CELEX: 32004R1156
Language: en
Date: 2004-06-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1156/2004 of 23 June 2004 on the issuing of system A3 export licences in the fruit and vegetables sector (tomatoes, oranges and apples)

24.6.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 223/15
            
         
      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1156/2004
   of 23 June 2004
   on the issuing of system A3 export licences in the fruit and vegetables sector (tomatoes, oranges and apples)
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables (1), and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 35(3) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Commission Regulation (EC) No 904/2004 (2) opens an invitation to tender setting the indicative refund rates and indicative quantities for system A3 export licences, which may be issued, other than those tendered for as part of food aid.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               In the light of the tenders submitted, the maximum refund rates and the percentages of quantities to be awarded for tenders quoting those maximum rates should be set.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               In the case of tomatoes, oranges and apples, the maximum rate necessary to award licences for the indicative quantity up to the quantities tendered for is not more than one-and-a-half times the indicative refund rate,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   In the case of tomatoes, oranges and apples, the maximum refund rates and the percentages for reducing the quantities awarded under the invitation to tender opened by Regulation (EC) No 904/2004 shall be fixed in the Annex.
   Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 June 2004.
   
      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
      Done at Brussels, 23 June 2004.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ
         
         
            Agriculture Director-General
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 47/2003 (OJ L 7, 11.1.2003, p. 64).
   
      (2)  OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 43.
   
      ANNEX
      Issuing of system A3 export licences in the fruit and vegetable sector (tomatoes, oranges and apples)
      
                  Product
               
               
                  Maximum refund rate
                  (EUR/t net)
               
               
                  Percentage awarded of quantities tendered for quoting the maximum refund rate
               
            
                  Tomatoes
               
               
                  0
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  Oranges
               
               
                  30
               
               
                  100 %
               
            
                  Apples
               
               
                  30
               
               
                  100 %