CELEX: 31998R2485
Language: en
Date: 1998-11-18
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2485/98 of 18 November 1998 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

L 309/16             EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 19. 11. 98
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2485/98
                                                    of 18 November 1998
                                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/               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
96 of 14 November 1996 on detailed rules for imple-
menting Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards
                                                                                            Article 1
export refunds on fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended
by Regulation (EC) No 1287/98 (2), and in particular               1. For A2 export licences for which applications have
Article 3(4) thereof,                                              been submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC)
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2379/98 (3) sets             No 2379/98, the actual date of application referred to in
the indicative refund rates and the indicative quantities          the second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation
for A2 export licences, other than those applied for in the        (EC) No 2190/96 is hereby set at 19 November 1998.
context of food aid;                                               2. The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall
Whereas, for, oranges, lemons, table grapes and apples for         be issued at the definitive refund rates and at the per-
destination group XY in view of the economic situation             centages for the quantities applied for as indicated in the
in the various destination groups indicated in the Annex           Annex to this Regulation.
to Regulation (EC) No 2379/98 and taking account of                3. Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/
information received by operators via their applications           96, applications referred to in the first paragraph for rates
for A2 licences, the definitive refund rates should be set at      in excess of the corresponding definitive rates set out in
a different rate from the indicative rates; whereas the            the Annex shall be considered null and void.
percentages for the issuing of licences for the quantities
applied for should also be set; whereas the definitive rates
may not be more than double the indicative rates;                                           Article 2
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No            This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 November
2190/96, applications for rates in excess of the cor-              1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 18 November 1998.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 292, 15. 11. 1996, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 178, 23. 6. 1998, p. 11.
(3) OJ L 295, 4. 11. 1998, p. 15.
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                                                                     ANNEX
                                                                                   Definitive                      Percentages
                                                   Destination or
                        Product                                                   refund rates                  for the issuing of
                                              group of destinations (1)
                                                                                (ECU/tonne net)                      licences
           Tomatoes                                      F                            20                             100 %
           Oranges                                     XYC                            50                             100 %
           Lemons                                        F                            40                             100 %
           Table grapes                                  F                            50                             100 %
           Apples                                       XY                            50                             100 %
           (1) The destination codes are defined as follows:
               X: 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.
               Y: 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.
               C: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia.
               E: All destinations except Switzerland.
               F: All destinations.