CELEX: 31997R0197
Language: en
Date: 1997-01-31 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 197/97 of 31 January 1997 on the issuing of export licences for fruit and vegetables without advance fixing of the refund

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                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 197/97
                                                      of 31 January 1997
                 on the issuing of export licences for fruit and vegetables without advance fixing
                                                         of the refund
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        between 25 November 1996 and 16 January 1997, a rate
                                                                   of refund which is lower than the indicative rate should
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              be fixed for tomatoes, oranges, lemons and apples,
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No
2190 /96 of 14 November 1996 on detailed rules for
implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 as                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
regards export refunds on fruit and vegetables (>), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 26/97 (2), and in par­
ticular Article 5 (6) thereof,                                                              Article 1
Whereas, under Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96,
Articles 5 and 6 of Commission Regulation (EC) No                  The reduction coefficients by which the quantities
1488/95 of 28 June 1995 on implementing rules for                  applied for must be multiplied and the rates of refund
export refunds on fruit and vegetables (3), as last amended        applying to export licences without advance fixing of the
by Regulation (EC) No 2702/95 (4), continue to apply to            refund as referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
licences without advance fixing as referred to in Article 5        1488/95 and system B licences as referred to in Article 5
thereof that are applied for in respect of consignments for        of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96, and applied for between
                                                                   25 November 1996 and 16 January 1997, shall be as fixed
which the export declaration is accepted before 25                 in the Annex hereto .
November 1996;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2196/96 (5)                  The above subparagraph shall not apply to licences
fixes the indicative quantities laid down for the issue of         applied for in connection with food-aid operations as
export licences other than those requested in the context          provided for in Article 10 (4) of the Agreement on Agri­
of food aid;                                                       culture concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilat­
                                                                   eral trade negotiations.
Whereas, in the light of information now available to the
Commission, the indicative quantities have been exceeded
in the case of tomatoes, oranges, lemons and apples;                                        Article 2
Whereas as a consequence, for licences without advance
fixing of the refund and system B licences applied for             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1997 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 31 January 1997.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 292, 15. 11 . 1996, p. 12.
I1) OJ No L 6, 10. 1 . 1997, p. 9.
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(«) OJ No L 280, 23. 11 . 1995, p. 30 .
 5) OJ No L 293, 16. 11 . 1996, p. 7.
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                                                          ANNEX
             Reduction coefficients for quantities applied for and rates of refund applicable to licences
             without advance fixing of the refund and system B licences applied for between 25 November
                                                  1996 and 16 January 1997
                                                               Reduction coefficient     Rate of refund
                                 Product
                                                                   (quantities)        ( ECU/tonne net)
             Tomatoes                                            (no reduction )                 9,19
             Shelled almonds                                     (no reduction )               77,90
             Hazelnuts in shell                                  (no reduction)                91,00
             Shelled hazelnuts                                   (no reduction )             175,60
             Walnuts in shell                                    (no reduction )             1 1 2,90
             Oranges                                             (no reduction)                64,80
             Lemons                                              (no reduction )               62,16
             Table grapes                                                            I
             Apples                                              (no reduction)                30,46
             Peaches and nectarines
                                                                                     I