Commission Regulation (EC) No 1496/2007 of 18 December 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 1043/2005 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 as regards the system of granting export 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 amount of such refunds
Date: 2007-12-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, agricultural product, export refund

19.12.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 333/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1496/2007

of 18 December 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 1043/2005 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 as
regards the system of granting export 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 amount of
such refunds

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of
6 December 1993 laying down the
arrangements
applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of
agricultural products (1), and in particular the first subparagraph
of Article 8(3) thereof,

trade

Whereas:

The introductory words of Article 54(3) of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1043/2005 (2) make a detailed
reference to the textual arrangement of Article 17 of
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).

by

Commission

Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 800/1999 has been
replaced
No
1001/2007 of 29 August 2007 amending Regulations
(EC) No 800/1999 and (EC) No 2090/2002 as regards
controls in the framework of export refunds on agri-
cultural products.

Regulation

(EC)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 1043/2005 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee on horizontal questions concerning trade in
processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 54(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1043/2005, the intro-
ductory words are replaced by the following:

‘For the goods listed in Annex II to this Regulation and by
way of derogation from Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No
800/1999, the amount set out in Article 17(1)(a)(ii) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 800/1999 shall apply regardless of the country
or territory of destination to which the goods are exported:’

Article 2

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

For reasons of clarity it is appropriate to adapt the intro-
ductory words of Article 54(3) of Regulation (EC) No
1043/2005 to take account of this development.

It shall apply from 2 September 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 December 2007.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

(1) OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2580/2000 (OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 172, 5.7.2005, p. 24. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 447/2007 (OJ L 106, 24.4.2007, p. 31).

(3) OJ L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 11. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1001/2007 (OJ L 226, 30.8.2007, p. 9).