CELEX: 31998R0244
Language: en
Date: 1998-01-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 244/98 of 30 January 1998 fixing the refunds applicable to cereal and rice sector products supplied as Community and national food aid

31. 1. 98             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                L 25/9
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 244/98
                                                     of 30 January 1998
                  fixing the refunds applicable to cereal and rice sector products supplied as
                                           Community and national food aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas the general and implementing rules provided
                                                                   for in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 and in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 on export
Community,
                                                                   refunds are applicable mutatis mutandis to the above-
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92               mentioned operations;
of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the
market in cereals (1), as last amended by Commission               Whereas the specific criteria to be used for calculating
Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular the third         the export refund on rice are set out in Article 13 of
subparagraph of Article 13 (2) thereof,                            Regulation (EC) No 3072/95;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of             Whereas the measures provided for this Regulation are in
22 December 1995 on the common organization of the                 accordance with the opinion of the Management
market in rice (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No               Committee for Cereals,
192/98 (4), and in particular Article 13 (3) thereof,
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2681/             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
74 of 21 October 1974 on Community financing of
expenditure incurred in respect of the supply of agricul-
tural products as food aid (5) lays down that the portion of                               Article 1
the expenditure corresponding to the export refunds on             For Community and national food aid operations under
the products in question fixed under Community rules is            international agreements or other supplementary
to be charged to the European Agricultural Guidance and            programmes, and other Community free supply meas-
Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section;                                 ures, the refunds applicable to cereals and rice sector
Whereas, in order to make it easier to draw up and                 products shall be as set out in the Annex.
manage the budget for Community food aid actions and
to enable the Member States to know the extent of                                          Article 2
Community participation in the financing of national
food aid actions, the level of the refunds granted for these       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
actions should be determined;                                      1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 January 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L  126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L  329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(4) OJ L  20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 16.
(5) OJ L  288, 25. 10. 1974, p. 1.
 ---pagebreak--- L 25/10     EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                       31. 1. 98
                                                 ANNEX
        to the Commission Regulation of 30 January 1998 fixing the refunds applicable to cereal
                and rice sector products supplied as Community and national food aid
                                                                       (ECU/tonne)
                                 Product code                  Refund
                               1001 10 00 9400                   0
                               1001 90 99 9000                  16,00
                               1002 00 00 9000                  35,00
                               1003 00 90 9000                  23,00
                               1004 00 00 9400                  29,00
                               1005 90 00 9000                  25,00
                               1006 30 92 9100                 137,00
                               1006 30 92 9900                 137,00
                               1006 30 94 9100                 137,00
                               1006 30 94 9900                 137,00
                               1006 30 96 9100                 137,00
                               1006 30 96 9900                 137,00
                               1006 30 98 9100                 137,00
                               1006 30 98 9900                 137,00
                               1006 40 00 9000                   
                               1007 00 90 9000                  25,00
                               1101 00 15 9100                  23,00
                               1101 00 15 9130                  23,00
                               1102 20 10 9200                  32,26
                               1102 20 10 9400                  27,65
                               1102 30 00 9000                   
                               1102 90 10 9100                  17,96
                               1103 11 10 9200                   0
                               1103 11 90 9200                   0
                               1103 13 10 9100                  41,47
                               1103 14 00 9000                   
                               1104 12 90 9100                  32,44
                               1104 21 50 9100                  23,94
                        NB: The product codes and the footnotes are defined in
                            Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ L 366, 24.
                            12. 1987, p. 1), amended.