CELEX: 32000R1716
Language: en
Date: 2000-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1716/2000 of 1 August 2000 suspending from 14 to 30 September 2000 the lodging of export licence applications for products in the sugar sector

2.8.2000               EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                        L 196/7
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1716/2000
                                                            of 1 August 2000
               suspending from 14 to 30 September 2000 the lodging of export licence applications for products
                                                           in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              (2)     Since the above limit could also be exceeded as a result
                                                                                 of the export of sugars used in certain products
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            processed from fruit and vegetables, the issue of export
Community,                                                                       licences conferring entitlement to refunds on those
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13                      products should also be suspended.
September 1999 on the common organisation of the markets                 (3)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Commission Regula-                   accordance with the opinion of the Management
tion (EC) No 1527/2000 (2),                                                      Committee for Sugar,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1464/95 of
27 June 1995 on special detailed rules for the application of            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
the system of import and export licences in the sugar sector (3),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1148/98 (4), and in
                                                                                                      Article 1
particular Article 9a(1) thereof,
                                                                         The lodging of applications for export licences for the products
Whereas:                                                                 listed in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 confer-
(1)     The Agreement on Agriculture resulting from the                  ring entitlement to payment of a refund fixed in accordance
        Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, in             with Article 18(5)(a) of that Regulation is hereby suspended
        accordance with Article 300 of the Treaty, contains              from 14 to 30 September 2000.
        limits on the quantity and value of exports subsidised by        The first paragraph shall also apply to licence applications
        the Community. The issue of export licences requested            lodged in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No
        for products in the sugar sector for the second half of          2315/95 (5).
        September 2000 is likely to result in the value limits
        agreed in Article 9 of the Agreement on Agriculture                                           Article 2
        being exceeded for the 1999/2000 marketing year. The
        lodging of licence applications for that period should           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
        therefore be suspended.                                          publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 1 August 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                      Pedro SOLBES MIRA
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L  175, 14.7.2000, p. 59.
(3) OJ L  144, 28.6.1995, p. 14.
(4) OJ L  159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.                                          (5) OJ L 233, 30.9.1995, p. 70.