Commission Regulation (EC) No 532/2007 of 14 May 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 laying down special detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards export licences and export refunds for milk and milk products and Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 establishing an agricultural product nomenclature for export refunds
Date: 2007-05-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, export licence, export refund, milk product

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 532/2007

of 14 May 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 laying down special detailed rules for the application of
Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards export licences and export refunds for milk and
milk products and Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 establishing an agricultural product nomenclature
for export refunds

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 31(14)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

In order not to exceed the maximum quantities to be
exported with an export refund fixed by the Agreement
on Agriculture concluded during the Uruguay Round of
Multilateral Trade Negotiations (2), the second subpara-
graph of Article 16(3) of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1282/2006 (3) provides that no refunds shall be
granted on the sucrose component of milk products
containing added sugar where the refund for the milk
part of those products is zero or is not fixed. While
there was a genuine risk for exceeding those maximum
the
quantities at
provision, such risk no longer exists.

the introduction of

the time of

refunds

Commission Regulation (EC) No 61/2007 of 25 January
2007 fixing the export
for milk and milk
products (4) abolished refunds for whole milk powder
and condensed milk, thus triggering the application of
the second subparagraph of Article 16(3) of Regulation
(EC) No 1282/2006. The abolition of refunds for both
milk and sucrose components may result
in loss of
substantial market shares for milk products containing
added sugar. Therefore it is appropriate to reintroduce
the sucrose component of milk
export
products containing added sugar.

refunds

for

licences shall show the eight-digit product code of the
Combined Nomenclature. Experience has shown that
after the export licences have been issued, the United
States importers may request
the supply of another
type of cheese of the same product group. In order to
it is appropriate to adjust Article
allow such flexibility,
24(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 accordingly.

(4)

(5)

(6)

refunds

Commission Regulation (EC) No 522/2006 of 30 March
2006 fixing the export
for milk and milk
products (5) provides that
from 31 March 2006 all
refunds are fixed in EUR per 100 kg. The
export
wording
(EC)
16
No 1282/2006 and Sector 9 of Annex I to Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (6) should be adjusted
accordingly.

Regulation

Article

of

of

Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 and Regulation (EC)
No 1282/2006 should be amended accordingly.

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

Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 is amended as follows:

1. Article 16 is amended as follows:

(a) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

(3)

The second subparagraph of Article 24(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 1282/2006 provides that, for export of cheese
to the United States under the quotas referred to in
Article 23 of that Regulation, section 16 of the export

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

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

(2) OJ L 336, 23.12.1994, p. 22.
(3) OJ L 234, 29.8.2006, p. 4. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1919/2006 (OJ L 380, 28.12.2006, p. 1).

(4) OJ L 19, 26.1.2007, p. 8.

‘2.
The component referred to in paragraph 1(a) shall
be calculated by multiplying the fixed amount of the
refund by the percentage of milk product content of
the whole product.’;

(b) in paragraph 3, the second subparagraph is deleted.

(5) OJ L 93, 31.3.2006, p. 45.
(6) OJ L 366, 24.12.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1854/2006 (OJ L 361, 19.12.2006, p. 1).

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2. In the second subparagraph of Article 24(1), the following

sentence is added:

‘the amount per 100 kg shown, multiplied by the percentage
of the lactic matter contained in 100 kg of product.’

‘However the licences are also valid for any other code
falling under CN code 0406.’

Article 3

Article 2

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

In Sector 9 of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87, the
first sentences of points (a) of
footnotes (4) and (14) are
replaced by the following:

Point 2 of Article 1 shall apply to export licences issued for
quota year 2007 and following.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 May 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission