Commission Regulation (EC) No 2584/2000 of 24 November 2000 establishing a system for the communication of information on certain supplies of beef, veal and pigmeat by road to the territory of the Russian Federation
Date: 2000-11-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Russia, beef, exchange of information, information system, pigmeat, road transport

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2584/2000

of 24 November 2000

establishing a system for the communication of information on certain supplies of beef, veal and
pigmeat by road to the territory of the Russian Federation

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinions of
the Management
Committees concerned,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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 33(12) and 41 thereof,
and to the corresponding provisions of the other regulations
on the common organisation of the markets in agricultural
products,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 2 of the protocol on mutual administrative assis-
tance for the correct application of customs legislation
annexed to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
between the European Communities and their Member
States, of the one part, and the Russian Federation, of
the other part (2), provides that the parties are to assist
each other
legislation is
in ensuring that customs
correctly applied, in particular by the prevention, detec-
tion and investigation of contraventions of that legisla-
tion. To implement that administrative assistance, the
Commission, represented by the European Anti-Fraud
Office (hereinafter referred to as ‘OLAF’) and the Russian
authorities have concluded an arrangement establishing
a mechanism for the communication of information on
movements of goods between the Community and the
Russian Federation.

As part of that administrative assistance, specifically in
relation to the transport by road of beef, veal and
pigmeat products bound for the Russian Federation, the
information which operators must
forward to the
competent authorities of the Member States and the
system for communicating that information between the
competent authorities of the Member States, OLAF and
the Russian authorities must be laid down.

information and the system of communication
That
introduced will make it possible to trace exports of the
products concerned to the Russian Federation and,
where appropriate, detect cases in which a refund is not
due and must be recovered.

Application of the provisions of this Regulation will be
evaluated after a significant period of operation. The
review carried out on that basis may, where appropriate,
lead to their extension to exports of other products and
other means of
financial
consequences where obligations are or are not met.

and involve

transport

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 327, 28.11.1997, p. 48.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

This Regulation shall apply to consignments by truck of beef,
veal and pigment products falling within CN codes 0201, 0202
and 0203 bound for the territory of the Russian Federation for
which the export declarations are accompanied by an export
refund application.

This Regulation shall not apply to consignments as referred to
in the first subparagraph of a quantity less than 3 000 kilo-
grams.

Article 2

Exporters shall communicate to the central body designated by
each Member State of export,
for each export declaration,
within four working days of the date of unloading of the
products in Russia, the following information:

(a) a description of

the goods,
product code of the combined nomenclature;

indicating the eight-figure

(b) the export declaration number;

(c) the net quantity in kilograms;

(d) the TIR carnet number or the reference number of the

Russian customs transit document;

(e) the Member State of export, the customs office of departure
and the date on which the export customs formalities were
completed;

(f) the licence number of the warehouse under customs super-
vision to which the product was delivered in Russia;

(g) the date of delivery of the product to the warehouse under

customs supervision in Russia.

Article 3

1.
The body in the Member State concerned referred to in
Article 2 shall forward the information it receives to OLAF by
electronic mail within two working days of the date of receipt.

2.
The information referred to in Article 2, and an identifi-
cation number for each export operation, shall be sent by
OLAF to the Russian customs authorities upon receipt.

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OLAF shall inform the central body in the Member State
3.
concerned, as appropriate, of the Russian customs authorities'
reply, within two working days of receipt of that reply; or of
the failure by those authorities to reply, within two working
days of the end of the three-week period laid down for a reply
by the Russian authorities under the administrative arrange-
ment concluded with them.

Article 4

The information communication system established by
2.
this Regulation shall be evaluated after an effective period of
application of six months.

Article 5

1.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

The information referred to in Articles 1 and 2 shall not
1.
constitute additional requirements to those laid down for the
grant of export refunds in the sectors concerned.

It shall apply to consignments for which the export
2.
declarations referred to in Article 1 are accepted from 1
February 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 November 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission