EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 30.9.1999 L255/19
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2054/1999
of 29 September 1999
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),andinparticularpoint(a)ofthesecond
subparagraph of Article 18(5) thereof,
(1)Whereas Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpriceson the world market for the products listed in Article1(1)(a)ofthatRegulationandpricesforthoseproductswithin the Community may be covered by an exportrefund;
(2)Whereas Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides thatwhenrefundsonwhiteandrawsugar,undenaturedandexported 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)Whereas the refund on raw sugar must be fixed inrespect of the standard quality; whereas the latter isdefined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No431/68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standardqualityforrawsugarandfixingtheCommunityfrontiercrossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar(
2), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94(3); whereas,
furthermore, this refund should be fixed in accordancewith Article 19(4) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999;whereas candy sugar is defined in Commission Regula-tion (EC) No 2135/95 of 7 September 1995 layingdown detailed rules of application for the grant ofexportrefundsinthesugarsector(
4);whereastherefund
thuscalculatedforsugarcontainingaddedflavouringorcolouring matter must apply to their sucrose contentand, accordingly, be fixed per 1% of the said content;
(4)Whereas the world market situation or the specificrequirements of certain markets may make it necessaryto vary the refund for sugar according to destination;
(5)Whereas,inspecialcases,theamountoftherefundmaybe fixed by other legal instruments;
(6)Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
(7)Whereasitfollowsfromapplyingtherulessetoutaboveto the present situation on the market in sugar and inparticular 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)Whereas the measures provided for in this RegulationareinaccordancewiththeopinionoftheManagementCommittee 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
ThisRegulationshallenterintoforceon30September1999.
ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.
Done at Brussels, 29 September 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105. (4) OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 16.
EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 30.9.1999 L255/20
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 29 September 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar
exported in its unaltered state
Productcode Amountofrefund
—EUR/100kg—
170111909100 43,51 (1)
170111909910 42,64 (1)
170111909950 (2)
170112909100 43,51 (1)
170112909910 42,64 (1)
170112909950 (2)
—EUR/1%ofsucrose×100kg—
170191009000 0,4730
—EUR/100kg—
170199109100 47,30
170199109910 48,67
170199109950 48,67
—EUR/1%ofsucrose×100kg—
170199909100 0,4730
(1) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92%; if the yield is other than 92%,
therefundapplicableiscalculatedinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofArticle 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).