Official Journal L 101 Volume 40 of the European Communities 18 April 1997
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ISSN 0378-6978 Official Journal L 101 Volume 40 of the European Communities 18 April 1997 English edition Legislation Contents I Acts whose publication is obligatory * Council Regulation ( EC) No 669/97 of 14 April 1997 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas and ceilings , establishing Community surveillance for certain fish and fishery products originating in the Faroe Islands , defining detailed provisions for amending and adapting these measures and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1983/95 1 * Commission Regulation (EC) No 670/97 of 17 April 1997 amending for the second time Regulation ( EC) No 413/97 adopting exceptional support meas ures for the market in pigmeat in the Netherlands 12 * Commission Regulation ( EC) No 671/97 of 17 April 1997 amending Regula tion (EC) No 2659/94 on detailed rules for the granting of private aid for Grana Padano , Parmigiano-Reggiano and Provolone cheeses 14 * Commission Regulation ( EC) No 672/97 of 17 April 1997 laying down detailed rules governing the grant of private storage aid for Pecorino Romano cheese 15 * Commission Regulation (EC) No 673/97 of 17 April 1997 laying down detailed rules governing the grant of private storage aid for Kefalotyri and Kasseri cheeses 18 * Commission Regulation (EC) No 674/97 of 17 April 1997 laying down detailed rules for the granting of private storage aid for long-keeping cheeses 21 Commission Regulation (EC) No 675/97 of 17 April 1997 suspending advance fixing of export refunds on certain cereal and rice products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty 24 Commission Regulation (EC) No 676/97 of 17 April 1997 determining the extent to which applications lodged in April 1997 for import rights in respect of frozen beef intended for processing may be accepted Price : ECU 25 (Continued overleaf) Acts whose titles are printed in light type are those relating to day-to-day management of agricultural matters, and are generally valid for a limited period. EN The titles of all other Acts are printed in bold type and preceded by an asterisk. Contents (continued) Commission Regulation (EC) No 677/97 of 17 April 1997 limiting the term of validity of export licences for certain products processed from cereals 26 Commission Regulation (EC) No 678/97 of 17 April 1997 fixing the rates of the refunds applicable to certain cereal and rice-products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty 28 Commission Regulation (EC) No 679/97 of 17 April 1997 providing for the rejection of applications for export licences in relation to products falling within the beef and veal sector 31 Commission Regulation (EC) No 680/97 of 17 April 1997 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables 32 Commission Regulation (EC) No 681 /97 of 17 April 1997 amending representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector 34 Commission Regulation (EC) No 682/97 of 17 April 1997 fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on cereals 36 Commission Regulation (EC) No 683/97 of 17 April 1997 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs 38 Commission Regulation ( EC) No 684/97 of 17 April 1997 fixing the export refunds on products processed from cereals and rice 40 Commission Regulation (EC) No 685/97 of 17 April 1997 altering the export refunds on beef 42 II Acts whose publication is not obligatory Commission 97/252/EC : * Commission Decision of 25 March 1997 drawing up provisional lists of third country establishments from which the Member States authorize imports of milk and milk products for human consumption (') 46 (') Text with EEA relevance EN 18 . 4. 97 IEN Official Journal of the European Communities No L 101 / 1 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION ( EC) No 669/97 of 14 April 1997 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas and ceilings , establishing Community surveillance for certain fish and fishery products originating in the Faroe Islands , defining detailed provisions for amending and adapting these measures and repealing Regulation ( EC) No 1983/95 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION , products and aquaculture (2) is at least equal to the reference price set, or to be set, by the Community for the products or categories of products concerned; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof, (4) Whereas, for reasons of simplification , provision should be made to empower the Commission to give effect, following receipt of the opinion of the Customs Code Committee set up by Article 247 of Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , Regulation ( EEC) No 2913/92 (3), to necessary amendments and technical adaptations to the Annexes to this Regulation arising from amend ments of the combined nomenclature and Taric ( 1 ) Whereas Articles 3 and 8 of the Agreement between codes and to adaptations of volume , periods and the European Community, of the one part, and the quota rates arising from decisions by the Council or Government of Denmark and the Home Govern by the Commission ; ment of the Faroe Islands , of the other part, signed on 6 December 1996 ('), provide for the abolition of customs duties applicable to imports into the (5) Whereas, for the same reasons , provision should be Community of certain fish and fishery products made for this procedure to be applied in cases where listed in Protocol 1 attached to the said Agreement; the abovementioned Agreement is amended to the extent that the agreed amendments specify the products eligible for tariff quotas or subject to tariff ceilings or to statistical surveillance , quota-volumes, (2) Whereas the abolition is subject to Community tariff duties and tariff periods , and any eligibility criteria; quotas and ceilings and , for some of these products, Community statistical surveillance ; whereas the said Community tariff quotas and ceilings in respect of ( 6) Whereas the Agreement provides for tariff quotas, products originating in the Faroe Islands should tariff ceilings and statistical surveillance for an in therefore be opened for the volumes indicated definite period ; whereas , therefore , to make imple respectively in Annexes I and II to this Regulation mentation of the measures concerned more efficient and Community statistical surveillance established in and simpler, this Regulation should apply on a respect of the products listed in Annex III thereto ; multiannual basis ; (3) Whereas the preferential rates of duty indicated in (7) Whereas equal and continuous access to the quotas Annexes I , II and III apply only where the free-at in respect of the products likely to benefit from the frontier price determined by the Member States in Community tariff quotas listed in Annex I should be accordance with Article 22 of Council Regulation ensured for all Community importers and the rates (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common organization of the market in fishery (2) OJ No L 388 , 31 . 12 . 1992, p . 1 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation ( EC) No 3318/94 (OJ No L 350 , 31 . 12 . 1994, p . 15). (') OJ No L 53 , 22 . 2. 1997, p. 2 . 0 OJ No L 302 , 19 . 10 . 1992, p. 1 . No L 101 /2 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 4. 97 of duty laid down for the quotas should be applied Islands shall be suspended at the levels and within the consistently to all imports of the products in ques limits of the Community tariff quotas specified therein . tion in all Member States until the quotas are exhausted ; Article 2 (8) Whereas the Community should take the decision to open tariff quotas in the execution of its inter The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be adminis national obligations; whereas , to ensure the efficiency tered by the Commission , which may take any appro of a common administration of these quotas , there is priate administrative measure to ensure efficient opera no reason why the Member States should not be tion . authorized to draw from the quota-volumes the necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports ; Article 3 whereas this method of administration does , however, require close cooperation between the Where an importer enters a product covered by this Member States and the Commission, which must be Regulation for free circulation in a Member State accom able to monitor the rate at which the quotas are used panied by: up and inform the Member States accordingly; — a request for preferential treatment, and (9) Whereas, in respect of products listed in Annex II — a movement certificate , complying with the rules laid and subject to Community tariff ceilings, Com down in the Protocol concerning the definition of the munity surveillance may be effected by charging concept of originating products and methods of ad imports of these products against the ceilings at ministrative cooperation annexed to Decision Community level as and when the products are 97/ 126/EC (4), presented at customs and declared for free circula tion ; whereas this method of administering the and his declaration is accepted by the customs authorities , ceilings should enable customs duties to be restored the Member State concerned shall, by notifying the as soon as the ceilings in question are reached at Commission accordingly, draw a quantity from the quota Community level ; concerned to satisfy the requirement . ( 10) Whereas this method of administering the ceilings Applications for drawings from the quotas shall indicate calls for close and especially speedy cooperation the date on which the declarations were accepted and between the Member States and the Commission , shall be sent to the Commission forthwith .