No L 98/2 Official Journal of the European Communities 15. 4. 97 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 641/97 of 14 April 1997 amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 of 28 June 1996 on rules of application (cereals sector import duties) for Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (3, and in particular Article 10 (4) thereof, Whereas provisions on the treatment of cereals imported into the Community are set out in Commission Regula- tion (EC) No 1249/96 (%) Whereas experience in applying the provisions of Regula- tion (EC) No 1249/96 to flint maize imports indicates a need to adjust its provisions on customs control of this product and on the duty reduction to be granted; whereas Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 should therefore be amended; Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 1249/96 is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 2 (5) is replaced by the following: ‘5. Import duties shall be reduced by: — ECU 14 per tonne on standard high quality common wheat, () OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21. () O No L 126, 24. 5. 1996, p. 37. () O] No L 161, 29. 6. 1996, p. 125. — ECU 8 per tonne on malting barley, — ECU 14 per tonne on flint maize meeting the specifications of Annex I. For granting of the reduction the following require- ments must be met: (a) The applicant must enter in box 20 of the import licence the processed product to be made from the cereals; (b) The importer must give a written undertaking along with the import licence application that all the cereals will be processed in line with box 20 of the licence within six months of the date of entry for free circulation. He shall specify the processing location by stating either: — a processing firm or Member State, or — a maximum of five processing plants. Before the goods are consigned for processing a control copy TS shall be made out in the office of customs clearance in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 (*). The information required under (a) above and the name and location of the processing plant shall be given in box 104 of the TS. (c) The importer must lodge with the competent authority a security of ECU 14 per tonne for common wheat and flint maize and ECU 8 per tonne for barley. If however the duty in force on the day of completion of the customs import formalities is less than ECU 14 per tonne for common wheat or flint maize or ECU 8 per tonne for barley the security shall be equal to the duty amount. The security shall be released on production of evidence of the specific final use warranting a quality premium on the price of the basic product mentioned at (a). This evidence, possibly by means of the control copy TS, must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the competent authorities of the Member State of importation that all the cereals imported have been processed into the product indicated at (a).