CELEX: 32000R0140
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-20
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 140/2000 of 20 January 2000 providing for the rejection of applications for export licences in relation to cereal products

21. 1. 2000            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                       L 16/71
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 140/2000
                                                           of 20 January 2000
                providing for the rejection of applications for export licences in relation to cereal products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              to reject all applications for export licences for this product
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    made on 20 January 2000,
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1253/
1999 (2),                                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1162/95 of                In accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/
23 May 1995 laying down special detailed rules for the                   95, applications for export licences with advance fixing of
application of the system of import and export licences for              refunds for products falling within CN code 1101 00 15 made
cereals and rice (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No              on 20 January 2000 shall be rejected.
1432/1999 (4), and in particular Article 7(3) thereof,
Whereas the quantity covered by applications for advance                                             Article 2
fixing of refunds for flour of common wheat and spelt could
give rise to speculation; whereas it has therefore been decided          This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 January 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 20 January 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 181,  1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 160,  26.6.1999, p. 18.
(3) OJ L 117,  24.5.1995, p. 2.
(4) OJ L 166,  1.7.1999, p. 56.