31972R0101

30 Official Journal of the European Communities

No L 12/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 15.1.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 101/72 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 January 1972

on Community transit documents issued for goods which on exportation to third countries are eligible for a refund under the common agricultural policy

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ Community territory otherwise than by rail in the MUNITIES, course of a Community transit operation . The office in question shall impose its stamp in the part marked Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 'Space reserved for general purposes' on the back of European Economic Community ; Copies Nos 2 and 3 .

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No . 2. Where Copies Nos 2 and 3 do not bear the 542/691 of 18 March 1969 on Community transit, stamp provided for in paragraph 1 , the office of and in particular Article 58 thereof; destination shall without delay inform the office of departure through which, as shown in section 45 or Whereas, in order to prevent possible abuses in the 46, the consignment left Community territory, application of the common agricultural policy, it has providing any information necessary to identify the consignment . been found necessary to provide for additional measures with regard to goods eligible for a refund on exportation to third countries and which are Customs clearance of the consignment at the office of carried under the Community transit procedure; destination shall not, particularly under the procedure applicable to Community goods, be held Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation up merely because of the absence of the stamp . are in accordance with the Opinion of the Committee on Community Transit ; 3 . Upon receipt of a No 3 Copy not bearing the stamp required under paragraph 1 , the office of departure shall, before discharging the Community HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : transit document, investigate the matter.

Article 1 Article 2 1 . Copies Nos 2 and 3 of the Community transit documents issued for goods which on exportation to This Regulation shall enter into force on the fifteenth third countries are eligible for a refund under the day following its publication in the Official Journal common agricultural policy must be presented for of the . European Communities and shall apply to stamping to the customs office of departure from the transit operations commencing after its entry into Community when the consignment leaves force .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels, 14 January 1972. For the Commission

The President

Franco M. MALFATTI

1 OJ No L 77, 29.3.1969, p . 1 .