CELEX: 32000R0404
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 404/2000 of 23 February 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 2455/1999 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables

L 51/8                 EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    24. 2. 2000
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 404/2000
                                                          of 23 February 2000
               amending Regulation (EC) No 2455/1999 establishing the standard import values for determining
                                          the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                                             Article 1
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 of
21 December 1994 on detailed rules for the application of the            The standard import values applicable to tomatoes originating
import arrangements for fruit and vegetables (1), as last                in certain third countries listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC)
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1498/98 (2), and in particular             No 2455/1999 is replaced, as regards the third-country codes
Article 4(1) thereof,                                                    indicated in the table in the Annex hereto, by the standard
                                                                         import values listed there.
Whereas:
(1)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 2455/1999 (3) estab-
        lished a standard import value for determining the entry                                       Article 2
        price of tomatoes originating in certain third countries.
                                                                         At the request of the party concerned, the customs office where
(2)     An error has been discovered in the Annex to that                the import was recorded shall refund part of the customs
        Regulation. The Regulation in question should therefore          duties for the tomatoes originating in the third countries
        be corrected.                                                    concerned and released for free circulation during the period of
(3)     Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 3223/94 provides              application of the corrected Regulation. Refund applications
        that, where no standard import value is in force for a           must be lodged no later than the last day of the third month
        product for a given origin, the average of the standard          following that in which this Regulation enters into force and
        import values in force for that product is to apply. As a        must be accompanied by the declaration of release for free
        result, that average should be recalculated if one of its        circulation for the import concerned.
        component standard import values is corrected.
(4)     Application of the corrected standard import value must                                        Article 3
        be requested by the party concerned so that they are not
        placed retroactively at a disadvantage,                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 February 2000.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 23 February 2000.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 66.
(2) OJ L 198, 15.7.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 299, 20.11.1999, p. 9.
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                                                ANNEX
                                                                                          (EUR/100 kg)
                 CN code                   Third country code          Standard import value
               0702 00 00                         204                          36,6
                                                  999                          69,2