CELEX: 32000R0162
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-24
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 162/2000 of 24 January 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 2705/1999 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

L 19/22                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                   25. 1. 2000
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 162/2000
                                                           of 24 January 2000
               amending Regulation (EC) No 2705/1999 establishing the standard import values for determining
                                          the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                                           Article 1
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of
                                                                         The standard import values applicable to clementines,
21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the
                                                                         mandarins and similar citrus hybrids originating in certain third
import arrangements for fruit and vegetables (1), as last
                                                                         countries listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2705/1999
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1498/98 (2), and in particular
                                                                         is replaced, as regards the third-country codes indicated in the
Article 4(1) thereof,
                                                                         table in the Annex hereto, by the standard import values listed
Whereas:                                                                 there.
(1)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2705/1999 (3) estab-
        lished a standard import value for determining the entry                                     Article 2
        price of clementines, mandarins and similar citrus
        hybrids originating in certain third countries.                  At the request of the party concerned, the customs office where
                                                                         the import was recorded shall refund part of the customs
(2)     An error has been discovered in the Annex to that
                                                                         duties for the clementines, mandarins and similar citrus hybrids
        Regulation. The Regulation in question should therefore
                                                                         originating in the third countries concerned and released for
        be corrected.
                                                                         free circulation during the period of application of the
(3)     Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 provides              corrected Regulation. Refund applications must be lodged no
        that, where no standard import value is in force for a           later than the last day of the third month following that in
        product for a given origin, the average of the standard          which this Regulation enters into force and must be accompa-
        import values in force for that product is to apply. As a        nied by the declaration of release for free circulation for the
        result, that average should be recalculated if one of its        import concerned.
        component standard import values is corrected.
(4)     Application of the corrected standard import value must                                      Article 3
        be requested by the party concerned so that they are not
        placed retroactively at a disadvantage,                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 January 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 24 January 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66.
(2) OJ L 198, 15.7.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 327, 21.12.1999, p. 13.
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                                                         ANNEX
                                                                                                    (EUR/100 kg)
                    CN code                            Country code              Standard import value
                  0805 20 10                               204                           51,6
                                                           999                           64,3
            0805 20 30, 0805 20 50,                        204                           53,1
            0805 20 70, 0805 20 90                         999                           78,4