Commission Regulation (EC) No 740/2003 of 28 April 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex I of the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the amounts of such refunds
Date: 2003-04-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, export refund, primary product, processed foodstuff

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 740/2003

of 28 April 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application
of the system of granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of
goods not covered by Annex I of the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the amounts of such
refunds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6
December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable
to the certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul-
tural products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2580/
2000 (2), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 8(3)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/1999 of 15 April
1999 laying down common detailed rules for the appli-
cation of the system of export refunds on agricultural
products (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 444/
2003 (4),
limits the period during which basic agricul-
tural products or goods may remain under prefinancing
of the refund arrangements to the unexpired term of the
export licence.

Most refund certificates are valid for the calendar month
during which they were applied for plus the following
five calendar months. However, refund certificates issued
towards the end of the budget period have a shorter
validity period, which cannot, due to the international
commitments of the European Union, extend beyond 30
September.

In order to ensure sufficient flexibility so that operators
are able to make full use of those short duration refund
certificates it is appropriate to take specific measures
concerning those certificates.

Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000 of 13 July 2000 laying
down common detailed rules for the application of the
system of granting refunds on certain agricultural
products exported in the form of goods not covered by
Annex I to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 11.
(4) OJ L 67, 12.3.2003, p. 3.

amounts of such refunds (5), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1052/2002 (6),
should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(5)

The Management Committee on horizontal question
concerning trade in processed agricultural products not
listed in Annex I to the Treaty has not delivered an
opinion within the time limit set by its chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following paragraph 9 is added to Article 16 of Regulation
(EC) No 1520/2000:

‘9.
By way of derogation from Article 28(6) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 800/1999, for refund certificates issued for
use as from 1 June for goods to be exported before 1
October the basic products as listed in Annex A to this
Regulation may remain under customs control with a view
to processing for three months from the date of acceptance
of the payment declaration.

By way of derogation from Article 29(5) of Regulation (EC)
No 800/1999 for refund certificates issued for use as from
1 June for goods to be exported before 1 October the
goods as listed in Annexes B and C to this Regulation may
remain under a customs-warehousing or free zone proce-
dure for three months from the date of acceptance of the
payment declaration.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

It shall be applicable to payment declarations accepted from 1
October 2003.

(5) OJ L 177, 15.7.2000, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 160, 18.6.2002, p. 16.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 April 2003.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission