Commission Regulation (EC) No 410/2006 of  9 March 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products
Date: 2006-03-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, skimmed milk powder

10.3.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 71/7

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 410/2006

of 9 March 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of
the system of import and export licences and advance fixing certificates for agricultural products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1), and in particular Article 26(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 1(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
174/1999 of 26 January 1999 laying down special
detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation
(EEC) No 804/68 as regards export licences and export
in the case of milk and milk products (2),
refunds
provides that exports from the Community of products
for which an export refund is requested shall be subject
to the presentation of an export licence.

licence must also be presented for

the second subparagraph of Article 1(1) of
However,
Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 further lays down that
an export
the
products referred to in category II of Annex I thereto,
where no refund is applied for, except
in the cases
referred to in the first and fourth indents of Article
5(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 (3).

Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 provides that
a licence is not to be required and may not be produced
for the purposes of exports with export refunds relating
inter alia to small quantities not exceeding those set out
in Annex III to that Regulation.

(4)

(5)

(6)

is appropriate, where exports without

It
refunds of
skimmed-milk powder, as referred to in category II of
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 174/1999, relating to
to exempt exporters from the
those small quantities,
obligation of an export licence.

Annex III
therefore be amended accordingly.

to Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 should

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Milk and Milk Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, at the end of
product sector D, the following text is added:

Export licence without refund
(Article 1(1) second subparagraph of Regulation
(EC) No 174/1999)

‘0402 10

150 kg’

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 9 March 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).

(2) OJ L 20, 27.1.1999, p. 8. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2107/2005 (OJ L 337, 22.12.2005, p. 20).

(3) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1856/2005 (OJ L 297, 15.11.2005, p. 7).