Commission Regulation (EC) No 1659/2000 of 26 July 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 on rules of application for import and export licences in the beef and veal sector
Date: 2000-07-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: beef, common organisation of markets, export licence, import licence, quantitative restriction

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1659/2000

of 26 July 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 on rules of application for import and export licences in the
beef and veal sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), and in particular Articles 29(2) and 33(12) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 of
26 June 1995 on rules of application for import and
export licences in the beef and veal sector (2), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1439/2000 (3), derog-
ates from Article 5(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 3719/88 of 16 November 1988 laying down
common detailed rules for application of the system of
import and export licences and advance fixing certi-
ficates for agricultural products (4), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1127/1999 (5), by setting at EUR 60
the amount below which no licence is required for
products for which no refund has been claimed. For the
sake of simplification it is necessary to convert that
amount into head for live bovines and into tonnes for
other products.

Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 lays down a
period of validity of 75 days for export licences with
advance fixing of
the refund for pure-bred breeding
animals falling within CN code 0102 10 and a period of
four months plus the current month for licences issued
under the procedure referred to in Article 44 of Regula-
tion (EEC) No 3719/88. Experience has shown that
those periods are too brief and that they should be
extended to five months plus the current month. At the
same time, there should accordingly be a derogation
increasing from 21 to 90 days the time limit referred to
in Article 44(5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 within
which the exporter must inform the agency issuing the
licence of the result of a tendering procedure opened in
a third country.

(3)

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

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 35.
(3) OJ L 161, 1.7.2000, p. 67.
(4) OJ L 331, 2.12.1988, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 135, 29.5.1999, p. 48.

Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 is amended as follows:

1. In Article 7,
following:

the second paragraph is replaced by the

‘However, notwithstanding, the fourth indent of Article 5(1)
of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88, no export licence shall be
required for products covered by the second indent of
Article 8(2) in quantities not exceeding nine head for prod-
ucts falling within CN code 0102 and not exceeding two
tonnes for other products.’

2. Article 8(1) is replaced by the following:

‘1.
The period of validity of licences for exports of prod-
ucts for which a refund is claimed and which are subject to
the issuing of an export licence with advance fixing of the
refund shall be:

— five months plus the current month for products falling
within CN code 0102 10 and 75 days for products
falling within CN codes 0102 90 and 1602,

— 30 days for other products,

from the date of issue within the meaning of Article 21(2)
of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88.

The validity of licences for exports of beef and veal issued
under the procedure laid down in Article 44 of Regulation
(EEC) No 3719/88 shall, however, expire at the end of the

— fifth month for products

falling within CN code

0102 10,

— fourth month for other products

following the date of issue the meaning of Article 21(2) of
that Regulation.

By derogation from Article 44(5) of Regulation (EEC) No
3719/88, the time limit of 21 days for products falling
within CN code 0102 10 is replaced by 90 days.’

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 26 July 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission