Commission Regulation (EC) No 1892/2002 of 23 October 2002 concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance fixing of the refund
Date: 2002-10-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, rice

L 286/18

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

24.10.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1892/2002

of 23 October 2002

concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance fixing of the
refund

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 Commission Regulation (EC) No
411/2002 (2),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 of
23 May 1995, laying down special detailed rules for the appli-
cation of the system of import and export licences for cereals
and rice (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1322/
2002 (4), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article
7(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 provides,
where this paragraph is specifically referred to when an
export refund is fixed, for an interval of three working
days between the day of submission of applications and
the granting of export licences with advance fixing of
the refund and provides that the Commission is to fix a
uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if appli-
cations for export licences exceed the quantities which
may be exported. Commission Regulation (EC) No
1712/2002 (5)
the procedure
provided for
in the abovementioned paragraph for
5 000 tonnes for all destinations R02 and R03 defined
in the Annex to that Regulation.

refunds under

fixes

(2)

(3)

For all destinations R02 and R03, quantities applied for
on 22 October 2002 are in excess of the available quan-
tity, a percentage reduction should therefore be fixed for
export
licence applications submitted on 22 October
2002.

In view of its purpose, this Regulation should take effect
from the day of its publication in the Official Journal of
the European Communities,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For all destinations R02 and R03 defined in the Annex to
Regulation (EC) No 1712/2002, applications for export licences
for rice and broken rice with advance fixing of the refund
submitted under that Regulation on 22 October 2002 shall
give rise to the issue of licences for the quantities applied for to
which a percentage reduction of 50,31 % has been applied.

Article 2

For all destinations R02 and R03 defined in the Annex to
Regulation (EC) No 1712/2002, applications for export licences
for rice and broken rice submitted from 23 October 2002 shall
not give rise to the issue of export
that
Regulation.

licences under

This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 October 2002.

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 23 October 2002.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 62, 5.3.2002, p. 27.
(3) OJ L 117, 24.5.1995, p. 2.
(4) OJ L 194, 23.7.2002, p. 22.
(5) OJ L 295, 27.9.2002, p. 51.