CELEX: 32000R1066
Language: en
Date: 2000-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1066/2000 of 19 May 2000 suspending the issue of refund certificates for goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty

20.5.2000             EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 119/9
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1066/2000
                                                           of 19 May 2000
               suspending the issue of refund certificates for goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             Whereas:
                                                                        (1)   The cumulated amounts of the refunds requested for the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                         certificates already issued come to EUR 311 804 543.
Community,                                                                    This sum, when added to the amounts for applications
                                                                              made from 8 to 12 May 2000 and taken on an annual
                                                                              basis, might prevent the Commission from meeting its
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6                      commitments under Article 6b(8) of Regulation (EC) No
December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable                   1222/94.
to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
                                                                        (2)   The issue of the certificates should be suspended, as
products (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
                                                                              provided for in Article 6b(8),
No 2491/98 (2), and in particular the first subparagraph of
Article 8(3) thereof,
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1222/94 of
30 May 1994 laying down common detailed rules for the                                               Article 1
application of the system of granting export refunds on certain         The issue of certificates requested since 8 May 2000 is
agricultural products exported in the form of goods not                 suspended.
covered by Annex II to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing
the amount of such refunds (3), as last amended by Regulation                                       Article 2
(EC) No 701/2000 (4), and in particular Article 6b(6) and (8)
thereof,                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 May 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 19 May 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 136, 31.5.1994, p. 5.
(4) OJ L 83, 4.4.2000, p. 6.