EN OfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities 17.6.1999 L150/8
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1242/1999
of 16 June 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 EuropeanCommunity,
HavingregardtoCouncilRegulation(EEC)No1785/81
of 1 June 1981 on the common organization of themarkets in the sugar sector(
1), as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1148/98(2), and in
particularpoint(a)ofthefirstsubparagraphofArticle19(4) thereof,
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
providesthatthedifferencebetweenquotationsorpricesontheworldmarketfortheproductslistedinArticle1(1)(a)ofthatRegulationandpricesforthoseproductswithinthe Community may be covered by an export refund;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that
when refunds 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 17a of that Regulation;whereas the same Article provides that the economicaspectoftheproposedexportsshouldalsobetakenintoaccount;
Whereastherefundonrawsugarmustbefixedinrespect
of the standard quality; whereas the latter is defined inArticle 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 of 9April1968determiningthestandardqualityforrawsugarand fixing the Community frontier crossing point forcalculatingcifpricesforsugar(
3),asamendedbyRegula-
tion (EC) No 3290/94(4); whereas, furthermore, this
refundshouldbefixedinaccordancewithArticle17a(4)ofRegulation(EEC)No1785/81;whereascandysugarisdefinedinCommissionRegulation(EC)No2135/95of7September1995layingdowndetailedrulesofapplicationfor the grant of export refunds in the sugar sector(
5);
whereas the refund thus calculated for sugar containingaddedflavouringorcolouringmattermustapplytotheirsucrosecontentand,accordingly,befixedper1%ofthesaid content;
Whereas the world market situation or the specific
requirementsofcertainmarketsmaymakeitnecessarytovary the refund for sugar according to destination;
Whereas,inspecialcases,theamountoftherefundmay
be fixed by other legal instruments;
Whereas the refund must be fixed every two weeks;
whereas it may be altered in the intervening period;
Whereasitfollowsfromapplyingtherulessetoutabove
to 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;
WhereasthemeasuresprovidedforinthisRegulationare
in accordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Cereals,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
TheexportrefundsontheproductslistedinArticle1(1)
(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81, undenatured andexported in the natural state, are hereby fixed to theamounts shown in the Annex hereto.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 June 1999.
(1) OJ L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(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.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 16 June 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
to the Commission Regulation of 16 June 1999 fixing the export refunds on white sugar and
raw sugar exported in its unaltered state
Productcode Amountofrefund
EUR/100kg 
170111909100 45,77 (1)
170111909910 44,63 (1)
170111909950 (2)
170112909100 45,77 (1)
170112909910 44,63 (1)
170112909950 (2)
EUR/1%ofsucrose×100kg 
170191009000 0,4975
EUR/100kg 
170199109100 49,75
170199109910 48,52
170199109950 48,52
EUR/1%ofsucrose×100kg 
170199909100 0,4975
(1) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92%; if the yield is other than 92%,
the refund applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of
Article 17a (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81.
(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).