CELEX: 31999R0032
Language: en
Date: 1999-01-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 32/1999 of 8 January 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 laying down the reduced agricultural components and additional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1998 to the importation into the Community of goods covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under Agreements with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

9. 1. 1999              EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                    L 5/43
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 32/1999
                                                        of 8 January 1999
                   amending Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 laying down the reduced agricultural
                   components and additional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1998 to
                   the importation into the Community of goods covered by Council Regulation
                        (EC) No 3448/93 under Agreements with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           established by Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 should be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 extended until 30 June 1999;
Community,                                                            Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of                97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating to the
6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements                    introduction of the euro (6), lays down that from 1 January
applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing             1999 every reference in a legal instrument to the ECU
of agricultural products (1), as last amended by Commis-              shall be replaced by a reference to the euro at a rate of
sion Regulation (EC) No 2491/98 (2), and in particular                EUR 1 to ECU 1; whereas, for reasons of clarity, it is
Article 7 thereof,                                                    appropriate to use the term ‘euro' in this Regulation,
                                                                      given that it is applicable from 1 January 1999,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 (3)
laid down the reduced agricultural components and addi-
tional duties applicable from 1 July to 31 December 1998              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
to the importation into the Community of goods covered
by Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under Agreements with                                              Article 1
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 26/1999 of 21                      Regulation (EC) No 1486/98 is amended as follows.
December 1998 adopting autonomous and transitional                    1. In Article 1 and 3 and Annexes I to VI, the date ‘31
measures for Europe Agreements with Lithuania, Latvia                     December 1998' is replaced by ‘30 June 1999'.
and Estonia in certain processed agricultural products (4),
lays down in Annex II, for the period from 1 January to               2. In Annexes I to VI, the term ‘ECU/100 kg' is replaced
30 June 1999, the basic amounts to be taken into consid-                  by ‘EUR/100 kg'.
eration in calculating the reduced agricultural compo-
nents applicable on importation from the countries
covered by that Regulation;                                                                      Article 2
Whereas the basic amounts fixed by Regulation (EC) No                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
26/1999 are identical to those fixed by Council Regula-               publication in the Official Journal of the European
tion (EC) No 2621/97 (5) for the period from 1 July to 31             Communities.
December 1998; whereas therefore the amounts of the
reduced agricultural components and additional duties                 It shall apply from 1 January to 30 June 1999.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 8 January 1999.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                 Martin BANGEMANN
                                                                             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 197, 14.   7. 1998, p. 65.
(4) See page 1 of   this Official Journal.
(5) OJ  L 354, 30.   12. 1997, p. 1.                                  (6) OJ L 162, 19. 6. 1997, p. 1.