COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3223/93 of 25 November 1993 on statistical information relating to the payment of export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2071/92 (2), and in particular Article 28 thereof, and to the corresponding provisions of the other regulations on the common organization of markets referred to in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 of 11 November 1980 laying down general rules for granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty and the criteria for fixing the amounts of such refunds (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3381/90 (4),
Whereas Article 17 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 and the corresponding provisions of the other regulations on the common organization of markets referred to in the second citation of this Regulation provide for the granting of export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80, lays down, for certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty, general rules for the granting of export refunds and the criteria for fixing their amount;
Whereas it is essential for the Commission, in order to be able to monitor satisfactorily measures adopted concerning export refunds granted on agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty, to have at its disposal certain statistical information; whereas such information should therefore be transmitted to it by the competent authorities of the Member States;
Whereas, provisions concerning the communication of the statistical information in question laid down by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1762/89 (5) must be amended; whereas for reasons of clarity that Regulation should be replaced;
Whereas this Regulation should be applied with effect from the first day of the month in which the EAGGF Guarantee 1993/94 year begins;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the relevant management committees,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Member States shall, at the latest by the end of the month following each month of the calendar year, communicate the necessary statistical information to the Commission at the following address:
Commission of the European Communities,
Directorate General III,
Non-Annex II Trade Regime.
200 rue de la Loi,
B-1049 Brussels, Belgium.
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation:
- 'groups of goods' means the groups listed in column (1) of Annex A,
- 'basic agricultural products' means the products listed in Annex B,
- 'refunds granted' means refunds which have been granted in the manner referred to in Chapter 2 or 3 of Title 2 or in Article 47 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 (6).
Article 3
The necessary statistical information referred to in Article 1 shall comprise:
- the volume of exports of goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 having received export refunds the previous month, expressed in tonnes or other units of measure, indicating unit, broken down according to group of goods,
- within each group of goods referred to in the first indent, the amount of the refunds granted the previous month for each of the basic agricultural products, expressed in national currency,
- within each group of goods referred to in the first indent, the quantities of each of the basic products to which the refunds relate expressed in tonnes or other units of measure, indicating unit.
Article 4
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation.
Regulation (EEC) No 1762/89 is repealed.
Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply to refunds paid from 1 October 1993 onwards.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 25 November 1993.