CELEX: 31999R2026
Language: en
Date: 1999-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2026/1999 of 22 September 1999 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

L 250/10               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                      23. 9. 1999
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2026/1999
                                                          of 22 September 1999
                                       on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               (3)    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
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
14 November 1996 on detailed rules for implementing Council
Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards export refunds on fruit
and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                                              Article 1
1303/1999 (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) No 1926/
(1)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1926/1999 (3)               1999, the actual date of application referred to in the second
        sets the indicative refund rates and the indicative quant-        subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96 is
        ities for A2 export licences, other than those applied for        hereby set at 23 September 1999.
        in the context of food aid;
                                                                          2.    The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall be
(2)     Whereas, for lemons and apples for destinations in                issued at the definitive refund rates and at the percentages for
        geographical zone F02, in view of the economic situ-              the quantities applied for as indicated in the Annex to this
        ation in the various destination groups indicated in the          Regulation.
        Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1926/1999 and taking                  3.    Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96,
        account of information received by operators via their            applications referred to in the first paragraph for rates in excess
        applications for A2 licences, the definitive refund rates         of the corresponding definitive rates set out in the Annex shall
        should be set at a different rate from the indicative rates;      be considered null and void.
        whereas the percentages for the issuing of licences for
        the quantities applied for should also be set; whereas the                                     Article 2
        definitive rates may not be more than 50 % more than
        the indicative rates;                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 September 1999.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 22 September 1999.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 292, 15.11.1996, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 155, 22.6.1999, p. 29.
(3) OJ L 238, 9.9.1999, p. 20.
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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                                         A01                               20                                 100 %
            Oranges                                    F01, F02, F05                           50                                   88 %
            Lemons                                           A01                               40                                 100 %
            Table grapes                                     A01                               25                                 100 %
            Apples                                           F01                               40                                   91 %
                                                             F02                               30                                   74 %
            Peaches and nectarines                           A21                               —                                       —
            (1) The destination codes are defined as follows:
                A01: All destinations.
                A21: All destinations other than Switzerland.
                F01: 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.
                F02: 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.
                F05: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia.