CELEX: 31998R2133
Language: en
Date: 1998-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2133/98 of 5 October 1998 concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance fixing of the refund

6. 10. 98             EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 L 269/11
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2133/98
                                                    of 5 October 1998
                  concerning applications for export licences for rice and broken rice with advance
                                                   fixing of the refund
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       for export licence applications submitted on 1 October
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             1998;
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 last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2072/98 (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)
thereof,                                                          Applications for export licences for rice and broken rice
Whereas Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1162/95                with advance fixing of the refund submitted under Regu-
provides, where this paragraph is specifically referred to        lation (EC) No 2058/98 on 1 October 1998 shall give rise
when an export refund is fixed, for an interval of three          to the issue of licences for the quantities applied for to
working days between the day of submission of applica-            which a percentage reduction of 14,68 % has been
tions and the granting of export licences with advance            applied.
fixing of the refund and provides that the Commission is
to fix a uniform percentage reduction in the quantities if                                 Article 2
applications for export licences exceed the quantities
which may be exported; whereas Commission Regulation              Applications for export licences for rice and broken rice
(EC) No 2058/98 (5) fixes refunds under the procedure             submitted from 2 October 1998 shall not give rise to the
provided for in the abovementioned paragraph for 3 000            issue of export licences pursuant to Regulation (EC) No
tonnes;                                                           2058/98.
Whereas the quantities applied for on 1 October 1998 are                                   Article 3
in excess of the available quantity of 3 000 tonnes;
whereas a percentage reduction should therefore be fixed          This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 October 1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 5 October 1998.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.
(2) OJ  L 265, 30. 9. 1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ  L 117, 24. 5. 1995, p. 2.
(4) OJ  L 56, 26. 2. 1998, p. 12.
(5) OJ  L 264, 29. 9. 1998, p. 36.