Commission Regulation (EC) No 569/2007 of 24 May 2007 modifying Regulation (EC) No 210/2007 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 as regards the term of validity of export licences with advance fixing of the refund in the milk and milk products sector
Date: 2007-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, derogation from EU law, export licence, export refund, milk

25.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 133/17

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 569/2007

of 24 May 2007

modifying Regulation (EC) No 210/2007 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 as regards
the term of validity of export licences with advance fixing of the refund in the milk and milk
products sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

may be progressively re-established without any risk of
destabilisation of the proper functioning of the common
market organisation. It is therefore appropriate to modify
Regulation (EC) No 210/2007.

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,

(4)

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006
of 17 August 2006 laying down special detailed rules for
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No
the
1255/1999 as
and export
refunds in the case of milk and milk products (2) lays
down the term of validity of export licences.

licences

regards

export

As a precautionary measure, with a view to protect the
Community budget from unnecessary expenditures and
to avoid a speculative application of the export refund
regime in the dairy sector, Commission Regulation
(EC) No 210/2007 (3) provided for that, by way of dero-
gation from Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006, the term of
validity of export licences for milk products for which an
application has been lodged from 1 March 2007 on
should be limited to 30 June 2007.

Article 1

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 210/2007 is replaced by the
following:

‘By way of derogation from Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No
1282/2006,
licences with
the term of validity of export
advance fixing of the refund, which are applied for until 14
June 2007 in respect of the products referred to in point (c)
of that Article, shall expire on 30 June 2007.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

(3)

A close monitoring of both the internal and the world
market has shown a longer validity period of the licences

It shall apply from 25 May 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 May 2007.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(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 234, 29.8.2006, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 532/2007 (OJ L 125, 15.5.2007, p. 7).

(3) OJ L 61, 28.2.2007, p. 23.