CELEX: 31998R1565
Language: en
Date: 1998-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1565/98 of 20 July 1998 concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance fixing of the refund

L 203/10              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 21. 7. 98
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1565/98
                                                      of 20 July 1998
                  concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance
                                                   fixing of the refund
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       percentage reduction should therefore be fixed for export
                                                                  licence applications submitted on 17 July 1998;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                        Whereas, in view of its purpose, this Regulation should
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 of            take effect from the day of its publication in the Official
22 December 1995 on the common organisation of the                Journal of the European Communities,
market in rice (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
192/98 (2),                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1162/
95 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 444/98 (4),                                  Article 1
and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 7(4)
                                                                  Applications for export licences for rice and broken rice
thereof,
                                                                  with advance fixing of the refund submitted under Regu-
Whereas Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/95                lation (EC) No 1346/98 on 17 July 1998 shall give rise to
provides, where this paragraph is specifically referred to        the issue of licences for the quantities applied for to
when an export refund is fixed, for an interval of three          which a percentage reduction of 89,13 % has been
working days between the day of submission of applica-            applied.
tions and the granting of export licences with advance
fixing of the refund and provides that the Commission is                                   Article 2
to fix a uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if
applications for export licences exceed the quantities            Applications for export licences for rice and broken rice
which may be exported; whereas Commission Regulation              submitted from 20 July 1998 shall not give rise to the
(EC) No 1346/98 (5) fixes refunds under the procedure             issue of export licences under Regulation (EC) No 1346/
provided for in the abovementioned paragraph for 275              98.
tonnes;
                                                                                           Article 3
Whereas the quantities applied for on 17 July 1998 are in
excess of the available quantity of 275 tonnes; whereas a         This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July 1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 20 July 1998.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L 20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 16.
(3) OJ  L 117, 24. 5. 1995, p. 2.
(4) OJ  L 56, 26. 2. 1998, p. 12.
(5) OJ  L 184, 27. 6. 1998, p. 12.