Commission Regulation (EC) No 1900/2002 of 24 October 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 on rules of application (cereal sector import duties) for Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
Date: 2002-10-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, cereals, customs formalities, food processing, import licence, stock-exchange listing

25.10.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 287/15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1900/2002

of 24 October 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 on rules of application (cereal sector import duties) for
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92, of 30
June 1992, on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1666/
2000 (2), and in particular Article 10(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No
1249/96 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 597/
2002 (4), the Commission uses the quotations for US
Barley No 2 on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange to
determine the representative cif import price for barley.
If these quotations are not representative, fob quotations
available in the United States of America are used
instead.
the Commission
summer months,
normally uses the fob quotations for barley in Duluth
(Great Lakes). In the wintertime, however, and due to
the Great Lakes freeze over, other fob quotations are
normally used (Gulf or Portland).

In the

The second footnote of annex II to Regulation (EC) No
1249/96 stipulates that an amount corresponding to the
freight cost, from the place of the quotation to the Gulf
of Mexico, must be taken into account. As a result of
using of the fob quotation in Portland, some distortions
have occurred in the calculation of the representative cif
import price for barley. As the barley-producing areas
are situated in the north-central States of the United

States of America, the distances to be covered and, in
consequence, the freight costs from the production areas
to the export ports are all similar. The requirement to
take account of the freight costs between the selected
port of fob quotation and the Gulf of Mexico should
therefore be removed.

(3)

(4)

Consequently, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1249/96
must be amended.

The Management Committee for Cereals has not deliv-
ered an opinion within the time limit
set by its
chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The second footnote in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1249/
96 is replaced by the following:

‘Where no quotation is available that can be used to calcu-
late a representative cif import price, the most representa-
tive fob quotations publicly available in the United States
of America shall be used.’

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 24 October 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 161, 29.6.1996, p. 125.
(4) OJ L 91, 6.4.2002, p. 9.