CELEX: 31998R0432
Language: en
Date: 1998-02-23 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 432/98 of 23 February 1998 concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance fixing of the refund

24. 2. 98             EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 53/17
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 432/98
                                                   of 23 February 1998
                  concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with
                                              advance fixing of the refund
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       422/98 (6), fixes refunds under the procedure provided for
                                                                  in the abovementioned paragraph for 5 000 tonnes;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                        Whereas    the quantities applied for are in excess of the
                                                                  available quantity; whereas it has therefore been decided
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of            to reject applications for export licences made from 19
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the                February   1998;
market in rice (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
192/98 (2), and in particular the second subparagraph of          Whereas, in view of its purpose, this Regulation should
Article 13 (3) thereof,                                           take effect from the day of its publication in the Official
                                                                  Journal of the European Communities,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1162/
95 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 932/97 (4),
and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 7 (4)        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
thereof,
Whereas Article 7 (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/95                                          Article 1
provides, where this paragraph is specifically referred to        Applications for export licences for rice and broken rice
when an export refund is fixed, for an interval of three          with advance fixing of the refund submitted under Regu-
working days between the day of submission of applica-            lation (EC) No 408/98 as amended from 19 February
tions and the granting of export licences with advance            1998 shall be rejected.
fixing of the refund and provides that the Commission is
to fix a uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if                                   Article 2
applications for export licences exceed the quantities
which may be exported; whereas Commission Regulation              This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 February
(EC) No 408/98 (5), as amended by Regulation (EC) No              1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 23 February 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L 20, 21. 1. 1998, p. 16.
(3) OJ  L 117, 24. 5. 1995, p. 2.
(4) OJ  L 135, 27. 5. 1997, p. 2.
(5) OJ  L 206, 1. 8. 1997, p. 45.                                 (6) OJ L 52, 21. 2. 1998, p. 25.