CELEX: 31997R1818
Language: en
Date: 1997-09-19 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1818/97 of 19 September 1997 on issuing A2 export licences for fruit and vegetables

L 257/22             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 20 . 9 . 97
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1818 /97
                                                   of 19 September 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 1744/97 (3) sets            No 1744/97, 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 22 September 1997.
context of food aid;                                              2. The licences referred to in the first paragraph shall
Whereas, for oranges and apples, in view of the economic          be issued at the definitive refund rates and at the per­
situation in the various destination groups indicated in          centages for the quantities applied for as indicated in the
the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1744/97 and taking                Annex to this Regulation .
account of information received by operators via their
                                                                  3 . Pursuant to Article 3 (5) of Regulation (EC) No
applications for A2 licences, the definitive refund rates         2190/96, applications referred to in the first paragraph for
should be set at a different rate from the indicative rates;
                                                                  rates in excess of the corresponding definitive rates set out
whereas the percentages for the issuing of licences for the       in the Annex shall be considered null and void.
quantities applied for should also be set; whereas the defi­
nitive 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 September
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, 19 September 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.
  1 OJ L 244, 6. 9. 1997, p. 12.
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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                              19                           100 %
            Oranges                                      XYC                               35                             83 %
            Lemons                                          F                              20                             83 %
            Table grapes                                    F                              25                             90 %
                                                           X                               30                           100 %
            Apples
                                                           Y                                 5                          100 %
            Peaches and nectarines                          E                              —                               —
            (') 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 .
                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 .