CELEX: 31998R1997
Language: en
Date: 1998-09-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1997/98 of 18 September 1998 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

19. 9. 98            EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 257/5
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1997/98
                                                    of 18 September 1998
                                on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       responding definitive rates shall be considered null and
                                                                  void,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2190/              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
96 of 14 November 1996 on detailed rules for imple-
menting Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards
                                                                                           Article 1
export refunds on fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended
by Regulation (EC) No 1287/98 (2), and in particular              1. For A2 export licences for which applications have
Article 3(4) thereof,                                             been submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC)
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1875/98 (3) sets            No 1875/98, the actual date of application referred to in
the indicative refund rates and the indicative quantities         the second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation
for A2 export licences, other than those applied for in the       (EC) No 2190/96 is hereby set at 21 September 1998.
context of food aid;                                              2. The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall
Whereas, for tomatoes, oranges, lemons and apples for             be issued at the definitive refund rates and at the per-
destination group X in view of the economic situation in          centages for the quantities applied for as indicated in the
the various destination groups indicated in the Annex to          Annex to this Regulation.
Regulation (EC) No 1875/98 and taking account of in-              3. Pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2190/
formation received by operators via their applications for        96, applications referred to in the first paragraph for rates
A2 licences, the definitive refund rates should be set at a       in excess of the corresponding definitive rates set out in
different rate from the indicative rates; whereas the             the Annex shall be considered null and void.
percentages for the issuing of licences for the quantities
applied for should also be set; whereas the definitive rates
may not be more than double the indicative rates;                                          Article 2
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No           This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 September
2190/96, applications for rates in excess of the cor-             1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 18 September 1998.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 292, 15. 11. 1996, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 178, 23. 6. 1998, p. 11.
(3) OJ L 243, 2. 9. 1998, p. 3.
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                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                Definitive                      Percentages
                                                Destination or
                     Product                                                   refund rates                  for the issuing of
                                           group of destinations (1)
                                                                             (ECU/tonne net)                      licences
        Tomatoes                                      F                            30                             100 %
        Oranges                                     XYC                            30                               97 %
        Lemons                                        F                            10                             100 %
        Table grapes                                  F                            25                             100 %
                                                      X                            24                             100 %
        Apples
                                                      Y                                                             
        Peaches and nectarines                        E                                                             
        (1) The destination codes are defined as follows:
            X: 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.
            Y: 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.
            C: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia.
            E: All destinations except Switzerland.
            F: All destinations.