EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 26.6.1999 L162/57
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1377/1999
of 25 June 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)No1766/92
of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of themarket in cereals(
1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 923/96(2), and in particular Article
13(3) thereof,
Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92
providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpricesontheworldmarketfortheproductslistedinArticle1ofthatRegulationandpricesforthoseproductswithintheCommunity may be covered by an export refund;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1517/95 of 29 June 1995
layingdowndetailedrulesfortheapplicationofRegula-tion (EEC) No 1766/92 as regards the arrangements forthe export and import of compound feedingstuffs basedon cereals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1162/95laying down special detailed rules for the application ofthesystemofimportandexportlicencesforcerealsandrice(
3)inArticle2laysdowngeneralrulesforfixingthe
amount of such refunds;
Whereas that calculation must also take account of the
cerealproductscontent;whereasintheinterestofsimpli-fication, the refund should be paid in respect of twocategoriesof‘cerealproducts',namelyformaize,themostcommonlyusedcerealinexportedcompoundfeedsandmaize products, and for ‘other cereals', these beingeligiblecerealproductsexcludingmaizeandmaizeprod-ucts;whereasarefundshouldbegrantedinrespectofthequantity of cereal products present in the compound
feedingstuff;
Whereasfurthermore,theamountoftherefundmustalso
takeintoaccountthepossibilitiesandconditionsforthesaleofthoseproductsontheworldmarket,theneedtoavoid disturbances on the Community market and theeconomic aspect of the export;
Whereas, however, in fixing the rate of refund it would
seemadvisabletobaseitatthistimeonthedifferenceinthecostofrawinputswidelyusedincompoundfeeding-stuffs as the Community and world markets, allowingmore accurate account to be taken of the commercialconditions under which such products are exported;
Whereastherefundmustbefixedonceamonth;whereas
it may be altered in the intervening period;
WhereasthemeasuresprovidedforinthisRegulationare
in accordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The export refunds on the compound feedingstuffs
coveredbyRegulation(EEC)No1766/92andsubjecttoRegulation(EC)No1517/95areherebyfixedasshowninthe Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1999.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 25 June 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 126, 24.5.1996, p. 37.
(3) OJ L 147, 30.6.1995, p. 51.
EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 26.6.1999 L162/58
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation 25 June 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 58,16
Cerealproducts(2)excludingmaizeandmaizeprod-
ucts 34,50
(1) The product codes are defined in Sector 5 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ L 366,
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(unprocessedandnotreconstituted)excludingsubheading110430)andthecerealscontentoftheproductsfallingwithinsubheadings19041010and19041090ofthecombinednomenclature.Thecerealscontentinproductsundersubheadings19041010and19041090ofthecombinednomenclatureisconsideredtobeequaltotheweight of this final product.
No refund is paid for cereals where the origin of the starch cannot be clearly established by analysis.