CELEX: 32000R0206
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 206/2000 of 27 January 2000 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

28. 1. 2000            EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                          L 23/45
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 206/2000
                                                            of 27 January 2000
                                       on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               (3)    pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96,
                                                                                 applications for rates in excess of the corresponding
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            definitive rates shall be considered null and void,
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2190/96 of                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
14 November 1996 on detailed rules for implementing Council
Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards export refunds on fruit
and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                                              Article 1
1303/1999 (2), and in particulars Article 3(4) thereof,                   1.    For A2 export licences for which applications have been
                                                                          submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2782/
Whereas:
                                                                          1999 and Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 67/2000, the actual
(1)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2782/1999 (3),                      date of application referred to in the second subparagraph of
        amended by Commission Regulations (EC) Nos 41/                    Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96 is hereby set at 28
        2000 (4) and 67/2000 (5) set the indicative refund rates          January 2000.
        and the indicative quantities for A2 export licences,             2.    The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall be
        other than those applied for in the context of food aid;          issued at the definitive refund rates and at the percentages for
(2)     for lemons and apples, in view of the economic situation          the quantities applied for as indicated in the Annex to this
        in the various destination groups indicated in the Annex          Regulation.
        to Regulations (EC) No 2782/1999 and 67/2000 and                  3.    Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/96,
        taking account of information received by operators via           applications referred to in the first paragraph for rates in excess
        their applications for A2 licences, the definitive refund         of the corresponding definitive rates set out in the Annex shall
        rates should be set at a different rate from the indicative       be considered null and void.
        rates; whereas the percentages for the issuing of licences
        for the quantities applied for should also be set; whereas                                     Article 2
        the definitive rates may not be more than 50 % more
        than the indicative rates;                                        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, 27 January 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  292, 15.11.1996, p. 12.
(2) OJ L  155, 22.6.1999, p. 29.
(3) OJ L  334, 28.12.1999, p. 26.
(4) OJ L  5, 8.1.2000, p. 43.
(5) OJ L  9, 13.1.2000, p. 11.
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                                                                         ANNEX
                                                                                        Definitive                          Percentages
                                                    Destination or
                      Product                                                         refund rates                       for the issuing of
                                               group of destinations (1)
                                                                                    (EUR/tonne net)                           licences
        Tomatoes                                         A00                               20                                 100 %
        Oranges                                          A00                               50                                 100 %
        Lemons                                           A00                               50                                 100 %
        Apples                                           F01                               35                                   72 %
                                                         F02                               29                                   91 %
        (1) The destination codes are defined as follows:
            A00: All destinations.
            F01: Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faeroes, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
                 Croatia, Slovenia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Malta.
            F02: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine,
                 destinations mentioned in Article 34 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87, as amended.