CELEX: 31997R2319
Language: en
Date: 1997-11-21 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2319/97 of 21 November 1997 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

L 321 /28          I EN I             Official Journal of the European Communities                                22. 11 . 97
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2319/97
                                                     of 21 November 1997
                                   on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       sponding definitive rates shall be considered null and
                                                                   void,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Community,
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
  2190 /96 of 14 November 1996 on detailed rules for
  implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 as                                        Article 1
  regards export refunds on fruit and vegetables ('), as last
  amended by Regulation (EC) No 610/97 (2), and in par­             1.    For A2 export licences for which applications have
  ticular Article 3 (4) thereof,                                   been submitted pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EC)
  Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2186/97 (3) sets           No 2186/97, 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 24 November 1997.
  context of food aid ;
                                                                   2. The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall
 Whereas, for oranges, tomatoes, lemons, table grapes and          be issued at the definitive refund rates and at the per­
  apples, in view of the economic situation in the various         centages for the quantities applied for as indicated in the
 destination groups indicated in the Annex to Regulation           Annex to this Regulation .
 (EC) No 2186/97 and taking account of information
 received by operators via their applications for A2               3.     Pursuant to Article 3 (5) of Regulation (EC) No
 licences, the definitive refund rates should be set at a          2190/96, applications referred to in the first paragraph for
 different rate from the indicative rates; whereas the
                                                                   rates in excess of the corresponding definitive rates set out
                                                                   in 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 22 November
 2190/96, applications for rates in excess of the corre­           1997 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 21 November 1997 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ L 292, 15. 11 . 1996, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 93, 8 . 4. 1997, p. 16.
 ' OJ L 299, 4. 11 . 1997, p. 10 .
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                                                                      ANNEX
                                                                                        Definitive                    Percentages
                                                     Destination or
                        Product                                                       refund rates                for the issuing of
                                                group of destinations (')           (ECU/tonne net)                    licences
            Tomatoes                                        F                              13                            96%
            Oranges                                      XYC                               30                            88 %
            Lemons                                          F                              10                            95 %
            Table grapes                                    F                              15                           100 %
                                                           X                               25                            67 %
            Apples
                                                           Y                                 8                           89 %
            (') The destination codes are defined as follows:
                X: Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faeroes, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgana, 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 .
                Z: African countries and territories except South Africa, countries of the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar,
                   Oman, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras al Khaimah, Fujairah),
                   Kuwait, Yemen), Syria, Iran, Jordan, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia.
                C: Switzerland, Czech Republic , Slovakia.
                D: Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
                   Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica.
                E: All destinations except Switzerland.
                F: All destinations .