CELEX: 32000R1718
Language: en
Date: 2000-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1718/2000 of 1 August 2000 amending the suspension of the issue of refund certificates for goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty

L 196/10                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                        2.8.2000
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1718/2000
                                                            of 1 August 2000
                amending the suspension of the issue of refund certificates for goods not covered by Annex I to
                                                                 the Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      considers that certificates may continue to be granted up
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            till 30 September. The amounts referred to in Article
Community,                                                                       8(10) of Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000 may be
                                                                                 included in the new certificates granted.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6
December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable               (3)    The issue of certificates should therefore be allowed as
to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural                   from 21 August 2000 for requests made as from 7
products (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)                      August 2000, in accordance with the arrangements set
No 2491/98 (2), and in particular the first subparagraph of                      out in Article 8(8) of Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000,
Article 8(3) thereof,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
of 13 July 2000 laying down common detailed rules for the
application of the system of granting export refunds on certain                                        Article 1
agricultural products exported in the form of goods not
covered by Annex I to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the         The text of Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1066/2000 is
amount of such refunds (3), and in particular Article 6b(6) and           replaced by the following text:
(8) thereof,                                                                  ‘The issue of refund certificates requested since 8 May 2000
Whereas:                                                                      is suspended until 30 September 2000. However, certi-
(1)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 1066/2000 (4) makes                     ficates requested as from 7 August 2000 may be issued in
        provision for the suspension of the issue of certificates             accordance with the arrangements set out in Article 8(8) of
        requested as from 8 May 2000.                                         Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000.’
(2)     Since the budgetary period expires at the end of                                               Article 2
        September, and since it has been possible to update the
        statistics available to the Commission, the Commission            This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 August 2000.
                       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                       Done at Brussels, 1 August 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Erkki LIIKANEN
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  318,  20.12.1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L  309,  19.11.1998, p. 28.
(3) OJ L  177,  15.7.2000, p. 1.
(4) OJ L  119,  20.5.2000, p. 9.