Commission Regulation (EC) No 2605/1999 of 9 December 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 establishing an agricultural product nomenclature for export refunds
L 316/32 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 10. 12. 1999 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2605/1999 of 9 December 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 establishing an agricultural product nomenclature for export refunds THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, (4) Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in cereals (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1253/ 1999 (2), and in particular Article 13 thereof and the corre- sponding provisions of the other regulations on the common organisation of markets in agricultural products, Whereas: (1) (2) (3) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1230/1999 (4), estab- lishes, on the basis of the Combined Nomenclature, an agricultural product nomenclature for export refunds; to facilitate the electronic transmission of the data and so reduce costs, the regulations fixing the export refunds for each sector should be presented in a more uniform manner. To this end, the destinations or stable group- ings of countries common to several market organ- isations should be codified and that codification should be inserted into Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87; in addition to the codes for the destinations or stable groupings of countries, codes for third countries are listed in the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Community's statistics for foreign trade and for trade between the Member States. Sectoral regulations may also contain codes for groupings of countries; the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of all the Management Committees concerned, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 is amended as follows: 1. In the second sentence of Article 1, the word ‘Annex’ is replaced by ‘Annex I’. 2. The following Article 3a is added: ‘Article 3a The destinations or stable groupings of countries common to several market organisations are codified and listed in Annex II. ’ 3. The existing Annex ‘Agricultural product nomenclature’ becomes Annex I. 4. The Annex to this Regulation is inserted as Annex II. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 2000. Article 2 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 9 December 1999. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21. (2) OJ L 160, 26. 6. 1999, p. 18. (3) OJ L 366, 24. 12. 1987, p. 1. (4) OJ L 149, 16. 6. 1999, p. 3. 10. 12. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 316/33 ANNEX ‘ANNEX II Destination codes for export refunds A00 All destinations (third countries, other territories, victualling and destinations treated as exports from the Community). A01 Other destinations. A02 All destinations except for the United States of America. A03 All destinations except for Switzerland. A04 All third countries A05 Other third countries. A10 EFTA countries (European Free Trade Association) Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland. A11 ACP States (African, Caribbean and Pacific States party to the Lomé Convention) Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros (except for Mayotte), Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica, Ethiopia, Fiji Islands, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, Dominican Republic, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Solomon Islands, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Chad, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe. A12 Countries or territories of the Mediterranean Basin Ceuta and Melilla, Gibraltar, Malta, Turkey, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Jordan. A12 OPEC States (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Gabon, Venezuela, Indonesia. Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, A14 ASEAN countries (Association of South-East Asian Nations Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines. A15 Countries of Latin America Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina. A16 SAARC countries (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan. A17 Countries of the EEA (European Economic Area) other than the European Union Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein. A18 CEEC countries (Central and eastern European Countries) Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. A19 NAFTA countries (North-American Free Trade Agreement) United States of America, Canada, Mexico. L 316/34 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 10. 12. 1999 A20 Mercosur countries (Southern Cone Common Market) Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina. A21 Newly industrialised counties of Asia Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong. A22 Dynamic Asian economies Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong. A23 APEC countries (Asia-Pacific economic cooperation) United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand. A24 Commonwealth of Independent States Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajiki- stan, Kyrghyzstan. A25 Non-EU OECD countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, United States of America, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Australian Pacific Territories, New Zealand, New Zealand Pacific Terri- tories. A26 European countries or territories outside the European Union Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Faeroe Islands, Andorra, Gibraltar, Vatican City, Malta, Turkey, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Cyprus. A27 Africa (A28) (A29) Countries or territories of North Africa, other countries of Africa. A28 Countries or territories of North Africa Ceuta and Melilla, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt. A29 Other countries of Africa Sudan, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Principe, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Saint Helena and Dependencies, Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Seychelles and Dependencies, British Indian Ocean Territory, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Mayotte, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho. A30 America (A31) (A32) (A33) North America, Central America and the Antilles, South America. A31 North America United States of America, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon. A32 Central America and the Antilles Mexico, Bermuda, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Anguilla, Cuba, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, British Virgin Islands, Barbados, Montserrat, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles. A33 South America Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Falkland Islands. 10. 12. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 316/35 A34 Asia (A35) (A36) Near and Middle East, other countries of Asia. A35 Near and Middle East Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen. A36 Other countries of Asia Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrghyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines, Mongolia, China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao. A37 Oceania and the polar regions (A38) (A39) Australia and New Zealand, other countries of Oceania and the polar regions. A38 Australia and New Zealand Australia, Australian Pacific Territories, New Zealand, New Zealand Pacific Territories. A39 Other countries of Oceania and the polar regions Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and Dependencies, American Pacific Territories, Wallis and Futuna, Kiribati, Pitcaim, Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa, Northern Marianas, French Polynesia, Federated States of Micronesia (Yap, Kosrae, Chunk, Pohnpei), Marshall Islands, Palau, Polar Regions. A40 Overseas countries of territories (OCTs) French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Dependencies, Wallis and Futuna, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Mayotte, Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Greenland, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, South Sandwich Islands and Dependencies, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena and Dependencies, British Antarctic Territories, British Indian Ocean Territory. A96 A97 Communes of Livigno and Campione d'Italia, Heligoland Victuallina and destinations treated as exports from the Community Destinations referred to in Articles 36, 44 and 45 of Regulation (EC) No 800/1999. ’