CELEX: 32000R0010
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 10/2000 of 4 January 2000 on the issue of system B export licences in the fruit and vegetables sector

L 2/64                 EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    5. 1. 2000
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 10/2000
                                                           of 4 January 2000
                          on the issue of system B export licences in the fruit and vegetables sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    overrun will prejudice the proper working of the export
                                                                               refund scheme in the fruit and vegetables sector;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                               (3)   Whereas, to avoid this situation, applications for system
                                                                               B licences for shelled almonds exported after 4 January
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2190/96 of                      2000 should be rejected until the end of the current
14 November 1996 on detailed rules for implementing Council                    export period,
Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards export refunds on fruit
and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
1303/1999 (2), and in particular Article 5(5) thereof,
(1)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2331/                                                  Article 1
        1999 (3), fixes the indicative quantities for system B           Applications for system B export licences for shelled almonds
        export licences other than those sought in the context of        submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2331/
        food aid;                                                        1999, export declarations for which are accepted after 4
                                                                         January 2000 and before 24 January 2000, are hereby rejected.
(2)     Whereas, in the light of the information available to the
        Commission today, there is a risk that the indicative                                        Article 2
        quantities laid down for the current export period for
        shelled almonds will shortly be exceeded; whereas this           This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 January 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 4 January 2000.
                                                                                     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 281, 4.11.1999, p. 3.