CELEX: 32000R1688
Language: en
Date: 2000-07-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1688/2000 of 28 July 2000 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and suspending the issue of export licences

29.7.2000               EN                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                      L 193/53
                                            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1688/2000
                                                               of 28 July 2000
                fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and suspending the issue of export licences
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                 (5)    The world market situation or the specific requirements
                                                                                   of certain markets may make it necessary to vary the
                                                                                   refund for certain products according to destination.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                  (6)    A separate refund should be fixed for packaged long
                                                                                   grain rice to accommodate current demand for the
                                                                                   product on certain markets.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of 22
December 1995 on the common organisation of the market in                   (7)    The refund must be fixed at least once a month; whereas
rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 (2), and                   it may be altered in the intervening period.
in particular the second subparagraph of Article 13(3) and (15)
thereof,
                                                                            (8)    It follows from applying these rules and criteria to the
                                                                                   present situation on the market in rice and in particular
                                                                                   to quotations or prices for rice and broken rice within
Whereas:                                                                           the Community and on the world market, that the
                                                                                   refund should be fixed as set out in the Annex hereto.
(1)      Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 provides that             (9)    For the purposes of administering the volume restric-
         the difference between quotations or prices on the world                  tions resulting from Community commitments in the
         market for the products listed in Article 1 of that Regu-                 context of the WTO, the issue of export licences with
         lation and prices for those products within the                           advance fixing of the refund should be restricted.
         Community may be covered by an export refund.
                                                                            (10)   The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
                                                                                   accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                   Committee for Cereals,
(2)      Article 13(4) of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95, provides
         that when refunds are being fixed account must be taken
         of the existing situation and the future trend with regard
         to prices and availabilities of rice and broken rice on the
         Community market on the one hand and prices for rice
         and broken rice on the world market on the other. The
         same Article provides that it is also important to ensure          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
         equilibrium and the natural development of prices and
         trade on the rice market and, furthermore, to take into
         account the economic aspect of the proposed exports
         and the need to avoid disturbances of the Community                                            Article 1
         market with limits resulting from agreements concluded
         in accordance with Article 300 of the Treaty.
                                                                            The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 of
                                                                            Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 with the exception of those listed
                                                                            in paragraph 1(c) of that Article, exported in the natural state,
(3)      Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1361/76 (3) lays down               shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
         the maximum percentage of broken rice allowed in rice
         for which an export refund is fixed and specifies the
         percentage by which that refund is to be reduced where
         the proportion of broken rice in the rice exported
         exceeds that maximum.                                                                          Article 2
                                                                            The issue of export licences with advance fixing of the refund is
                                                                            suspended.
(4)      Article 13(5) of Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 defines the
         specific criteria to be taken into account when the
         export refund on rice and broken rice is being calcu-
         lated.
                                                                                                        Article 3
(1) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 265, 30.9.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 154, 15.6.1976, p. 11.                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 2000.
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                          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                          Done at Brussels, 28 July 2000.
                                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                                Pedro SOLBES MIRA
                                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                                             ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 28 July 2000 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice and suspending
                                                                 the issue of export licences
                                                                      (EUR/t)                                                           (EUR/t)
                                                            Amount                                                            Amount
       Product code                Destination (1)                                      Product code         Destination (1)
                                                           of refunds                                                        of refunds
    1006 20 11 9000                     01                   95,00                   1006 30 65 9900              01          119,00
    1006 20 13 9000                     01                   95,00                                                04          125,00
    1006 20 15 9000                     01                   95,00
    1006 20 17 9000                      —                     —                     1006 30 67 9100              05          125,00
    1006 20 92 9000                     01                   95,00                   1006 30 67 9900               —             —
    1006 20 94 9000                     01                   95,00
    1006 20 96 9000                     01                   95,00                   1006 30 92 9100              01          119,00
    1006 20 98 9000                      —                     —                                                  02          125,00
    1006 30 21 9000                     01                   95,00                                                03          130,00
    1006 30 23 9000                     01                   95,00                                                04          125,00
    1006 30 25 9000                     01                   95,00                                                05          125,00
    1006 30 27 9000                      —                     —                     1006 30 92 9900              01          119,00
    1006 30 42 9000                     01                   95,00                                                04          125,00
    1006 30 44 9000                     01                   95,00
    1006 30 46 9000                     01                   95,00                   1006 30 94 9100              01          119,00
    1006 30 48 9000                      —                     —                                                  02          125,00
    1006 30 61 9100                     01                  119,00                                                03          130,00
                                        02                  125,00                                                04          125,00
                                        03                  130,00                                                05          125,00
                                        04                  125,00
                                        05                  125,00                   1006 30 94 9900              01          119,00
    1006 30 61 9900                     01                  119,00                                                04          125,00
                                        04                  125,00                   1006 30 96 9100              01          119,00
    1006 30 63 9100                     01                  119,00                                                02          125,00
                                        02                  125,00                                                03          130,00
                                        03                  130,00                                                04          125,00
                                        04                  125,00                                                05          125,00
                                        05                  125,00
    1006 30 63 9900                     01                  119,00                   1006 30 96 9900              01          119,00
                                        04                  125,00                                                04          125,00
    1006 30 65 9100                     01                  119,00
                                        02                  125,00                   1006 30 98 9100              05          125,00
                                        03                  130,00                   1006 30 98 9900               —             —
                                        04                  125,00
                                        05                  125,00                   1006 40 00 9000               —             —
(1) The destinations are identified as follows:
    01 Liechtenstein, Switzerland, the communes of Livigno and Campione d'Italia,
    02 Zones I, II, III, VI, excluding Turkey,
    03 Zones IV, V, VII(c), Canada and Zone VIII excluding Suriname, Guyana and Madagascar,
    04 Destinations mentioned in Article 34 of amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87,
    05 Ceuta and Melilla.
NB: The zones are those defined in the Annex to amended Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2145/92.