Commission Regulation (EC) No 1962/2001 of 8 October 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 1429/95 on implementing rules for export refunds on products processed from fruit and vegetables other than those granted for added sugars
Date: 2001-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export refund, fruit product, vegetable product

9.10.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1962/2001

of 8 October 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 1429/95 on implementing rules for export refunds on products
processed from fruit and vegetables other than those granted for added sugars

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 1239/2001 (2), and in particular Article
16(8) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1429/95 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1007/97 (4), lays down
implementing rules for export refunds on products
processed from fruit and vegetables other than those
granted for added sugars.

Some amendments should be made in order to make the
management of this scheme more effective.

The calculation of the security lodged for the purpose of
submitting a licence application should be simplified.

E-mail should be used for sending the notifications to
the Commission.

Account must be taken of public holidays at
Commission and in the Member States.

the

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Processed Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1429/95 is hereby amended as follows:

1. The first indent of the second subparagraph of Article 3(1)

is replaced by the following:

(a) the total quantities

for which licences have been
applied for, except for those relating to applications
rejected under Article 3(4);

(b) the total quantities for which licences have been with-

drawn under Article 4(4);

(c) the total quantities for which licences have been issued

but not used;

(d) the total quantities not used within the tolerance laid
down in Article 8(5) of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1291/2000 (*).

Where there are no quantities to be communicated, the
notification shall contain the word “nil”.

2.

The notifications shall:

(a) include, where appropriate, the words “GATT food aid”
if they relate to a refund granted in connection with
food aid as provided for in Article 10(4) of the Agree-
ment on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay
Round of multilateral trade negotiations;

(b) be sent to the Commission by e-mail, using the form
the Commission has supplied to the Member States for
this purpose.

3.

in the case of applications

(a) The notifications shall be made no later than 12.00
(Brussels time) on Mondays and Thursdays of each
lodged each
week,
working day from the day of the preceding noti-
fication to the day preceding the notification in
question and also in the case of the information that
the Member States have received in the same period
on quantities withdrawn and not used. Where the
Monday or Thursday falls on a public holiday at the
Commission, the latter may temporarily change the
notification day.

(b) Where the day of notification referred to in point (a)
is a national public holiday,
the Member State
concerned shall send the notification by 15.00 at
the latest (Brussels time) on the working day imme-
diately preceding the national holiday.

(*) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1.’

‘— the lodging of a security of EUR 20 per tonne net

weight, up to the limit of the refund rate,’.

3. The Annex is deleted.

2. Article 6 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 6

1. Member States shall notify the Commission, for each
product category, of:

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 171, 26.6.2001, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 141, 24.6.1995, p. 28.
(4) OJ L 145, 5.6.1997, p. 16.

Article 2

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

It shall apply to licences applied for on or after 25 October
2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 October 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission