CELEX: 31996R1509
Language: en
Date: 1996-07-29 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1509/96 of 29 July 1996 on the issuing of export licences for fruit and vegetables without advance fixing of the refund

No L 189/88        fENl                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                30. 7. 96
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1509/96
                                                           of 29 July 1996
                     on the issuing of export licences for fruit and vegetables without advance fixing
                                                            of the refund
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         tomatoes exported after 2 August 1996 should be rejected
                                                                      up to the end of the current period;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,                                                         Whereas, in order for them not to be included in the
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72               calculations made by the Commission pursuant to
  of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                    Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1488/95, those
  market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by              applications must not be communicated to the Commis­
  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1363/95 (2), and in parti­            sion;
  cular Article 26 (11 ) thereof,                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
  Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1 121 /96 (3),                in accordance with the opinion of the Management
  fixes the indicative quantities laid down for the issue of          Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
  export licences without advance fixing of the refund other
  than those applied for in the context of food aid;
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
  Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
  1488/95 of 28 June 1995, on implementing rules for
  export refunds on fruit and vegetables (4), as last amended                                 Article 1
  by Regulation (EC) No 2702/95 f5), provides that where
  there is an overrun of the indicative quantities, the excess        For tomatoes, the applications for export licences without
  quantities are to be deducted;                                     advance fixing of the refund referred to in Article 5 of
                                                                     Regulation (EC) No 1488/95, for which the export decla­
  Whereas, in the light of information now available to the          ration for the products was accepted after 2 August 1996
  Commission, the indicative quantities laid down for the            and before 1 October 1996, are hereby rejected.
  current period for tomatoes have already been exceeded;
 whereas that overrun will probably result in a reduction of         Notwithstanding Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No
 the indicative quantity for the following period; whereas           1488/95, those applications shall not be included in
 that reduction would be prejudicial to exports followed by          communications to the Commission.
 applications for licences without advance fixing of the
 refund during that following period;
                                                                                              Article 2
 Whereas, in order to avoid that situation, the applications
 for licences without advance fixing of the refund for               This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 July 1996.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 29 July 1996.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No  L  118,  20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 2)  OJ No  L 132,   16. 6. 1995, p. 8.
P)   OJ No  L 149,   22. 6. 1996, p. 11 .
(<)  OJ No  L 145,   29. 6. 1995, p. 68.
(0   OJ No  L 280,   23. 11 . 1995, p. 30.