Commission Regulation (EC) No 1431/2002

of 2 August 2002

altering the export refunds on beef

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal(1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2345/2001(2), and in particular Article 33(12) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The export refunds on beef were fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 934/2002(3).

(2) The negotiations on the adoption of additional concessions, held within the framework of the Europe Agreements between the European Community and the associated Central and Eastern European Countries, aim in particular to liberalise trade in products covered by the common organisation of the market in beef and veal. Hungary should be removed from the list of destinations giving rise to the grant of a refund.

(3) The export refunds must be amended as a result,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 934/2002 is amended as follows:

1. Article 4 is replaced by: "Article 4

The fact that no refund has been fixed for exports to Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Hungary shall not be considered to mean that there is a differentiated refund."

2. Destinations B00 and B03 are replaced by: "B00: all destinations (third countries, other territories, victualling and destinations treated as exports from the Community) with the exception of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Hungary.

B03: Ceuta, Melilla, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Andorra, Gibraltar, Vatican City, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the communes of Livigno and Campione d'Italia, Helgoland, Greenland, Cyprus, stores and provisions (destinations referred to in Articles 36 and 45 and, if appropriate, in Article 44 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/1999, as amended (OJ L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 11))."

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 August 2002.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 2 August 2002.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.

(2) OJ L 315, 1.12.2001, p. 29.

(3) OJ L 144, 1.6.2002, p. 25.