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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1762/89
of 20 June 1989
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 Economic Community,
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 of the Council of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 763/89 (2),
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 of the Council of 29 October 1975 on the common organizazion of the market in cereals (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1213/89 (4),
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 of the Council of 29 October 1975 on the common organizazion of the market in eggs (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1235/89 (6),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in rice (7), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1219/89 (8),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the market in the sugar sector (9), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1069/89 (10),
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 citations 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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 (11), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3209/88 (12), 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 Article 28 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 provides that the Member States and the Commission are to communicate to each other the information necessary for the implementation of that Regulation and that rules for the communication and distribution of such information are to be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 30 of the Regulation; whereas identical measures are laid down in the corresponding provisions of the other Regulations on the common organization of markets referred to in the citations of this Regulation;
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 the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the relevant management committees,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The competent authorities of the Member States shall, at the latest by the end of month, after each quarter of the calendar year, communicate the necessary statistical information to the Commission at the following address:
Commission of the European Communities,
Division III/B/2,
200 rue de la Loi,
B-1049 Brussels.
Article 2
1. For the purposes of this Regulation 'groups of products' shall mean the groups listed in column (1) of the Annex.
For the purposes of paragraph 2, 'refunds granted' shall mean 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 (13).
2. The necessary statistical information referred to in Article 1 shall comprise:
- the amount of the refunds granted the previous quarter on exports of goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80, and the volume of such exports in tonnes or other units of measure, indicating the unit, broken down by group of products,
- within each of the groups of products referred to in the first indent, the amount of the refunds granted the previous quarter for each of the basic agricultural products referred to in Annex A to Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80, and the quantities thereof on which that amount was granted.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
Is shall apply to refunds granted from 1 January 1990 onwards.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 June 1989.