CELEX: 31999R2444
Language: en
Date: 1999-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2444/1999 of 18 November 1999 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

19. 11. 1999           EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                          L 298/3
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2444/1999
                                                          of 18 November 1999
                                       on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      responding definitive rates shall be considered null and
                                                                                 void,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2190/96 of                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
14 November 1996 on detailed rules for implementing Council
Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards export refunds on fruit                                          Article 1
and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1303/1999 (2), and in particular Article 3(4) thereof,                    1.    For A2 export licences for which applications have been
(1)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2331/1999 (3)               submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2331/
        sets the indicative refund rates and the indicative quant-        1999, the actual date of application referred to in the second
        ities for A2 export licences, other than those applied for        subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96 is
        in the context of food aid;                                       hereby set at 19 November 1999.
(2)     Whereas, for lemons and apples, in view of the                    2.    The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall be
        economic situation in the various destination groups              issued at the definitive refund rates and at the percentages for
        indicated in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2331/                the quantities applied for as indicated in the Annex to this
        1999 and taking account of information received by                Regulation.
        operators via their applications for A2 licences, the             3.    Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96,
        definitive refund rates should be set at a different rate         applications referred to in the first paragraph for rates in excess
        from the indicative rates; whereas the percentages for            of the corresponding definitive rates set out in the Annex shall
        the issuing of licences for the quantities applied for            be considered null and void.
        should also be set; whereas the definitive rates may not
        be more than 50 % more than the indicative rates;
                                                                                                       Article 2
(3)     Whereas, pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No
        2190/96, applications for rates in excess of the cor-             This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 November 1999.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 18 November 1999.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 292, 15.11.1996, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 155, 22.6.1999, p. 29.
(3) OJ L 281, 4.11.1999, p. 3.
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                                                                         ANNEX
                                                                                        Definitive                          Percentages
                                                    Destination or
                      Product                                                         refund rates                       for the issuing of
                                               group of destinations (1)
                                                                                    (EUR/tonne net)                           licences
        Tomatoes                                         A00                               20                                 100 %
        Oranges                                    F01, F02, F05                           50                                   94 %
        Lemons                                           A00                               52                                 100 %
        Table grapes                                     A00                               25                                 100 %
        Apples                                           F01                               35                                   69 %
                                                         F02                               38                                   98 %
        (1) The destination codes are defined as follows:
            A00: All destinations.
            F01: Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faeroes, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
                 Croatia, Slovenia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Malta.
            F02: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine,
                 destinations mentioned in Article 34 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87, as amended.
            F05: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Japan.