EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 8.10.1999 L262/19
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2145/1999
of 7 October 1999
fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound feedingstuffs
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
HavingregardtoCouncilRegulation(EEC)No1766/92of30
June 1992 on the common organization of the market incereals(
1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1253/
1999(2), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,
(1)Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpricesontheworldmarketfortheproductslistedinArticle1ofthatRegulationandpricesforthoseproductswithinthe Community may be covered by an export refund;
(2)WhereasRegulation(EC)No1517/95of29June1995laying down detailed rules for the application of Regu-lation (EEC) No 1766/92 as regards the arrangementsfor the export and import of compound feedingstuffsbased on cereals and amending Regulation (EC) No1162/95 laying down special detailed rules for theapplicationofthesystemofimportandexportlicencesfor cereals and rice(
3) in Article 2 lays down general
rules for fixing the amount of such refunds;
(3)Whereasthatcalculationmustalsotakeaccountofthecereal products content; whereas in the interest ofsimplification, the refund should be paid in respect oftwocategoriesof‘cerealproducts’,namelyformaize,themost commonly used cereal in exported compoundfeeds and maize products, and for ‘other cereals’, thesebeingeligiblecerealproductsexcludingmaizeandmaizeproducts;whereasarefundshouldbegrantedinrespectof the quantity of cereal products present in thecompound feedingstuff;(4)Whereas furthermore, the amount of the refund mustalso take into account the possibilities and conditionsforthesaleofthoseproductsontheworldmarket,theneed to avoid disturbances on the Community marketand the economic aspect of the export;
(5)Whereas,however,infixingtherateofrefunditwouldseemadvisabletobaseitatthistimeonthedifferenceinthe cost of raw inputs widely used in compoundfeedingstuffs as the Community and world markets,allowing more accurate account to be taken of thecommercial conditions under which such products areexported;
(6)Whereas the refund must be fixed once a month;whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
(7)Whereas the measures provided for in this RegulationareinaccordancewiththeopinionoftheManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Theexportrefundsonthecompoundfeedingstuffscoveredby
Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 and subject to Regulation (EC)No 1517/95 are hereby fixed as shown in the Annex to thisRegulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 October 1999.
ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.
Done at Brussels, 7 October 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 147, 30.6.1995, p. 51.
EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 8.10.1999 L262/20
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 7 October 1999 fixing the export refunds on cereal-based compound
feedingstuffs
Product code benefiting from export refund(1):
230910119000, 230910139000, 230910319000,
230910339000, 230910519000, 230910539000,230990319000, 230990339000, 230990419000,230990439000, 230990519000, 230990539000.
(EUR/t)
Cerealproducts(2) Amountofrefund(2)
Maize and maize products:
CN codes 07099060, 07129019, 1005, 110220,
110313, 11032940, 11041950, 110423,19041010
43,62
Cereal products(2) excluding maize and maize prod-
ucts 31,98
(1) TheproductcodesaredefinedinSector5oftheAnnextoCommissionRegulation(EEC)No3846/87(OJL366,24.12.1987,
p. 1), amended.
(2) For the purposes of the refund only the starch coming from cereal products is taken into account.
Cereal products means the products falling within subheadings 07099060 and 07129019, Chapter 10, and headings
Nos1101,1102,1103and1104(unprocessedandnotreconstitutedexcludingsubheading110430)andthecerealscontentofthe products falling within subheadings 19041010 and 19041090 of the combined nomenclature. The cereals content inproductsundersubheadings19041010and19041090ofthecombinednomenclatureisconsideredtobeequaltotheweightof this final product.
No refund is paid for cereals where the origin of the starch cannot be clearly established by analysis.