CELEX: 31998R0146
Language: en
Date: 1998-01-21 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 146/98 of 21 January 1998 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

22. 1. 98           ¬ EN ¬            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 17/23
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 146/98
                                                     of 21 January 1998
                                on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      sponding definitive rates shall be considered null and
                                                                 void,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
2190/96 of 14 November 1996 on detailed rules for
implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 as
                                                                                           Article 1
regards export refunds on fruit and vegetables (1), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 610/97 (2), and in par-            1. For A2 export licences for which applications have
ticular Article 3(4) thereof,                                    been submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC)
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 8/98 (3) sets the          No 8/98, the actual date of application referred to in the
indicative refund rates and the indicative quantities for A2     second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC)
export licences, other than those applied for in the             No 2190/96 is hereby set at 22 January 1998.
context of food aid;                                             2. The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall
Whereas, for oranges, tomatoes, lemons and apples, in            be issued at the definitive refund rates and at the per-
view of the economic situation in the various destination        centages for the quantities applied for as indicated in the
groups indicated in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No              Annex to this Regulation.
8/98 and taking account of information received by               3. Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No
operators via their applications for A2 licences, the defini-    2190/96, applications referred to in the first paragraph for
tive refund rates should be set at a different rate from the     rates in excess of the corresponding definitive rates set out
indicative rates; whereas the percentages for the issuing of     in the Annex shall be considered null and void.
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 22 January
2190/96, applications for rates in excess of the corre-          1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 21 January 1998.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Franz FISCHLER
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 292, 15. 11. 1996, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 93, 8. 4. 1997, p. 16.
(3) OJ L 3, 7. 1. 1998, p. 5.
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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                              12                            51 %
        Oranges                                      XYC                               25                            86 %
        Lemons                                          F                              29                           100 %
        Table grapes                                    F                              —                              —
                                                       X                               23                            94 %
        Apples
                                                       Y                                6                            73 %
        (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.
            Z: African countries and territories except South Africa, countries of the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar,
                Oman, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras al Khaimah, Fujairah),
                Kuwait, Yemen), Syria, Iran, Jordan, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia.
            C: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia.
            D: Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
                Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica.
            E: All destinations except Switzerland.
            F: All destinations.