THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in cereals ( 1 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1900/87 ( 2 ), and in particular Articles 16 (6) and 24 thereof,

Whereas Article 5 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 ( 3 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2223/86 ( 4 ), stipulates that a system of fixing the refund in advance is to be applied in the case of cereal products used in the production of goods covered by that Regulation;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1760/83 ( 5 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 349/86 ( 6 ), lays down special detailed rules for the application of the system of advance-fixing certificates; whereas Article 3 (a) of that Regulation allows for the description of more than one product to be inserted in section 12 of the advance-fixing certificate;

Whereas under the common commercial policy it has been decided that the Community's exports of pasta falling within heading No 19.03 of the Common Customs Tariff to the United States of America should consist in part of products to which inward processing traffic arrangements have been applied, and in part of products on which export refunds are granted; whereas it is necessary in this connection that advance-fixing certificates merely show the goods to be exported as pasta;

Whereas the Commission must have available as rapidly as possible all the information it needs to assess the likely trend of pasta exports to the United States of America; whereas it must be possible for this information to serve as the basis for certain decisions designed to prevent an inappropriate increase in the quantities of cereal sector basic products for which advance-fixing certificates are issued for their export in the form of pasta to the United States of America; whereas there should therefore be a waiting period before certificate applications are accepted;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

section 20 of the application for the advance-fixing certificate and the certificate itself referred to in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1760/83 shall indicate only that the products fall within subheadings 1902 11 00 and 1902 19 of the combined nomenclature; section 7 shall be completed ‘United States of America’ or ‘other than United States of America’. The certificate shall carry an obligation to export as indicated.

— the quantities of cereal sector basic products for which advance-fixing certificates were applied for on the previous working day for the purpose of export to the United States of America in the form of pasta falling within subheadings 1902 11 00 and 1902 19 of the combined nomenclature,

— the quantities of pasta falling within subheadings 1902 11 00 and 1902 19 of the combined nomenclature for which the rate of the export refund was fixed in advance, the date on which the declaration of export of the pasta to the United States of America was accepted by the relevant customs authorities, and the date on which the used advance-fixing certificate was delivered.