CELEX: 31999R0164
Language: en
Date: 1999-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 164/1999 of 22 January 1999 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

L 18/56              EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 23. 1. 1999
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 164/1999
                                                     of 22 January 1999
                                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 2776/98 (3) sets            No 2776/98, 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 25 January 1999.
context of food aid;                                              2. The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall
Whereas, for tomatoes and apples for destination group            be issued at the definitive refund rates and at the per-
XY in view of the economic situation in the various               centages for the quantities applied for as indicated in the
destination groups indicated in the Annex to Regulation           Annex to this Regulation.
(EC) No 2776/98 and taking account of information                 3. Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/
received by operators via their applications for A2               96, applications referred to in the first paragraph for rates
licences, the definitive refund rates should be set at a          in excess of the corresponding definitive rates set out in
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 23 January
2190/96, applications for rates in excess of the cor-             1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 22 January 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 346, 22. 12. 1998, p. 44.
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                                                                      ANNEX
                                                                                     Definitive                     Percentages
                                                   Destination or
                         Product                                                    refund rates                 for the issuing of
                                               group of destinations (1)
                                                                                  (EUR/tonne net)                     licences
            Tomatoes                                      F                             18                            100 %
            Oranges                                     XYC                             50                              99 %
            Lemons                                        F                             35                            100 %
            Apples                                       XY                             80                            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.
                F: All destinations.