EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 19.4.2001 L109/50
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 757/2001
of 18 April 2001
fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
HavingregardtoCouncilRegulation(EC)No2038/1999of13
September1999onthecommonorganisationofthemarketsinthesugarsector(
1),asamendedbyCommissionRegulation
(EC) No 1527/2000(2), and in particular point (a) of the
second subparagraph of Article 18(5) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides
thatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpricesontheworldmarketfortheproductslistedinArticle1(1)(a)ofthatRegulationandpricesforthoseproductswithintheCommunity may be covered by an export refund.
(2)Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides that whenrefunds on white and raw sugar, undenatured andexported in its unaltered state, are being fixed accountmust be taken of the situation on the Community andworldmarketsinsugarandinparticularofthepriceandcost factors set out in Article 19 of that Regulation;whereas the same Article provides that the economicaspectoftheproposedexportsshouldalsobetakenintoaccount.
(3)Therefundonrawsugarmustbefixedinrespectofthestandard quality; the latter is defined in Article 1 ofCouncil Regulation (EC) No 431/68 of 9 April 1968determining the standard quality for raw sugar andfixingtheCommunityfrontiercrossingpointforcalcu-latingcifpricesforsugar(
3),asamendedbyRegulation
(EC)No3290/94(4);furthermore,thisrefundshouldbe
fixedinaccordancewithArticle19(4)ofRegulation(EC)No 2038/1999; candy sugar is defined in CommissionRegulation (EC) No 2135/95 of 7 September 1995layingdowndetailedrulesofapplicationforthegrantof
export refunds in the sugar sector(
5); the refund thus
calculated for sugar containing added flavouring orcolouring matter must apply to their sucrose contentand, accordingly, be fixed per 1% of the said content.
(4)Theworldmarketsituationorthespecificrequirementsof certain markets may make it necessary to vary therefund for sugar according to destination.
(5)Inspecialcases,theamountoftherefundmaybefixedby other legal instruments.
(6)The refund must be fixed every two weeks; whereas itmay be altered in the intervening period.
(7)It follows from applying the rules set out above to thepresent situation on the market in sugar and in partic-ular to quotations or prices for sugar within theCommunity and on the world market that the refundshould be as set out in the Annex hereto.
(8)The measures provided for in this Regulation are inaccordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Sugar,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
TheexportrefundsontheproductslistedinArticle1(1)(a)of
Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999, undenatured and exported inthenaturalstate,areherebyfixedtotheamountsshownintheAnnex hereto.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 April 2001.
ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.
Done at Brussels, 18 April 2001.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 59.
(3) OJ L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105. (5) OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 19.4.2001 L109/51
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 18 April 2001 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar
exported in its unaltered state
Productcode Destination Unitofmeasurement Amountofrefund
170111909100 A00 EUR/100 kg 36,89 (1)
170111909910 A00 EUR/100 kg 35,37 (1)
170111909950 A00 EUR/100 kg (2)
170112909100 A00 EUR/100 kg 36,89 (1)
170112909910 A00 EUR/100 kg 35,37 (1)
170112909950 A00 EUR/100 kg (2)
170191009000 A00 EUR/1%ofsucrose ×net100 kg
ofproduct0,4010
170199109100 A00 EUR/100 kg 40,10
170199109910 A00 EUR/100 kg 41,37
170199109950 A00 EUR/100 kg 41,37
170199909100 A00 EUR/1%ofsucrose ×net100 kg
ofproduct0,4010
(1) Applicabletorawsugarwithayieldof92%;iftheyieldisotherthan92%,therefundapplicableiscalculatedinaccordancewiththe
provisions of Article 19 (4) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999.
(2) Fixing suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2689/85 (OJ L 255, 26.9.1985, p. 12), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
3251/85 (OJ L 309, 21.11.1985, p. 14).
NB:Theproductcodesandthe‘A’seriesdestinationcodesaresetoutinCommissionRegulation(EEC)No3846/87(OJ
L 366, 24.12.1987, p. 1) as amended.
The numeric destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2032/2000 (OJ L 243, 28.9.2000,
p. 14).