CELEX: 31999R0612
Language: en
Date: 1999-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 612/1999 of 19 March 1999 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

L 75/28               EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 20. 3. 1999
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 612/1999
                                                      of 19 March 1999
                                 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas, pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                   2190/96, applications for rates in excess of the cor-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              responding definitive rates shall be considered null and
Community,                                                         void,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2190/
96 of 14 November 1996 on detailed rules for imple-                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
menting Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards
export refunds on fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended                                 Article 1
by Regulation (EC) No 1287/98 (2), and in particular
Article 3(4) thereof,                                              1. For A2 export licences for which applications have
                                                                   been submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC)
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 458/1999 (3), as             No 458/1999, the actual date of application referred to in
amended by Regulation (EC) No 499/1999 (4), sets the               the second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation
indicative refund rates and the indicative quantities for A2       (EC) No 2190/96 is hereby set at 22 March 1999.
export licences, other than those applied for in the
                                                                   2. The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall
context of food aid;
                                                                   be issued at the definitive refund rates and at the per-
Whereas, for tomatoes, oranges, lemons and apples for              centages for the quantities applied for as indicated in the
destination group XY in view of the economic situation             Annex to this Regulation.
in the various destination groups indicated in the Annex           3. Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/
to Regulation (EC) No 458/1999 and taking account of               96, applications referred to in the first paragraph for rates
information received by operators via their applications           in excess of the corresponding definitive rates set out in
for A2 licences, the definitive refund rates should be set at      the Annex shall be considered null and void.
a different rate from the indicative rates; whereas the
percentages for the issuing of licences for the quantities                                  Article 2
applied for should also be set; whereas the definitive rates
may not be more than double the indicative rates;                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 March 1999.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 19 March 1999.
                                                                             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 55, 3. 3. 1999, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 59, 6. 3. 1999, p. 22.
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                                                                      ANNEX
                                                                                    Definitive                      Percentages
                                                   Destination or
                         Product                                                   refund rates                  for the issuing of
                                               group of destinations (1)
                                                                                   (EUR/t net)                        licences
            Tomatoes                                      F                            40                             100 %
            Oranges                                     XYC                            80                             100 %
            Lemons                                        F                            50                             100 %
            Apples                                        X                            40                             100 %
                                                          Y                            40                             100 %
            (1) The destination codes are defined as follows:
                X: Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faeroe Islands, 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 and Japan.
                F: All destinations.