L 353/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 24. 12. 97 amending -Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 on rules of application for import and COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2616/97 of 16 December 1997 export licences in the beef and veal sector THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal (!), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2321/97 (3), and in paricular Articles 9 and 13 thereof, Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 of 26 June 1995 on rules of application for import and export licences in the beef and veal sector and repcaling Regulation (EEC) No 2377/80 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2469/97 (%), provides that all exportation of products must, for an export refund to be claimed, require the issuing of an export licence with advance fixing of the refund; Whereas to ensure the sound management of exports and especially of frozen beef from intervention stocks intended for export to certain third countries without a refund, all exportation of the products referred to in Atticle 1 (1) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 or falling within CN codes 0102 10, 1602 50 31 to 1602 50 80 and 1602 90 69 should be made subject therefore to the issue of an export licence; Whereas, as a result of this new requirement, certain tech- nical amendments will need to be made in particular as regards the period of validity of licences, the amount of the security and the notifications from the Member States; Whereas the Management Committee for Beef and Veal has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman, : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 1445/95 is hereby amended as follows: () OJ L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24. () OJ L 322, 25. 11. 1997, p. 25. () OJ L 143, 27. 6. 1995, p. 35. () O] L 341, 12. 12. 1997, p. 8. 1. Article 7 is replaced by the following: Article 7 All exportation of products listed in Article 1 (1) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 or of CN codes 0102 10, 1602 50 31 to 1602 50 80 and 1602 90 69 shall require the issuing of an export licence with advance fixing of the refund.” 2. Article 8 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 8 1. The period of validity of licences for exports of products for which a refund is claimed and which are subject to the issuing of an export licence with advance fixing of the refund shall be: — 75 days for products falling within CN codes 0102 and 1602, — 30 days for other products, from the date of issue within the meaning of Article 21 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88. The validity of licences for exports of beef and veal issued under the procedure laid down in Article 44 of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88 shall however expire at the end of the fourth month following the date of issue within the meaning of Article 21.(2) of that Regulation. 2. The period of validity of licences for exports for which no refund is claimed shall be: — 45 days for exports of frozen beef from interven- tion, — 60 days for other products, from the date of issue within the meaning of Article 21 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88. Licence applications and licences shall contain in box 20 the words: — ‘Intervention products without refund (Regulation (EC) No 2616/97) in the case of the licences referred to in the first indent, — ‘Without refund’ in the case of the licences referred to in the second indent. 3. Licence applications and licences shall contain in box 15 the product description, in box 16 the 12-figure code of the agricultural product export refund nomen- clature and in box 7 the country of destination.