending rate on day i

2. Repetitive

breaches

of

the minimum reserve

requirements

Should an institution subject
to the minimum reserve
requirements breach its obligation to hold the required level
of minimum reserves more than twice during any 12-month
period,
it shall be deemed to have committed a repetitive
breach.

For each repetitive breach a sanction will be imposed, which
shall be calculated in accordance with the formula mentioned
under 1 above, as a penalty of five perccentage points above
the average, taken over the maintenance period in which the
repetitive breach occurred, of the marginal lending rate of the
European System of Central Banks, applied to the daily average
amount of minimum reserves the institution concerned failed
to provide.
WRITTEN QUESTION E-0293/00 by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Czech Republic's progress on the way to accession.
Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Czechia, Germany, accession negotiations, ethnic group, expropriation

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Nevertheless, the Commission will closely follow the implementation of the Agreement, once it has come
into force, and raise any difficulties with the Swiss authorities in the joint committee which is to be
established under the agreement.

(2001/C 26 E/033)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0293/00

by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: Czech Republic(cid:146)s progress on the way to accession

(11 February 2000)

Is the Commission aware that the German government considers the Benesch decrees, in so far as they
relate to the deportation, revocation of citizenship and expropriation of Germans in former Czechoslova-
kia, as contrary to international law, and how in that connection does it view the possibility of those
decrees continuing to remain in force in the context of possible accession by the Czech Republic to the
European Union, having regard in particular to the Copenhagen political criteria?

(2001/C 26 E/034)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0294/00

by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: Czech Republic(cid:146)s progress on the way to accession

(11 February 2000)

Is the Commission aware that Czech citizens of German nationality continue to this day to have difficulty
in recovering property lost to them on the basis of the 1945 and 1946 laws and decrees, and is the
Commission prepared to make approaches to the government of the Czech Republic in that connection in
the context of accession negotiations?

(2001/C 26 E/035)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0295/00

by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

Subject: Czech Republic(cid:146)s progress on the way to accession

(11 February 2000)

Does the Commission share the view that the Czech Republic(cid:146)s restitution law is contrary to international
law in so far as the non-retention of Czech nationality continues to be treated as grounds for exclusion
from restitution of property even when that nationality was not surrendered voluntarily, and is the
Commission prepared to remind the government of the Czech Republic that compliance with international
law is an indispensable pre-condition for accession?

(2001/C 26 E/036)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0296/00

by Hartmut Nassauer (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(11 February 2000)

Subject: Progress with implementing European Union objectives in the Czech Republic

Human rights violations committed against citizens of various nationalities as a result of their expulsion
from Czechoslovakia in the period after the end of the Second World War have still not been put right
even today. Many of those concerned are still living. Decrees by the Presidents of the Republic and other
laws led in 1945 and 1946 to the complete expropriation of mainly German and Hungarian property-
Commission Regulation (EC) No 316/2000 of 11 February 2000 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, citrus fruit, fruit vegetable, import price, perennial vegetable, pip fruit

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 316/2000

of 11 February 2000

establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and
vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

the standard
In compliance with the above criteria,
import values must be fixed at the levels set out in the
Annex to this Regulation,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of
21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the
last
import arrangements
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1498/98 (2), and in particular
Article 4(1) thereof,

fruit and vegetables (1), as

for

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 lays down, pursuant to the
outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade nego-
tiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the
in
standard values for imports from third countries,
respect of the products and periods stipulated in the
Annex thereto.

The standard import values referred to in Article 4 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 3223/94 shall be fixed as indicated in the Annex
hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 February 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 February 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66.
(2) OJ L 198, 15.7.1998, p. 4.

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to the Commission Regulation of 11 February 2000 establishing the standard import values for determining the
entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

ANNEX

CN code

0702 00 00

0707 00 05

0709 10 00

0709 90 70

0805 10 10, 0805 10 30, 0805 10 50

0805 20 10

0805 20 30, 0805 20 50,
0805 20 70, 0805 20 90

0805 30 10

0808 10 20, 0808 10 50, 0808 10 90

0808 20 50

Third country
code (1)

Standard import
value

(EUR/100 kg)

204
212
624
999
052
628
999
220
999
052
204
628
999
052
204
212
624
999
052
204
999

052
204
464
600
624
999
052
600
999
060
400
404
720
728
999
388
400
528
720
999

48,6
104,9
212,2
121,9
116,8
159,4
138,1
217,7
217,7
125,9
60,6
144,3
110,3
38,3
43,7
36,5
61,2
44,9
53,6
64,6
59,1

63,0
66,7
143,4
77,7
68,3
83,8
40,0
57,9
49,0
49,2
91,3
82,2
76,2
76,8
75,1
91,3
94,8
109,5
53,6
87,3

(1) Country nomenclature as fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2543/1999 (OJ L 307, 2.12.1999, p. 46). Code ‘999’ stands for ‘of

other origin’.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 326/2000 of 11 February 2000 fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice in connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2178/1999
Date: 2000-02-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: award of contract, export refund, rice

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12. 2. 2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 326/2000

of 11 February 2000

fixing the maximum export refund on wholly milled medium grain and long grain A rice in
connection with the invitation to tender issued in Regulation (EC) No 2178/1999

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22
December 1995 on the common organization of the market in
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 (2), and
in particular Article 13 (3) thereof,

(3)

(4)

The application of the abovementioned criteria to the
current market situation for the rice in question results
the
in the maximum export refund being fixed at
amount specified in Article 1.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Cereals,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

An invitation to tender for the export refund on rice was
to Commission Regulation (EC) No
issued pursuant
2178/1999 (3).

Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 584/
75 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 299/95 (5),
allows the Commission to fix, in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No
3072/95 and on the basis of the tenders submitted, a
maximum export refund. In fixing this maximum, the
criteria provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No
3072/95 must be taken into account. A contract is
awarded to any tenderer whose tender is equal to or less
than the maximum export refund.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The maximum export refund on wholly milled medium grain
and long grain A rice to be exported to certain third countries
pursuant to the invitation to tender issued in European Regula-
tion (EC) No 2178/1999 is hereby fixed on the basis of the
tenders
submitted from 4 to 10 February 2000 at
175,00 EUR/t.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 February 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 February 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 267, 15.10.1999, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 61, 7.3.1975, p. 25.
(5) OJ L 35, 15.2.1995, p. 8.